Excerpts from a recent email inviting me to join a literary trip to Cuba led by Lee Gutkind, founder of Creative Nonfiction magazine: I am writing to…
Continue reading → Study Cuban Culture with a White American Who’s Never Been There!
I was humored and humbled when Columbia University asked me to be on this panel:
Very much looking forward to reading, to hearing the work of my fellow alums, and to seeing anyone in NYC who is able to come!…
A few exciting updates: My collection of poems entitled "Short-Shorts" was named a semi-finalist in the Gazing Grain Press Feminist Poetry Chapbook contest. I'd been…
come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010 I heard this quote last night during…
A Facebook friend who’d moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg in his thirties recently posted a frustrated status update in which he complained about…
Poet and novelist Alejandro Zambra on "Silence and Silencing," via BombBlog (via Montana Ray): The language of parents, the silence of our parents: sometimes we didn’t…
My dear friend Yardenne Greenspan just had her translation of Israeli fiction published by New Vessel Press last week (congrats!). World Literature Today ran an…
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My translation of this wonderfully crazy short story by Andrei Krasnyashykh was just published at VICE magazine, as part of their ongoing VICE Reader…
Ack. I love Daniil Kharms, especially when he's translated by Matvei Yankelevich. There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn't…
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