APRIL 29th, join us for the fifth installment of Colloquy: Translators in Conversation, with readings and discussion from Kaiama Glover, Aaron Coleman, PhD, MFA , and Urayoán Noel on translating the Caribbean. RSVP to attend: zurl.co/tzK4 #NationalPoetryMonth

NYC: Save the date! Saturday, May 13, noon! 🤩 PEN World Voices Festival w/ Anton Hur Alexa Frank @augiewatts Jenny Croft! worldvoices.pen.org/session/transl…

The 2023 Manifesto on Literary Translation is out now! Honored to have worked with an amazing group of translators to draft this statement. Please read and share! pen.org/report/transla…

🌏 ANNOUNCEMENT! 🌍 Submissions to the 2024 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation are now OPEN! The winners will be awarded £3000 and shortlisted books will feature in a retail partnership with the PoetryBookSoc! Rules and info here: bit.ly/3HEVfaJ

The The Graduate Center Digital Showcase returns this year in hybrid format. My Praxis grad students launch projects on BIPOC women film directors, Wampanoag political agency & the Great British Bake Off. Join us in person or via livestream! gc.cuny.edu/events/gc-digi… Matt Gold 🇺🇦 @lmrhody

At DirectHers, five Digital Humanities students embark on an ambitious XML encoding project that explores the incredibly diverse, worldwide voices of women film directors and focuses light on their work in a digitally encoded collection!

Our centennial, bilingual edition of Gabriela Mistral's Desolación, which we published in 2022, is now also available via Columbia University Press! Translated by Inés Bellina, Anne Freeland, and Alejandra C. Quintana Arocho. cup.columbia.edu/book/desolacio…

Digital Showcase for @CUNYGCDI tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6:30 PM. Register Online. In-person: eventbrite.com/e/gc-digital-s… Online Registration: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

A bit under 2 months left to submit your work to the Sundial House Literary Translation Award! We seek translations from Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Asturian, and Portuguese to English. Please send us your entries by August 1st: laic.columbia.edu/content/sundia…

Only 10 days left to submit your entry to the Sundial House Translation Award! We seek translations from Spanish/ Catalan/ Asturian/ Galician/ Portuguese into English. We are particularly interested in works by lesser-known authors. Details: laic.columbia.edu/content/sundia…

The Austrian Riveter: Fiston Mwanza Mujila: An Introduction by J. Bret Maney eurolitnetwork.com/the-austrian-r…

I'm excited to be teaching Priscilla L. and Corine Tachtiris's new essay cluster on Centering Black Cultural Production in Translation alongside Kaiama Glover's brilliant essay "Blackness in French" tonight in the CUNY MALS literary translation seminar!

Join us for a CUNY Salute to Hip Hop at Lehman College in The Bronx! We celebrate the women of #HipHop & the 30th Anniversay of the release of U.N.I.T.Y. by the legendary Queen Latifah Lehman College RSVP REQUIRED eventbrite.com/e/unity-a-cuny… #HipHopHistoryMonth #HipHop50 #UNITY

Our 100 Notable African Books of 2023 list is here! We are thrilled to share some of the most enriching and captivating fiction, poetry, and non-fiction books of 2023. Shout out to all the authors and publishers for their work! Please enjoy, and share! 🥳 buff.ly/3T4nFBz

Wow! Brilliant first review of my latest translation, a labour of love and persistance through the (long) Covid years. I’m immensely proud of it, and so pleased and honoured to be bringing Fiston’s second novel into English. Huge thanks to Will Evans for his patient support!

We're hiring a director of composition on a professorial line with a 0/1 load and $80-90k starting salary at Lehman College, a great place to teach! Review of applications starting in March. Please share widely! cuny.jobs/bronx-ny/assis…

The long-awaited follow up to the Booker International-nominated TRAM 83 (also tr. Roland Glasser), THE VILLAIN'S DANCE is Fiston's second novel available in English, and his 3rd book with Deep Vellum (following the poetry collection THE RIVER IN THE BELLY, tr. J. Bret Maney).

These poems, first published on WWB in 2021, are meditations on the Congo River’s links to memory and exile. Read Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s “Two Poems” (tr. J. Bret Maney) here: buff.ly/48jvIQo