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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 12h

What an incredible night at the Arrowsmith Press Fall 2025 Book Launch! 💫

Huge thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate poetry and community with us at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center.

We’re so grateful to Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Bruce Smith, and Wang Jiaxin for sharing their works.

Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 12h

📚 Fall Launch at Boston University! 🍂

Huge thanks to the prestigious authors joining us 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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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 3d

📢 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

#PoetryEvent #BookLaunch

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 12d

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!

#BookLaunch #PoetryEvent #BruceSmith #WangJiaxin #TadeuszDąbrowski

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 18d

Who Owns Our Imagination?
Written by Askold Melnyczuk

Who tells the best stories, and what happens when business, politics, and technology start deciding for us?

www.arrowsmithpress.com/.../who-owns...
#AskoldMelnyczuk #ArrowsmithPress #WhoOwnsOurImagination #TheHumanities

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 23

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.

open.substack.com/pub/danuta/p...

Hinge-Weather: In conversation with Sven Birkerts

Cartographies of Elsewhere, Dispatch 17, Danuta's Flights

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 23

The Hopkins Review has published Wang Jiaxin’s poem “Gwangju Boy” — and announced it will appear in At the Same Time, forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press.
Read it here: hopkinsreview.com/features/gwangju-boy-wang-jiaxin
#WangJiaxin #Poetry #TheHopkinsReview #AtTheSameTime #ArrowsmithPress

Gwangju Boy — The Hopkins Review

“Is it you who keeps asking / Who killed our Gwangju boy?” Wang Jiaxin, translated by John Balcom, meditates on the Gwangju uprising as dramatized in Human Acts by Hang Kang.

hopkinsreview.com

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 14

Four searing poems from Special Operation, Ukraine by Mark Pawlak are now live on [The Arts Fuse].

They chronicle the brutality and humanity found in the midst of war: from Kharkiv’s bombed streets to soldiers retrieving fallen comrades.

#MarkPawlak #UkrainianPoetry #ArrowsmithPress #Poetry

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse

This week's poem: Mark Pawlak's 4 poems from “Special Operation," Ukraine

artsfuse.org

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Judith Baumel @judithbaumel.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is a great book in a great translation

Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

@ChytomoE describes #YuliyaMusakovska's #Ukrainian poetry collection “The God of Freedom” as having an "intellectual discipline [that] sets it apart":
chytomo.com/en/foxes-bir...

Find the book here, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and the author: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/the-...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.”

Read THE SCENT OF MAN (@arrowsmithpress.bsky.social) for #NationalTranslationMonth: www.arrowsmithpress.com/tadeusz-dabr...

The Scent of Man by Tadeusz Dąbrowski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones — ARROWSMITH

Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetry is as beguiling, reflective and precise as a thousand fragments of a shattered mirror. The poet is properly suspicious of the ambiguities concealed in all language: “very…

www.arrowsmithpress.com

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

@ChytomoE describes #YuliyaMusakovska's #Ukrainian poetry collection “The God of Freedom” as having an "intellectual discipline [that] sets it apart":
chytomo.com/en/foxes-bir...

Find the book here, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and the author: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/the-...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Read poet #ThomasOGrady 's review in #NixesMate for his latest collection "Coming Ashore":

"When Thomas O’Grady is not coloring the world and palpating its air with wings, he is reckoning the deep breath of music..."
nixesmate.pub/issue-34-35-...

The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/thomas-ogrady

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 4

A review of @jo-ann.bsky.social's first poetry collection, A Precise Chaos, in @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social:
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-preci...
"Mort repeatedly asks questions about poetry, about Jewish identity, and about who we are..."
The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

In June, the late #Ukrainian writer and public figure #VictoriaAmelina won the #OrwellPrize for political writing for “Looking at Women Looking at War,” the book she was unable to finish before a Russian missile killed her.
Read more about her story here: chytomo.com/en/victoria-...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 2

In @parisreview.bsky.social: three dispatches from the New Chamber Ballet’s poet-in-residence, @DianeMehta, who has observed their rehearsals for the past year and a half:
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
Read more like this in Tiny Extravaganzas: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/tiny...

Rehearsal Scenes by Diane Mehta

June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”

www.theparisreview.org

Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Sep 1

With your morning coffee: a poem by Askold Melnyczuk from The Venus of Odessa
"I imagine
somewhere beyond the tree
that house, the solitary, careful
child within,
and the dragonflies
rising and falling like pistons..."
voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/14/a...
The book: askoldmelnyczuk.net/books/the-ve...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Aug 31

Spring Arrowsmith poet and journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social reflects on her 30-year hiatus from poetry to focus on journalism -- and what it took to publish her first collection at 69.
Read her story here:
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how...
Explore her book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

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Diane Mehta @dianemehta.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
kyivindependent.com/what-russia-...

What Russia stole, these Crimean Tatar authors endeavor to reclaim with literature

To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea resort, the peninsula was seized at gunpoint in 2014 and transformed into a...

kyivindependent.com

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Tess Callahan @tesscallahan.bsky.social · Aug 5

I hope you enjoy as much as I did my interview with @agnimagazine.bsky.social & @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social editor/author Askold Melnyczuk on The Venus of Odesa, now out from MadHat Press. #ukrainewriter #ukraine #poetry #odesa

Askold Melnyczuk on What We Think We Should Write vs. What Wants to be Written

"Most of us have a natural field of action, an arena, in which we can assert ourselves and make some difference in the world."

tesscallahan.substack.com

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yuliya Musakovska’s THE GOD OF FREEDOM follows “the peoples’ future under the shadow of war and its tumultuous past.”

Read an @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social collection, translated from the Ukrainian by Musakovska and Olena Jennings, this #WITMonth! www.arrowsmithpress.com/yuliya-musak...

The God of Freedom by Yuliya Musakovska — ARROWSMITH

Yuliya Musakovska is an award-winning Ukrainian poet and translator. She was born in 1982 in Lviv, Ukraine, where she lives and works. She has published five poetry collections in Ukrainian, among…

www.arrowsmithpress.com

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 3

In this @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social collection translated by Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya, two poets “speak to each other, and us, about the stories that nurture, and the damage caused by the fantasts of power.”

Read WHERE DO YOU LIVE? this #WITMonth: www.arrowsmithpress.com/hanaa-ahmad-...

Where do you live? by Dr. Hanaa Ahmad Jabr and Jennifer Jean — ARROWSMITH

Where do you live?

www.arrowsmithpress.com

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

In @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, #AskoldMelnyczuk explores the moral questions posed to us in the face of war, and remembers #VictoriaAmelina:

"Just how deep is my love? Would I be willing to die defending this place? Could I imagine killing to protect it?"

lithub.com/nothing-is-p...

#UkraineWar

Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Recently published in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, former Senior Editor #EzraFox reflects on the death of beloved poet and novelist #FannyHowe, long-time resident of Cambridge, MA:
"Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor."
lithub.com/dear-fanny-d...

Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor. Fanny had intended to publish a pamphlet of legal writings by her father, civil rights scholar Mark DeWo…

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Judith Baumel @judithbaumel.bsky.social · Jul 16

Look what came in the mail on this hot and humid day! Congratulations Askold Melnyczuk on your New and Selected. I have been waiting a long time for these poems and I can't wait to dive into The Venus of Odesa. @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social

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King Jack Strong 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @kingjackstrong.bsky.social · Jul 7

Just finished The God of Freedom by Yuliya Musakovska. Very intense poetry, some of these lines are sticking with me. I highly recommend, book available from @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social

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