poet | translator | editor @asymptotejrnl. THEATER OF NO MISTAKES (@Anhinga_Press ) New work: @BlackWarriorRev @interimpoetics @KenyonReview online (she | they)
Edmonton & New York
Joined April 2014
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Saturday night's showing of GO WHERE LIGHT IS is almost sold out!
The show runs for 3 evenings, March 16-18 at 7:30 PM. Get your tickets! eventbrite.ca/e/go-where-lig…
#yeg #yegarts
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launching at #awp23. the first of its kind. an anthology of some of the best contemporary translators of poetry from North America & UK. Table 1323. @DonMeeChoi @JohannesGoranss @ErinMoure @zoeskoulding @PoetKimHyesoon @daneltro1
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We are all the more fortunate to now have, for the first time, an English translation of Colombian poet Raúl Gómez Jattin work in ALMOST OBSCENE thanks to the translator duo of @kmhedeen and @oliviamlott: tinyurl.com/42uv8c5u
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“There’s a rawness, an honesty, and an urgent need of poetry that is both captivating and heartbreaking.”
@LitMeg interviews @kmhedeen and @oliviamlott, the translators of ALMOST OBSCENE by Colombian poet Raúl Gómez Jattin, for the @asymptotejrnl blog:
asymptotejournal.com/blog/20…
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Forthcoming from #ActionBooks in 2025!
Thrilled to have new translations from W&E in the latest issue of @Gulf_Coast alongside so much exciting work. Pick up a copy to read the rest of this sequence. Thank you to @nickrattner & the whole GC team!
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#OldEnglish #WOTD: getæl-cræft, m.n: arithmetic (literally ‘number-craft’ or ‘computation-craft’). (yeh-TAL-KRAFT / jɛ-ˈtæl-ˌkræft) Image: Boethius’ De institutione arithmetica; France, mid 9th-early 10th century; @laBnF Latin 10251, f. 41r.
ALT Medieval manuscript page with a series of shapes (triangles, squares, pentagons and hexagons) with Roman numerals marked on different parts of the shapes; below is writing in Latin.
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#motherworld by #DestinyHemphill
#preorder today via #ActionBooks
"that brightdark joy that is grief’s marrow"
— @23cschwartz
"These poems feel godly"
— @biancastone
"to be revered"
— Metta Sáma
"one of my favorite poets writing today"
— Tyree Daye
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Andrea Abi Karam and Kay Gabriel, eds. We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics b-ok.cc/book/10996482/bdc8ce #bibliotuit
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"Doubt itself is a belief" #Farsi poems by Ava Koohbor
"plotting and planning out decades ahead/ comes to nothing" asymptotejournal.com/article…
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Thank you to @action__books for uplifting Peruvian poetry and to JC Aguero for trusting me with his work.
New #ActionFokus! In #Enemigo, language strays from the cannibalistic just enough to question the hierarchies of death. Jose Carlos Agüero’s #poetry addresses memory as a joint exercise felt in every part of our bodies. Translated by @Alonso99
actionbooks.org/2022/12/acti…
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The 2022 bpNichol chapbook award goes to Last by Arleen Paré (2021), published by @baselinepress. baselinepress.ca/last-arleen…
Congratulations, Arleen!
Many thanks to Alice Burdick and Greg Santos for their amazing work in judging the award this year.
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#OldEnglish #WOTD: hyge, m.n: heart, mind, soul. (HUE-yuh / ˈhy-jə)
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Kareem on Kyrie:
“There’s little hope that he will change because he’s insulated by fame and money and surrounded by yes-people. There is no motivation to learn how to distinguish propaganda from facts. All that’s left is for the world to decide how it should respond to him.”
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Am quite amused to find two double page spreads in Harper’s Bazaar in November 1967 given over to ‘Poetry-As-Object’ and ‘Concrete Poetry’ respectively ….along with some
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The market is hungry for fearless stories about unchallenged male infidelity and cruel Canadian winters