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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 4h

Find four poems from GIRL WITH A BULLET by Anna Malihon, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings, in WPR 11:
worldpoetryreview.org/2025/03/27/f...

Want to read more? GIRL WITH A BULLET is out now from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social !

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 2d

Bay Area folks, this one sounds fun!

Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 9d

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 5d

Six Poems by Alessio Patti, translated from the Sicilian by Ashley Pizzo, in WPR 11: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/03/29/s...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 8d

Eight poems by Maria Petrovykh, translated from the Russian by Kitty Hunter-Blair: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/04/16/e...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 19d

Seven poems by Alfonsina Storni, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Elisa Taber, in WPR 11!

worldpoetryreview.org/2025/04/05/s...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 23d

Read the full poem, "Requiem for Léna" by Hocine Tandjaoui, translated from the French by Teresa Villa-Ignacio: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/04/18/r...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 27d

Check it out tomorrow at Molasses Books!

World Poetry Books @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social · 29d

Join Molasses Books on Friday, September 19 at 8PM for September's Another Way to Say and celebrating new & forthcoming translations from Brian Robert Moore, Olga Mikolaivna, and Judah Rubin!

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 27d

Get a chance to read the spring issue yet? It features five poems by Marianne Van Hirtum, translated from the French by Hilary Clark. Read the rest here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/04/05/f...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Sep 11

Want to read more by Gülten Akın? Check out all seven of Zeynep Özer's translations from the Turkish in WPR issue 10!

worldpoetryreview.org/2024/09/27/s...

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Sep 9

An excerpt from "The Silk of Love" by Romanian-born French poet Céline Arnauld, translated by Henry Cole Smith. WPR issue 9.

Want to read more? Check it out:
worldpoetryreview.org/2024/03/15/f...

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · Aug 28

Three new poetry collections from the first-rate @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 28

Want to read more? You can find five poems by Tania Ganitsky, trans. from the Spanish by Guy Bennett, in WPR 8!
worldpoetryreview.org/2023/05/29/t...

Interested in submitting to WPR? Check out worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/. We're accepting submissions through the end of August!

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 24

Awesome upcoming event from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social!

World Poetry Books @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us September 29, 2025 7pm at the Brooklyn Public Library for Colloquy #18 - Translating the Epic, with Luke Soucy and Emily Wilson!

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 23

Issue 7 of WPR features poems by Meret Oppenheim, translated from the German and French by Kathleen Heil. Read more at: worldpoetryreview.org/2022/08/29/m...

Interested in submitting to WPR? Check out our submission guidelines: worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Submissions! Translators of poetry, there's still time to submit to the upcoming issue of World Poetry Review. You can check out the submissions guidelines here: worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 14

WPR issue 6 features poems by Mireille Gansel,
translated from the French by Joan Seliger Sidney:
worldpoetryreview.org/2022/04/27/m...

WPR is currently open for submissions from translators of poetry thru August 31st!

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hang out @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social and other small presses this weekend!

World Poetry Books @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

Join us and other small press friends at the BOMB Magazine 2025 Small Press Flea on August 16th, hosted at Amant!

For more details, see here: bombmagazine.org/events/small...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Zuzanna Ginczanka’s ON CENTAURS & OTHER POEMS “introduces the full scope of Ginzcanka’s poetic vision and prophetic voice to English-language readers for the first time.”

Published by @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social & translated by Alex Braslavsky! #WITMonth worldpoetrybooks.com/books/on-cen...

Zuzanna Ginczanka - On Centaurs & Other Poems — WORLD POETRY

ZUZANNA GINCZANKA ON CENTAURS AND OTHER POEMS Translated from Polish by ALEX BRASLAVSKY

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 8

An excerpt from Martha Canfield's "Pantelleria," translated from the Italian by Danielle Pieratti. Read more in WPR Issue 5 here: worldpoetryreview.org/2022/07/19/m...

Want to contribute to WPR? We're accepting submissions! Find out more here: worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Aug 2

World Poetry Review is open for submissions, August 1st–August 31st, for our upcoming issue.

Translators of poetry are encouraged to apply! Check out our submission guidelines to learn more about what we're looking for:
worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

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World Poetry Review Call for Submissions: https://worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

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World Poetry Books @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

You can read some excerpts from Ahmad Shamlou's ELEGIES OF THE EARTH, translated from Persian by Niloufar Talebi, at Vox Populi!

See here:
voxpopulisphere.com/2025/07/13/a...

ELEGIES OF THE EARTH is out November 11, 2025, and available for pre-order at worldpoetrybooks.com/forthcoming

Ahmad Shamlou: Excerpts from Elegies of the Earth

Is it old age to coil inward like a cloud and thunder without rain?

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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Jul 30

From "Cargo Hold of Stars" by Khal Torabully, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson. Read more in WPR issue 4!
worldpoetryreview.org/2022/08/24/k...
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Find poems by Peruvian poet Blanca Varela, translated from the Spanish by Eileen O’Connor, in WPR Issue 3! worldpoetryreview.org/2022/08/24/b...
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Jul 17

Two poems by Robert Desnos, translated from the French by Jules Lefèvre are featured in WPR issue 2. Check them out here:
worldpoetryreview.org/2022/08/24/r...
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · Jul 11

Throwback to WPR issue one, which includes "Decisive Horizon" and more poems by Nikos Violaris, translated from the Greek by Sarah McCann. Check it out here: worldpoetryreview.org/issue-one/
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