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V. Penelope Pelizzon
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Poet. Pattern, texture, surface, depth. Sometimes sparkles.
Latest: A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye, Pitt Poetry Series, 2024
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Popping on briefly with my hair on fire to say Hurray for World Poetry Review! The new issue has twelve poems from Yari Bernasconi's La Casa Vuota that I had the pleasure of translating from Italian earlier this year.
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World Poetry Review
World Poetry Review is a literary journal dedicated to publishing exceptional poetry from a diverse range of languages, cultures, and eras in translation.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems!
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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize — Waywiser Books
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September 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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It was a pleasure to talk with the delightful Gregory Dowling for the Italian journal Oltreoceano on themes of exile in my new book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye. (English version here, and you can click for the Italian PDF if you wish.)

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An Interview with the Poet V. Penelope Pelizzon about Her Recent Book A Gaze Hound that Hunteth by the Eye | Oltreoceano - Rivista sulle migrazioni
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April 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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University presses! We love them! It was a pleasure to talk to LitHub about some of the reasons why university presses are crucial for poetry...

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Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry
For anyone who pays attention to major literary awards, it will come as no surprise that university presses figure prominently among celebrated and vigorous publishers of contemporary poetry. In th…
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March 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A smorgasboard of poets to kick off the the cruelest month ...
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Poems from CT's Four Corners | Ridgefield Library
Scott Frey’s poems appear widely, including in The Missouri Review, where his work received the Perkoff Prize. His collection Heavy Metal Nursing won the Tampa Review Prize.
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March 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Tonight! There's also a livestream option for those who can't join in person in DC...

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2025 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize with Paul Muldoon and Julia Thacker | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Tomorrow night! DC area poetry fans! Come on down! I'm kvelling for Julia Thacker's fantastic TO WILDNESS, hot off the press from The Waywiser Press!
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2025 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize with Paul Muldoon and Julia Thacker | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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For International Women's Day, a poem from a while back. I keep hoping this one will become a historical curiosity, but alas.

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Blood Memory
Hunched in the bath, four ibuprofen gulped too late to dull the muscle cramping to sate a god who thirsts monthly for his slake of iron, I am just a body bleeding in bad light. But after an hour, as t...
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March 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
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We're not done yet | 18F
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March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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In the midst of madness, how good to have the happier bafflement of poems to translate! I'm working on Yari Bernasconi's La Casa Vuota these days, and here's a flashback to a few from his terrific Nuovi Giorni di Polvere.
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from New Days of Dust - Asymptote
Postcard from Saint-Gilles-du-Gard Stones, behind the gate and chain. Behind the barrier’srust. A guidebook describes the miracleending in nothing: sand and dust. It narratespersecutions an...
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March 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Ah! How nice to log on -- amid the burning of Rome aka in Washington, D.C.-- and find this new heartening venture afoot. Save my soul once again, poems!
northseapoets.bsky.social North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Feb 28
Introducing North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars for poets and readers in the UK and Ireland (and for early birds and night owls planet-wide).

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Image announcing the launch of North Sea Poets on 1st March, 2025. Features a sunset photo of a beach, a logo with blue waves, and the names of poets Kathleen Jamie, Niall Campbell, Karen Solie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lisa Brockwell, and Lesley Harrison.
March 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize
The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize
THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...
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February 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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February 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Translators! A grant for early career folks from Words Without Borders:
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Words Without Borders Announces Third Annual Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I was asked to pass this on to POETS...please share.

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- COVID-19 Memorial Monument
Poetry Contest Calling all Poets Worldwide! The Hektoen Institute COVID-19 Monument Commission announces a poetry competition for a Poet Laureate.  You are invited to enter our poetry competition to b...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Insect appreciation post! 1) Past: With Daniel Kobamelo and termite mound in Botswana c 2013 on an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. 2) Present: CT nature friends, a house bill on pesticides that needs written testimony by 2/19--easy to do w/ this link.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025
Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices. If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund. Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically. This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history. Sincerely, the undersigned, American Booksellers Association American Booksellers for Free Expression Andrews McMeel Annie's Foundation Audio Publishers Association Authors Against Book Bans Berry Powell Press Cardinal Rule Press Charlesbridge Publishing Chestnut Publishing House Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz Developmental Texts Empowering Latino Futures EveryLibrary Firewater Media Group Florida Freedom to Read Project Foreword Reviews Freedom to Read Project Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) IngramSpark Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship Lambda Literary Latino 247 Media Group Lee Wind, author Levine Querido Library Futures Livingston Parish Library Alliance Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship Macmillan Children's Publishing Group The National Book Critics Circle National Coalition Against Censorship NorthSouth Books Nosy Crow Patagonia Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County PEN America PFLAG Fresno PubWest Rattling Good Yarns Press Read Freely Alabama Red Comet Press LLC Rutherford County Library Alliance Sara Paretsky, Writer SCBWI SEAT SparkPoint Studio St Tammany Library Alliance Stone Bridge Press Texas Freedom to Read Project Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing We Need Diverse Books Logos of the organizations that have signed the statement.
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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One thing I love about teaching environmental writing (alongside getting to take students on the campus tree walk🌲) is sharing all sorts of new writing with them, like this latest from @poetjs.bsky.social at the always exciting @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social ...
February 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Sanity!
February 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Weenie bit of bright news.

CT pharmacists can now prescribe birth control; Plan B in vending machine at UConn www.courant.com/2025/02/04/c...
CT pharmacists can now prescribe birth control; Plan B in vending machine at UConn
Connecticut announced this week that contraception is now easier to get, with one vending machine at UConn and hundreds of pharmacists now eligible to prescribe it.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Hello, hello... hello? This is not good.

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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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February 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I wish this were just a creative writing exercise.

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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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February 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Just a little gender-complex family from the 17th century. My beloved José de Ribera's portrait of Magdalena Ventura, spouse, and bambino, from 1631. (Ribera was Spanish but spent his working life in Naples, a city that opens your eyes.)🥰
February 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Woke up this a.m. thinking I would start a punk band called "Rogue Bureaucrats," then got distracted by the latest post by @victoriamoul.bsky.social, on Russian poetry anthologies. (Do follow her link to listen to Nina Iskrenko for an intense soundscape.)
victoriamoul.bsky.social Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Jan 30
Something a bit different today, as I look at four anthologies of Russian poetry from the perspective of a beginning language learner.
Love at the closing of our days
Four anthologies of Russian poetry
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January 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM