Elisa Gabbert’s best of the year poetry column is where I start and end

What I read (and enjoyed a ton) in January 🌨️

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC, 1988

I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.

The winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize is… 🥁 Christina MacSweeney for her translation of Jazmina Barrera’s THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, from @twolinespress.com. An astounding book and an honor to Chair this brilliant committee!

October (and earlier) 🔮

Cercador Prize longlist… 🥁🥁🥁

I love this list and I love chairing this committee 🪑 can’t wait to get reading!! 🛝

"insane in retrospect but we're doing it" sums up @thankyoubooks.bsky.social very nicely 🧚

A few of my favorite books to celebrate Women in Translation month in the Cercador newsletter! 💛

@thankyoubooks.bsky.social all the way tf locked in for @tricialockwood.bsky.social !!!!

Preorder here:

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Tomorrow night at 6:30 pm! Maria Zoccola presents HELEN OF TROY, 1993, in conversation with @alinaetc.bsky.social 🧡

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Best week ever in Cincinnati 🎾 I love u tennis

Emotional abt this half snail half Winston drawing from our buddies at Recluse Books in Fort Worth, TX

Support independent bookstores 🥹

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Jannik Sinner after beating Alcaraz to win Wimbledon

"How was it having to avoid a champagne cork?"

Jannik: "Only here at Wimbledon." 😭😭😭😭 🍾

Painting of a fence line in a golden field with many wild flowers created in a semi abstract style

July Fields, 1959
by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt

Sunday again

Yes my bracket was shot to hell after day ONE of Wimbledon, but I stand by these semifinals picks

Winston’s first swim🥹

Locking my doors locking my windows

Watching Fedal Wimbledon 08 clips in a hotel bed. Do not call my iPhone do NOT text my iPhone

Fever dream coupla days

Thank u Arthur 🙏🏻

Rinderknech after beating Zverev at Wimbledon 👅

21 years ago, ‘BEFORE SUNSET’ released in theaters.

CHEERS to @tricialockwood.bsky.social (in convo w/ @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social) at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social, 3 months from today!!!! 🥂

With Monfils beating #18 Humbert, there are now *THIRTEEN* men's seeds out in the first round, which equals an all-time Grand Slam record. #Wimbledon

Alexandra Eala after losing to Joint in Eastbourne

*talking through tears*

“It’s my 1st WTA final. It’s a big deal for me. For my country too because it’s historic. It’s the first time any Filipino has done anything. That’s why I’m so emotional. But it’s only the first.” 🥹

market terms for when a book’s so good you know it’ll do numbers but also when a book’s so bad you know it’ll do numbers…same term with a different prefix maybe…