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25 Mar 2025
To pull
a strand of hair
from the bathtub
until you
pull her out
by the scalp
⊛ Three poems by Emilian Galaicu-Păun, translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Rareșa Galaicu ⊛
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23 Mar 2025
All my missing pieces, grievances bundled together, all my mess
⌯ A poem by Turgut Uyar, translated from Turkish by Eylül Doğanay ⌯
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5 Mar 2025
I’ll be an out-and-out person in two days
In two days, you can fasten up my mouth and leave it behind the door
▨ A poem by Alireza Nouri, translated from Farsi by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari (@modarres_s37506) ▨
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13 Feb 2025
We didn’t hear a sound. We slept on our bellies,
then our backs. Our dreams gave off scents of sheepskin
and milk. They bloomed with chicory on the hillside.
⩊ A poem by Irina Yevsa, translated from the Russian by Jamie Olson ⩊
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29 Jan 2025
The day must begin again
with eyes awakened in cold.
꩜ A poem by Carmen Castellote, translated from the Spanish by Robin Munby (@RobMunb) ꩜
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21 Jan 2025
what used to live
as a single point is now becoming a line,
stronger from hour to hour and crossing
every border shaded in by others.
⧝ From Issue 4, a poem by Aleš Debeljak, translated from the Slovenian by Andrew Zawacki & Aleš Debeljak ⧝
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29 Dec 2024
literature in translation should be the biggest section of any bookstore tbh
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22 Dec 2024
I said many words. I’m a loner, I’m brave. I’m scrawny, but I’ve got charms to compensate for that.
≜ Two poems by Kim Yurim, translated from Korean by Megan Sungyoon ≜
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9 Dec 2024
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.
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27 Nov 2024
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-…
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27 Nov 2024
What to do, what to say
To cleanse the body of all its hungers?
⊹ Three poems by Simon Johannin, translated from French by Cory Stockwell (@cory_stockwell) ⊹
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20 Nov 2024
The name of the world is ocean,
ceaseless blue,
the thing that moves—
⛮ Three poems by Laura Pugno (@laura_pugno), translated from the Italian by Julia Nelsen ⛮
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31 Oct 2024
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! 🎃👻💀🧙♀️🧙
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24 Oct 2024
Waiting
I live in this place
of things …
⧔ Excerpts from The Trees in Succession, by Stéphane Bouquet, translated from French by Kenneth Reveiz ⧕
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9 Oct 2024
“Why do you want at all costs to be considered an exception?”
∾ An excerpt from TO SIT ON THE EARTH: A MEMOIR by @tobie_nathan, translated from French by @JoyceZonana with Janet Lee ∾
TO SIT ON THE EARTH comes out this December from @seagullbooks !
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27 Sep 2024
On your head being pushed beneath the surface, on and on again...
꠪ Three poems from from O by Judith Kiros, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson with Judith Kiros @kiracecilia_ ꠪
O came out yesterday on @worldpoetrybook !
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16 Sep 2024
how to begin to explain
that the heat here is preferable to the one at home
∾ Two poems by Leanne Ellul (@LeanneEllul), translated from Maltese by Helena Camilleri ∾
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30 Aug 2024
"His date of birth is only safe to put forward in the plural."
✾ From Issue 12, an excerpt from FARAWAY THE SOUTHERN SKY (@versobooks) by Joseph Andras, translated from French by Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits) ✾
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