The New Orleans Poetry Festival kicks off in just about a month now. Check out the schedule at nolapoetry.com and join us for a week of readings and events.
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Recent News
"Winter Flame," a poem from Eugénio de Andrade's Furrows of Thirst has been selected for this year's Pushcart Prize and included in the just-released Pushcart Prize XLVIII. To commemorate, we're of...
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Two New Reviews of Ulacia
Check out these two recent reviews of Manuel Ulacia Selected Poems, Translated and Selected by Indran Amirthanayagam:
Jonathan Harrington review at World Literature Today.
Walter Holland review at ...
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Four New Volumes of Poetry in Translation Launching in time for ALTA
We've had a busy Spring, here, with lots of new titles in the works, including these four now available for pre-order, launching this Fall just in time for the ALTA conference.
My Soul Has No C...
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2 New Releases by Adeena Karasick to Launch at the New Orleans Poetry Festival
This April we will be launching two poetically, visually and politically arresting titles by Adeena Karasick at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, which is taking place April 13-16. Adeena performs at ...
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Manuel Ulacia: New Selection and Translation by Indran Amirthanayagam
Manuel Ulacia (1953–2001) was born into a family of Spanish poets of the famous “Generation of ‘27” who fled to Mexico from the Spanish Civil War. Manuel studied Hispanic literature at Yale, specia...
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New Translation of Baroja
We're excited to be releasing, this month, the first translation of famed Spanish novelist Pío Baroja's Los Amores Tardíos, translated as Night Flame by Spanish scholar D. J. Walker. Well-known and ...
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t thilleman at Brooklyn Rail
Lavender Ink author (Free Compositions and the newly-released Improviso) and prolific publisher and poetry raconteur t. thilleman is featured in the current issue of Brooklyn Rail. In the interview h...
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Chad Foret, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award Grand Prize Winner
This year's William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award Grand Prize Winner is Chad Foret for his paean to south Louisiana, Scenes from a Rain Country. "I am confident writers of the 22nd century will regar...
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NOPF is Here!
The New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2022, starts up this weekend with online events. Check out the entire event schedule here. The first half of the week is devoted to online events, with live events be...
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Lavender Ink / Diálogos at AWP
Please join us at two offsite events in Philly during AWP next week. First, we are cosponsoring a PREFUNK PARTY, in collaboration with Unlikely Stories, Rigorous: a journal by people of color, and Lo...
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Indran Amirthanayagam Reviewed in World Literature Today
Blue Window has attracted the attention of World Literature Today, where it is reviewed this month by Jonathan Harrington, who analyzes the book thoroughly:
With almost no subject matter being taboo...
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Agadir Longlisted for National Translation Award!
Diálogos is happy to announce that Agadir, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's genre-defying masterpiece, in translation by Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak, has been longlisted for the National Translation Award. ...
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Two New Titles from Morocco
We are excited to be releasing, almost simultaneously, two newly translated works by Moroccan women. The first is Liqueur of Aloe, Jocelyne Laâbi's compelling memoir of growing up in a French colonia...
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Discovery of the New World at Modern Novel
John Alvey's review of Nabile Farès' Discovery of the New World is now up at The Modern Novel. We recommend this thoroughly researched and prepared article as a fitting introduction to Farès' magnum ...
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Hank Lazer’s Thinking in Jewish in Jacket2
We're gratified to see so many reviews and essays concerning Lavender Ink and Diálogos books in recent days. Here is one, on Hank Lazer's Thinking in Jewish, by Ariel Resnikoff at Jacket2. Resnikoff ...
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A Novel of London reviewed by Vesna Goldsworthy in Asymptote
The international literary journal Asymptote has recently published an extensive review of Miloš Crnjanski's A Novel of London. This essay by international best-selling author Vesna Goldsworthy is a ...
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The Murderous Sky reviewed by Joyce Zonana
Check out this amazing review of Rosemary Daniell's The Murderous Sky, by Joyce Zonana at Feminism and Religion:
…Cixous reminds us that “we need the books that hurt us,” books that “strike us like ...
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Diálogos at NOPF
The live (well, Zoom) event at the New Orleans Poetry Festival was Sunday, April 25, 2 PM CDT, when Diálogos Presented Readings from Recent Translations and Roundtable on Translating Experimental Wor...
