Excerpt from Nikki Ummel's homage to Diane Seuss in Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V, out last April (2025).
"So, I wrote my own poem, continuing a conversation I was only just realizing women poets had been having for centuries, and I felt very sad," writes Nikki Ummel in her homage statement to Diane Seuss. You can read her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nikki-ummel-v
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Girl à feuilles caduques" by Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social)
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Thank you for this share, @stonecirclereview.bsky.social 🩶
Aujourd’hui : « Écritures en circulation mémoire, langues, filiations », le premier séminaire de l'axe 4 en recherche-création du laboratoire Héritages. (Vous pouvez assister en personne ou en ligne mais vous devez vous inscrire: heritages.cyu.fr/version-fran... )
Quotation from Isabella Streffen's homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse, published in Verse of April's Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V.
"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...
Thank you for reading, Deborah 🩶
Pleased to have my new poem "English Translation" up with @lunchticket.bsky.social's Amuse Bouche series: lunchticket.org/english-tran...
Lénaïg Cariou reading on April 18, 2026 with Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series
On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!
Soirée Hélène Bessette, Libraire Nouvel Équipage, 1 avril 2026
Soirée Hélène Bessette, Libraire Nouvel Équipage, 1 avril 2026
Le 1 avril, à 20h le Gang du roman poétique — Anaïs de Courson, Claudine Hunault, Cédric Jullion, Rémi Letourneur, Benoît Virot et moi-même — sera à la Librairie Nouvel Équipage pour parler de l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, à l’heure où le sentiment fasciste progresse en Europe et ailleurs.
Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series hosts Mia You on March 14, 2026, at Rerenga Wines
Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.
An excerpt from Jason Stoneking's handwritten portrait of Richard Dailey for Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V.
"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...
Exacting Clam, No. 20, Spring 2026 cover
Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès (translated by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy) cover
"Translated with an astute attention to detail, and crisp, continuous tonality, Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy have offered us a glimpse into the amorphous and readily engaged mind of Moussempès..." -Greg Bem, on Cassandra at point-blank range: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
A flash portrait essay, in optical illusion. With flickerings from Malik Ameer Crumpler, Phyllis of Berkeley Books of Paris, Orson Welles, Henry Griffin, Paris Heretics, the color black, and all your faces want with question.
🧐 Hm...well, in the Age of Generative AI, I guess I'll take 'dusty' if it means we're still talking about humans doing humans! I swear 2026 is so horny.
My daugther telling me, Maman il va falloir que tu move tes books.
Submissions Open for Translations of Living Poets' Work - Verse of April
Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions
(Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)
Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series description.
Mnemosynes — ❤️🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.
Hélène Bessette
Special guesting at SpokenWord Paris last night…
Thank you for sending this energy!
We're super excited to go see @chapp010.bsky.social featuring at Spoken Word Paris tomorrow night! 🌟🤩🌟
More info at the link:
spokenwordparis.org/2026/01/20/c...
Thank you for sharing the news, Paris Heretics! Looking forward to seeing you there.
Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.
Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.
Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...
A poem from ten years ago, first appearing in Horse Less Press:
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Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.
These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?
🩶🪩🩶 @lesteria.bsky.social!
