Thrilled to share the PEN America 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Longlist with Gabriella Fee and Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto for the English translation of DOLORE MINIMO (Saturnalia Books, 2022).

Congratulations to Gabriella, Giovanna, Saturnalia, and our fellow longlisted authors, translators, and publishers: https://pen.org/literary-awards/2023-pen-america-longlists/

#translation #poetry

Ooh, if you buy The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays NOW from the University of Iowa Press site, you can use promo code TAS25 for 25% off!

https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/american-sonnet

So grateful to Stephanie Burt, Kiki Petrosino, Beth Ann Fennelly & Shane McCrae for spending time with this book before its publication.

The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays ships January 12, 2023
Pre-order now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-american-sonnet-an-anthology-of-poems-and-essays-dora-malech/18484251?ean=9781609388713

DOLORE MINIMO’s first Goodreads review calls these “excellent, heart-stopping poems by Vivinetto” and “an outstanding Italian to English translation.” If you enjoy the book, drop your own review. 🙂

#BookReview #poetry #translation
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61468375-dolore-minimo?from_search=true&from_srp=jfrtHwIU4P&qid=2

It is heartbreaking to share this beautiful poem from this brilliant book in this context, but I share it in the hope that it reaches someone who needs it today. It’s the title poem from James Davis’s CLUB Q, published by Waywiser Press as winner of the 15th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2020.

( Hashtags below, for those searching:
#ClubQ #lgbt #TransDayOfRemembrance )

#nyc folks, it takes a lot for me to leave a 12-week-old baby for even a night, but this is it! Muldoon’s Picnic! Tomorrow at the #Irish #Arts Center (Nov 14, 7:30 pm).

Tickets: https://irishartscenter.org/event/muldoons-picnic-november-2022

“This…event—curated & presented by Pulitzer Prize-winning #poet & #songwriter Paul Muldoon—combines #music, #prose & #poetry, & high commentary & low comedy with an evolving lineup of world-class guests & house band Rogue Oliphant.”

#DMVArea folks, hope to see you here TOMORROW:
An Afternoon of Poetry in #Translation with Nancy Naomi Carlson, Gabriella Fee, Cynthia Hogue, and Dora Malech.
Nov. 12, 2-3 pm @ The Writer’s Center

Details & registration: https://www.writer.org/event/poetry-in-translation/

Launching books in translation by Khal Torabully, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto & Nicole Brossard

#poetry #writing #WritingCommunity