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The New Orleans Poetry Festival returns
Lavender Ink / Diálogos is proud to be one of the founding organizers of The New Orleans Poetry Festival. The fest returns after a one-year Covid hiatus with a full month of online programming this A...
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The Murderous Sky Reviewed at Like the Dew
Steve Croft has posted an engaging and thorough review of Rosemary Daniell's The Murderous Sky at Like the Dew. Croft writes:
Throughout these poems that move from the idyllic-seeming promise of chi...
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Huapaya Reviewed at KR
"Huapaya’s poetry overwhelms; the words and images build against each other until they create the walls of their own world," says Katherine M. Hedeen of Giancarlo Huapaya's Sub Verse Workshop. Hedeen...
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Rodger Kamenetz Zoom Reading
Check out this reading with Rodger Kamenetz, as well as Kit Robinson and Rodrigo Toscano. March 24, 7 PM CDT.
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Hank Lazer reading from COVID19 SUTRAS
Hank Lazer reading from COVID19 SUTRAS, Ernest & Hadley virtual event, Sept 3, 2020, featuring excepts from the work followed by Q&A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKrlRkhHetA&fbclid=Iw...
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Discovering a new world…
"Pure incomprehensible jibberish" is how a Goodreads reviewer classified Nabile Farès' Exile and Helplessness, one of the three novels collected in the trilogy just released by Diálogos, Discovery of...
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Michael Clayton interview and review
An interview with Michael Clayton and review of Dead Roosters and Other Stories is up at Trueself. An excerpt:
Dead Roosters and Other Stories – recently published by Lavender Ink – is a striking co...
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Two New Interviews
Two extensive and informative interviews have recently been published with Lavender Ink / Diálogos author/translators.
First, Leslie Tate begins an interview with Mark Statman on the topics of Exi...
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Hank Lazer reviewed by John Yau
John Yau's thoughtful and thorough review of Hank Lazer's COVID19 SUTRAS on the Massart blog:
COVID19 SUTRAS is full of tenderness, empathy, anger, despair, sadness — the ping-pong ball of feelings ...
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Amanda Boyden at the National Post
Amanda Boyden's memoir, I Got the Dog: A Memoir of Rising is the topic of a front page article—an interview by Laurie Gough—in Canada's National Post this morning.
Read the article in the National P...
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Agadir reviewed at Kenyon Review
With his explosive style, surrealist imagery, and political critique, Khaïr-Eddine was among the most important avant-garde writers of his generation. Translators Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak forg...
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Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS reviewed at Tears in the Fence
Ian Brinton reviews Hank Lazers COVID19SUTRAS at Tears in the Fence.
What was immediately recognised by Rae Armantrout when commenting on the importance of this collection of poems was that it ‘brin...
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Angelus at The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel site continues its focus on Diálogos books, this time with some long overdue attention to Ruxandra Cesereanu's Angelus. Like many of our authors, Cesereanu is little known in the US ...
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Announcing the release of our second novel by Fernando Contreras Castro, translated by Elaine S. Brooks
"Blue Note is a novel short in length but enormous in its depth…" says Benedicto Víquez Guzmán, and Diálogos is happy to announce the release of the English translation by Elaine S. Brooks this month...
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Única at The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel blog has posted an extensive review of Única Looking at the Sea, by Fernando Contreras-Castro, translated by Elaine S. Brooks. Many thanks to John Alvey for this review and the const...
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Our time of Emergency
Emergency!, by Mohamed Hmoudane, our latest offering of poetry from North Africa, is a Small Press Distribution recommended book this month. Pick up the book, with full-color gravures by Bouchaïb Mao...
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A novel of (more than) London
Despite its title, Miloš Crnjanski's A Novel of London is far more than just a novel about London. As its hero wanders the streets and the bureaucracy of the bombed-out city in the wake of WWII, he ...
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Madame St. Clair
Madam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem is the story of a real-life woman’s rise from the slums of Martinique to the heights of Sugar Hill during the Harlem Renaissance. This remarkable story has been told ...
