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NOPF

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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Of Daewoo

François Bon, the French writer, translator, and activist, traveled to the Lorraine region of France in 2002 to study the effects of the sudden closing of two Daewoo factories there on the “factory t...
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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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Sleepwalking on a Picnic…
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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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Laabi
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Laabi

We announce with pride the release of Perishable Poems (Poèmes Périssables) by Abdellatif Laâbi in a new translation by Peter Thompson, continuing our focus on post-colonial literatures of northern A...
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Cadiot at Diálogos
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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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Papasquiaro in LARB
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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
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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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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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Release of Fanon City Meu
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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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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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