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Lavender Ink and Diálogos were indeed affected by the sudden demise of Small Press Distribution, but perhaps less than some presses who depended on them solely. Lavender Ink and Diálogos books are available via variety of distribution methods, including direct sales from this website, and also via Asterism, who is now distributing our books to […]

One from Jeff

Poem from a Jumper Most people don’t live long enough to inhale water. There is no drowning at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, but there are fractured ribs almost every time, almost every rib, as if Adam himself could be shattered. Shards of bone travel like tiny scalpels, haphazardly pierce the spleen, the […]

One from Grzegorz

  Melancholia the weather is uninspiringsexless and very graythe neighbors want a proofso I show them my bleeding finger(they recoil away from the keyhole)meanwhile some cathas caught an obese flythe kind that likes shitstrangled it and let it go indignantlyI don’t know this cator who he isalso there’s this constant scrapingso much scraping the whole […]

A Pushcart for Adrade/Levitin

“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 offering Furrows at half price until January 31, 2024. Just use coupon code “pushcart” when ordering. Adeena Karasick’s Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings, with its stunning visualization […]

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 Corners, by Souad Labbize, translated from the French by Susanna Lang, with cover art by Annie Kurkdjian. Souad Labbize is […]

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 4 PM that Saturday, April 15, at Café Istanbul in the New Orleans Healing Center, along with her collaborator, designer/author Warren Lehrer.The release event, […]

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, specializing in Luis Cernuda, then returned to Mexico where he became a protégé of Octavio Paz and later president of PEN’s Mexico chapter. […]

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 respected in Europe, Baroja is one member of Spain’s famed Generation of ’98 who has received little attention in the US, despite the respect […]

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 he discusses Free Compositions and a wide range of other topics, including the new documentary film Poetry New York, releasing this month at the Chain NYC […]

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 regard Chad Foret’s Scenes from a Rain Country as the text where surrealism and intimacy swam a mutual reservoir,” says Jon Riccio of […]

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 beginning Thursday, 4-20. Here is the info for our reading: Lavender Ink / Dialogos Books Reading With:  Indran Amirthanayagam , Rosemary Daniell , Kit Robinson , Aicha Bassry , Norman […]

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 Louisiana’s River Writers. Come see us at Strangelove’s Beer Bar216 S. 11th St.Wendesday, March 23, 6-10:30pm At this reading will be Indran Amirthanayagam […]

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 in postmodern poetry, ironically the oldest subject of all is, for most contemporary poets, strictly off-limits. That subject is love. It actually takes courage to […]

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. See the complete listings here. You can also read more about Agadir and Khaïr-Eddine in this in-depth review article in Banipal, now available online at this link.

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 colonial family, her marriage to poet Abdellatif Laâbi and their work on the influential literary/political magazine Souffles, which earned Abdellatif a prison sentence and […]

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 opus. In appreciation, we’re giving 20% off the paperback OR the ebook, for the month of October. Check it out here.

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 opens with: Hank Lazer’s shape-writing walks a very narrow bridge, which is — as the Hasidic mystic, Reb Nahman of Breslov teaches […]

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 crash course in Crnjanski, as well as a knowledgable analysis of Will Firth’s translation: Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London (1971) is one of the key works of twentieth […]

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 terrible events,” written by writers who “play with fire . . . sometimes go as far as catching fire, as far […]