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Coronavirus and the Press
As everyone probably already knows, concerns over the spread of COVID-19 have cancelled most public events this season. While the Crnjanski and London panel discussion went on as scheduled at the Bri...
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Crnjanski at the London Book Fair
Miloš Crnjanski's A Novel of London will be the subject of a panel at the London Book Fair, March 9, 2020, at the British Library. The panel will feature the novel's translator Will Firth, Servian li...
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Zvonko Karanović Interview at Poetry International
Poetry International, in collaboration with 3:AM Magazine, is showcasing a group of amazing young European poets, including our own Zvonko Karanović, author of Sleepwalkers on a Picnic. Steven Fowle...
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Mihajlo “Misha” Djordjevic Book Prize
Rumor has it that Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry will be this year's recipient of the Djordjevic Prize...
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Sleepwalking on a Picnic…
Sleepwalkers on a Picnic introduces poet Zvonko Karanović to English-speaking readers, and in the genre of the prose poem, which is extremely rare in the Serbian poetics. Poems in prose were histori...
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Cadiot at Diálogos
Diálogos is pleased to announce the publication of a new translation of French visionary poet Olivier Cadiot. Anna Fitzgerald's translation of his remarkable A Mage in Summer (Un mage en été, origina...
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Will Firth on Translating Crnjanski
Will Firth's article on translating Miloš Crnjanski's A Novel of London is out at Los Angeles Review of Books. It'll be a book very soon now. For a foretaste, we have posted the entire text of David ...
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Seasons greetings from Lavender Ink / Diálogos
Seasons greetings from Lavender Ink / Diálogos. If Black Friday left you feeling gray, consider some gift or personal buying from an organization committed not to profiting off of quas...
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Djaout / Farès: Two New North African Releases
On 26 May, 1993, Algerian novelist and activist Tahar Djaout was shot in the head on his way to work in Algiers. He died in a coma a week later. One of his attackers, a member of the Armed Islamic Gro
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Papasquiaro in LARB
"In death, he is like an apparition. He shows up inconspicuously, tactfully, in a way he never did in life. No matter how deep you look into his past, you won’t find much because most of what he did w...
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Passing of Marthe Reed
Yesterday, April 10, 2018, Marthe Reed, beloved poet and friend to poets and lovers of poetry all over the world, especially to our community in New Orleans, died, suddenly and tragically, just befor
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NOPF Approaching
The third iteration of the New Orleans Poetry Festival kicks off in less than two weeks, on Friday evening, April 20. It has been rewarding and heartening to organize this gathering, which threatens t
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Mohamed Loakira
In one of his earliest publications Mohamed Loakira wrote: "The founding space of [my] predilection for writing was, without question, the Jamaa el Fna in Marrakech. This is where, as a child, I learn
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Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda, December 25, 1953 – 1998) was the co-founder, with Roberto Bolaño, of the Infrarrealist Movement and the basis for the character o
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Megan Burns Basic Programming
Megan Burns has an uncanny ability to adapt language, concretely, into a correspondent of the broken world it attempts to traverse. In her writing grammar itself becomes the "objective correlative" El
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Mamasafari / Olja Savičević
Those of you who have read the novel Adios, Cowboy by Olja Savičević, released in the US by McSweeney's in 2016, will find our excitement over Mamasafari, releasing from Diálogos in September, underst
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Lazer et. al. (The Magazine #7)
Hank Lazer's Thinking in Jewish (N20) is the twentieth notebook in his shape-writing series, drawing on Jewish traditions of text-and-commentary in conversation on the same page, this one in dialogue
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Shipman/Evans and Keats at Dogfish, (The Magazine #6)
Next Thursday, February 22, the eve of the anniversary of the death of John Keats, will mark the launch of Keats Is Not the Problem, a collaborative poem by Chris Shipman and Brett Evans, at the famou
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The Magazine #5, 180209, Will Firth
Over the past few months we have been negotiating with the Serbian Ministry of Culture, the Crnjanski Foundation, and translator Will Firth for the rights to publish the first English translation of M
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The Magazine #4, 180204, Jill Darling
Our comrades in the fight against literary banality, Spuyten Duyvil, have just put out Jill Darling's (re)iterations(s). We published Jill's a geography of syntax in 2016 and are happy to say Jill is
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The Magazine #3, 180128, Farès / Thompson
I doubt this press would exist-- at least not in its current form-- without the help and consultation of Peter Thompson, Professor of Romance Languages at Roger Williams University. It was out of ...
