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We are thrilled to announce that At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems by Wang Jiaxin, translated from Chinese by John Balcom, has been named a finalist for the prestigious PEN Translation Award! 🏆
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We must share these powerful words from Oleksandra Matviichuk, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of Ukraine’s Centre for Civil Liberties, delivered at the UA-MED Heal Ukraine 2025 Conference at Harvard University (November 7–8, 2025).
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Jo-Ann Mort talks about her debut collection, A Precise Chaos — 40 years in the making.
In this video, she reflects on her lifelong journey as a poet and activist: finally publishing her first book of poems at age 69.
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What an incredible night at the Arrowsmith Press Fall 2025 Book Launch! 💫
Huge thanks to everyone who came out (and tuned in online) to celebrate poetry and community with us at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center.
Fall Launch at Boston University! 🍂
Huge thanks to the prestigious authors joining us tonight for their readings, insight, and inspiration. We’re honored to celebrate another season of powerful literature and new voices with our friends, readers, and the BU community.
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📢 This Thursday! 📢
The Fall 2025 Book Launch is almost here. Don’t miss an evening with Bruce Smith (Hungry Ghost), Wang Jiaxin (At the Same Time), and Tadeusz Dąbrowski (The Scent of Man).
🗓 Thursday, October 23 @ 7pm EST
📍 BU Katzenberg Center OR 💻 join online
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Join us for the Fall 2025 Book Launch featuring Bruce Smith, Wang Jiaxin, and Tadeusz Dąbrowski
📍 Katzenberg Center, 871 Commonwealth Ave
🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd at 7 PM EST
Attend in person or online!
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Hinge-Weather: In conversation with Sven Birkerts
Birkerts, one of our Fall 2024 Arrowsmith Press authors, has long written about how we meet change: patiently, attentively, and with the willingness to be altered by what we see.
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Join the very first meeting of KNOW HOWE: The Fanny Howe Memorial Book Club! 📷 Monday, Sept 22 | 5:30–7:00PM 📷 Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330 📷
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You’re Invited!
Join us at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of A Precise Chaos with author Jo-Ann Mort, in conversation with Leah Hager Cohen.
A Precise Chaos is Jo-Ann Mort’s powerful debut poetry collection, published this spring by Arrowsmith Press.
Hitting a Wall and Making a Door: A Conversation between Diane Mehta & Phillis Levin
These two acclaimed poets explored language, geometry, sound, and the pleasures of multiple perspectives in poetry.
🎧 Includes audio of poems read by their authors!
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Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetry, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, “moves intimately through spaces sacred and profane, suggesting we are never fully in one world or the other.”
THE SCENT OF MAN (@arrowsmithpress) is on our #NationalTranslationMonth list: arrowsmithpress.com/tadeusz-…