What a sight of Forrest & two editors at East China Normal University Press holding the three books I have translated: BE WITH, TWICE ALIVE, MOJAVE GHOST+KNOT & thanks to Wang Yin there'll be a reading at Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum if you happen to be there to embrace the heat!

Ja, die Liebe zur Sprache kann Kummer stillen! Had lots of fun talking to Thomas Studer from Süddeutsche Zeitung. Here's the little me, if you can read German. "Wie Sprachen die Welt erschließen: Porträt des chinesischen Lyrikers Dong Li" via @sz sz.de/lux.6ns1h6xn47…

das kleine Ich / the little me

Sasha Dugdale’s THE STRONGBOX Carcanet Press sings&singes, a singular language of glassmaking, as the sands of history, epic, myth, tales, & “the thud of your own heart” are spun into new eyes of unaffected seeing, in the “dirty fire” of a lyre tilting forward into the foreign

Ever evocative and elusive, THE LIFE OF TU FU by Eliot Weinberger New Directions is an elemental tour de force. Who says a poem cannot be as simple as the sea and as large as the universe? After reading this poem again and again, who doesn’t want to cry and cry and write?

⁦DongLi 李栋⁩ im Portrait spricht über sein Buch The Orange Tree - ein großes Poem über Geschichte, Vertreibung und Gewalt in bewundernswert offenen, schwebenden Versen - Wie Sprachen die Welt erschließen: Dong Li - SZ.de sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/villa…

“It reminds me Of a morning in an old alley in Shanghai A heavy white fog outside the window Or before the great revolution In the Yangtze delta, the entwined Obscure souls” Read “The Silk” by YE Hui, translated by DongLi 李栋: blackbird.vcu.edu/the-silk/

Dank an die Herausgeber Matthias Kniep u. Karin Fellner des Jahrbuchs der Lyrik 2024/25 Schöffling & Co. für die Aufnahme meines kleinen Prosagedichts in Ron Winklers Übersetzung. Thanks to Ron Winkler, whose German translation of my little prose poem appears before the original!

Congratulations to Norman Erikson Pasaribu and their first poetry collection MY DREAM JOB originally written in English! Thanks to the editors Trà My & Mayada Tilted Axis for asking me for a blurb! For more information and orders: tiltedaxispress.com/books#/my-drea…

THE ORANGE TREE is grateful to be a finalist for the 2023 Big Other Readers Choice Award. Here's the list of the nominating readers and nominated writers & their titles: bigother.com/2024/08/21/ann… Thanks to John Madera John Madera ! My brief reading link in John's post below.

Thanks to Poetry Northwest and especially editor Robin Myers Robin Myers for publishing this poem "The Earth" 大地 by the Chinese poet YE Hui 叶辉 & my English translation in the latest print issue and online: poetrynw.org/ye-hui-the-ear…

Thinking of Éluard, "La terre est bleue comme une orange" - n'est-ce pas? Thrilled to have my first broadside #sendmepress. Thanks to Kate Gibbel's meticulous care and hands-on vision! Here's the link to wonderful poem postcards from many beautiful poets: sendme.press/Poems

Thanks, Doug D. A. Powell, for this and your encouragement!

HAPPY PUB DAY to SRIKANTH REDDY whose book THE UNSIGNIFICANT is out in the world today! Read 10 Questions with Reddy in Poets & Writers here: pw.org/content/ten_qu… and use PUBDAY_F24 at checkout on the Wave website for 25% off today.

Belatedly, an almost-ekphrastic poem "Are You OK." Fun to be part of this project in conversation w/ "Into View: New Voices, New Stories" group exhibit! Thanks to editor Claudia La Rocco Small Press Traffic & Headlands Center for the Arts Asian Art Museum! Here's the link: smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-room-…

Open Studio, Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, So, 22.09. 2024, ab 14:00, Lesung mit Cornelia Hülmbauer um 16:30, mit Dank an Artist in Residence Munich, Villa Waldberta & Ebenböckhaus u. Lyrik Kabinett München