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The Magazine, #2, 180121, Victor Rodríguez Núñez and Katherine M. Hedeen
The current Kenyon Review (JAN/FEB 2018, Volume XL Number 1) features a special section, Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry, edited by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, translator and a...
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The Magazine, #1, 180114, Mark Statman and Izzy Oneiric
We initiate, this morning, what we hope to make regular weekly feature from Lavender Ink / Diálogos, a mini-magazine with a poem or two, a quick announcement, or other oddments. This morning, two poem
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From Única Looking at the Sea
An excerpt from Única Looking at the Sea, by Fernando Contreras Castro, translated by Elaine S. Brooks; the opening:
More from long habit than any other principle of order in the world, the sun began
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An Excerpt from The Virgin Mountain
From The Virgin Mountain, by Roberto Echavarren, translated by Donald Wellman and the author.
A doll of rough wood
carved with a knife,
dressed in sky blue
red flowers with yellow center
and yell
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Never Made in America Reviewed on Don Yorty’s Explorations
Don Yorty provides a thoughtful review of both the book by Martín Barea Mattos and Mark Statman's translation, along with video of their joint performance in Montevideo at the Mundial Poetico (shot ...
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Deep Well on the holiday shortlist at the Rumpus
Dan Bellm's Deep Well is on Barbara Berman's holiday short list at The Rumpus.
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John Vanderslice new book launch in NYC
Lavender Ink author John Vanderslice (Island Fog, 2014) launches his new book The Last Days of Oscar Wilde (Burlesque Press) at the Oscar Wilde bar in NYC next January 13. Should be a fun and decadent
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New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2018
Again this year Lavender Ink/Diálogos is proud to co-sponsor, with Trembling Pillow Press, the New Orleans Poetry Festival. This year the fest will take place April 20-22, 2018, once again at the ...
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Recent Writing from North Africa
I've been reading Francophone writers of Northern Africa lately and thought to recommend a few that might serve as background to those which have appeared and are appearing from Diálogos. Recent Franc
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Release of Fanon City Meu
Diálogos is proud to be releasing Jaime Luis Huenún’s Fanon City Meu, Spring, 2018, translated by Thomas Rothe. This book takes political poetry in a new direction, where the voices of the colonized a
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Hedeen article in Translation Review
The latest issue of Translation Review (#94) features a review by Kate Hedeen of Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems, recently released from Copper Canyon, which cites our "Open Letter" of November
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Release of Exile: Women’s Turn
The death of Nabile Farès in August, 2016, was a great loss to Francophone North African letters. Farès was a Berber, born in Collo, on the Kabylia peninsula, a part of Algeria that was never fully su
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Death of William Bradley
I am saddened to hear, this morning, that recent Lavender Ink author William Bradley has died. While it was obvious to me, both from the writing in his book of essays, Fractals, and from our personal
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The Virgin Mountain, Roberto Echavarren
Just released: The Virgin Mountain, a remarkable long poem by Uruguayan master Roberto Echavarren, translated by Donald Wellman and the author.
You don't know Latin American poetry unless you know Ro
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Youna Kwak wins French Voices Grand Prize
Youna Kwak, the brilliant translator of Véronique Bizot's Gardeners, due out from Diálogos this June, has won this year's Grand Prize in translation from the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) F
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Crossing by Anna Seghers reviewed in Kirkus
Advance reviews for the Douglas Irving translation of the great Anna Seghers's Crossing: A Love Story, are beginning to appear, first of all at Kirkus, who is also featuring the book in their Fall Pre
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The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing Reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Sometimes shocking and often strange, this is a fine debut from a striking new voice.
—Publishers Weekly
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Ralph Adamo interviewed in Rain Taxi
Extensive interview with Ralph Adamo in Rain Taxi, on the release of Ever....
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Open Letter to Forrest Gander and Copper Canyon Press
I have recently been having a conversation on Facebook with one of my favorite poets, Forrest Gander, concerning the upcoming release of The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda, which he has translated into En
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