How can poetry help us see the Middle East more clearly?

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#ArrowsmithPress #JoAnnMort #APreciseChaos #PoetryAndPolitics

We are thrilled to announce that At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems by Wang Jiaxin, translated from Chinese by John Balcom, has been named a finalist for the prestigious PEN Translation Award! 🏆

#ArrowsmithPress #WangJiaxin #JohnBalcom #PENAmerica #TranslationAward

Book Review: "Crimean Fig" - Everything Has Its Own Soul - The Arts Fuse The authors assembled in "Crimean Fig" demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.

Book Review: “Crimean Fig” — Everything Has Its Own Soul artsfuse.org/320347/book-...

We must share these powerful words from Oleksandra Matviichuk, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of Ukraine’s Centre for Civil Liberties, delivered at the UA-MED Heal Ukraine 2025 Conference at Harvard University (November 7–8, 2025).

#UAMED #HealUkraine #UkrainianHealthcare

Arrowsmith Press Fall 2025 Book Launch YouTube video by Arrowsmith Press

Watch out, readers! 📚✨
The Arrowsmith Fall 2025 Launch Livestream is now on YouTube! 🎥
Catch the readings, conversations, and new releases we’re thrilled to share.
👉 Watch now — www.youtube.com/live/84o05Kh...
#ArrowsmithPress #Fall2025Launch #LiteraryCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Publishing

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.

📚 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.

📢 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

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

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?

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#AskoldMelnyczuk #ArrowsmithPress #WhoOwnsOurImagination #TheHumanities

Hinge-Weather: In conversation with Sven Birkerts Cartographies of Elsewhere, Dispatch 17, Danuta's Flights

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.

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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.

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

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse This week's poem: Mark Pawlak's 4 poems from “Special Operation," Ukraine

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

This is a great book in a great translation

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…

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...

@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-...

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

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

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-...

Rehearsal Scenes by Diane Mehta June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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."

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

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…

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...

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

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-...

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?"

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#UkraineWar

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…

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."
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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

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