Circumference (@CircMag) header
Circumference (@CircMag) profile picture

A biannual magazine of translation and international culture, founded in 2003.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined May 2012
Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)Photo by Circumference (@CircMag)
Circumference retweeted
literature in translation should be the biggest section of any bookstore tbh
6
112
13
954
35,383
In the spirit of the season, you can now enjoy 40% off our titles with the coupon HOLIDAY40 (thru 12/14). Our tiny team will work tirelessly to bundle your orders up before the end of the month! Happy reading and happy holidays, from all of us at the Archipelago office.
3
34
13
254
59,779
I'm very grateful to @CircMag for publishing my translations of three poems by Simon Johannin, from his 2022 collection La Dernière saison du monde (published by @EditionsAllia): circumferencemag.com/choose-…
3
3
336
Thinking of last year at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery when Elizabeth Willis and @PoetKimHyesoon read at the same Poetry Project event. Thanks again to @CircMag for giving home to my early version of Kim Hyesoon’s <Witch-type Poet> Happy Halloween y’all! 🎃👻💀🧙‍♀️🧙
5
16
879
I'm celebrating International Translation Day by translating.
1
12
2
132
6,106
Circumference retweeted
Come out Friday, 8/23 to help us celebrate Issue 12! Readings by: @Tiddlebits, @mayadamayadamay, Emma Lloyd, Julieta Vittore, and @nsglastonbury for @kiracecilia_
9
1
18
4,402
Circumference retweeted
Hello! I’m back here to mark the publication of A BLIND SALMON, tusán/Chinese(-)Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt’s first book-length poetry collection in English. This is a bittersweet occasion—Julia passed away from cancer in March. store.deepvellum.org/product…
2
28
1
83
9,273
Really excited that three poems I translated by Maricela Guerrero are up on @CircMag online -- "water on water that hastens and overflows..." circumferencemag.com/guerrer… @papelcontante
2
3
248
Circumference retweeted
Elena Kostyuchenko’s @mirrorsbreath account of being poisoned, “How They Tried to Kill Me,” on this week’s This American Life, read by the translator (me) thisamericanlife.org/826/unp…
2
18
1
52
7,633
Circumference retweeted
new @Orland_solis translations up at @CircMag
For every bundle produced reminds one of the effort and struggle of arms that scattered it from the baskets. ⭒ Four poems by Orland Agustin Solis, translated from Hiligaynon by Eric Abalajon ⭒ circumferencemag.com/only-st…
5
7
2,240
Avant-garde poet, cultural critic, and Putin dissenter, Lev Rubinstein died at age 76, after being struck by a car while crossing the street in Moscow. Born in 1947 in Moscow, Lev Rubinstein is considered one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism.
1
4
5
400
I am truly grateful to share that my project of translating @PoetKimHyesoon’s “Thus spoke n’t” has been awarded 2024 Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you @NEAarts. Honored to be among such amazing group of translators. arts.gov/impact/literary-art…
19
30
3
202
25,465
Circumference retweeted
Two of my poems have been published in Circumference Magazine (@CircMag) in late 2023, translated by dear Mete Özel (@Metezel) and Jeffrey Kahrs. The journey of my words continues... Thanks to everyone who laboured.
2
11
1,587
¡En @CircMag aparecen unos poemas míos en traducción de mi querida Allana Noyes! Forman parte de mi libro Kús, una mirada a la colonización que funde voces, registros poéticos o epistolares, citas y notas en una composición experimental. Pueden leer en: circumferencemag.com/an-anim…
4
6
447
Circumference retweeted
Belated thanks to @CircMag for opening the new issue with a trio of YE Hui's poems & my translation that begins with "[t]he soul crawls" & ends with "sparkling, heavy / like mercury." Please consider supporting this beautiful 20-year old magazine! circumferencemag.com
1
12
345
“Little magazines . . . invite readers to unthink what they know and to broaden their ideas of what an international Republic of Letters might look like.” Daniel Simon celebrates the publications that enlarge the scope of world literature. worldliteraturetoday.org/202…
11
27
3,055
I have translations of my hero Bai Juyi's poems out today at Circumference Magazine (@CircMag). They are, I would like to think, both charming and mind-expanding. Let me know how they move you: circumferencemag.com/ive-got…
1
5
83
3,197
Circumference retweeted
We are now OPEN for submissions through September 25th!✨Submit your #translations here: circumferencemag.submittable…
9
15
2,949