Not to be a twerp, but seems worth noting that you're also from a Spanish speaking country. More Spanish speakers here than in Spain! I think almost 50% of residents of the Bronx speak Spanish at home, current mayor of your hometown gives bilingual speeches. etc.
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In this post and this post only! Unism and the Polish avant garde! Women in translation month! @jonathandubow.bsky.social ! Capricious translation choices! This will probably not be the only post with these actually!
This might not be exactly what you mean, but I have an exercise like this I use with my students. Gonna email ya
Love and strength, my friend
Speaking to no one? What am I, chopped liver?
Love and gentleness to you, my friend
Excited to be performing a couple of poems alongside the Baltimore Consort on Saturday at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center!
And stay tuned tomorrow for @romyewing.bsky.social's picks for the open road and punk-pop angst.
These pieces really speak to the spirit of commentary and conversation for this series and I'm thrilled to bring them into the world. Also, lots of references to Hurray for the Riff Raff, which I love. If you have a way to let Alynda Segarra know they exist, hmu!
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"you see before i do
& it balances the world
(i saw it once, you saw it twice)"
"you let me guide you across the tightrope,
hands warmer than a closed door."
And for the final dovetail of the week with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social the truest dovetail of all--two poems written in conversation. Please enjoy "marching towards salt river park" by BEE LB and "river where there was no river; a piece of glass; a mirror" by andrea lianne grabowski
Meanwhile, just a little over 24 hours to get your submissions in for @romyewing.bsky.social’s guest editing call!
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And if anyone has a way to let Leon Lett know this exists, you know what to do...
When I pitched a week of intertextual dovetails to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, I had this exact essay in mind. In fact, this essay has been on my mind for twelve years, and I couldn't be happier to bring it out into the world.
Next up in my week of dovetails with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, please enjoy "Leon Lett and the Poetics of Chaos: A Failed Essay on Failure" by Abbas Abidi.
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"Are you sorry for the things you promised in dreams?
For what you forgot to ask
when you heard the riddle for the first time?"
Next up in my week of dovetails @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, Rob Lesman talks to God. You've been waiting to read this poem without realizing you've been waiting to read it.
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I’m really proud of this piece that I translated by Yosel Cutler, a perfect Yiddish literary figure to run in an “anti literary magazine” like @publishedbyjake.bsky.social !
I finished this in the last hour, and I really enjoyed it. A translation of early 20th century humor with themes that are relevant today. Read it yourself because “the jokes not funny if I explain it to you.”
From my friend @mordecaimartin.net in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
"Spinoza, or my grandpa, it would seem, once said that a blind man walks as easily inside a mine as a sighted one. And I’ll tell you what, Mister Cutler: The philosopher who sought out truth in the daylight with a lantern was also a real chump."
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For day three of dovetails with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
, it's my distinct pleasure to publish an excerpt from Yosel Cutler's Merrily We Go A-Wrong: My Philosophical Laundryman, translated from Yiddish with commentary by the wonderful @mordecaimartin.net
CAST OF CHARACTERS
big breasted balebostehs
alterkakers white haired
two teenage girls
mit soft pinchable punims
and a man, he was shy, yung,
named Pavel
who would play ‘MOTEL THE TAILOR’
and ‘DANCING COSSACK’
Next up in this week of dovetails with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social , "The Alexander Singers & Players present Shmiddler on the Roof" by the ever unclassifiable Jess Goldman. Shakespearean Sholem Aleichem? What better way to begin Hanukkah!
First up in my week of dovetails for @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, for all you insomniacs, wrestling fans, 90s nostalgists and anyone full of existential ennui, Mick Foley Falls Through an Announcers Table While I Fall Asleep by Zack Davis: jakethemag.com/mick-foley-f...
And starting tomorrow it's all dovetails all week on jakethemag.com
That's a wrap on my @publishedbyjake.bsky.social call but if you missed the deadline, @romyewing.bsky.social's got a fresh call open this morning!
Or you could wait a day and submit to @romyewing.bsky.social's call for open road escapism
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