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2 months ago | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Elete Nelson-Fearon |Lia Galvan Lisker |Alexander Aguayo |Tobias Carroll
Each year, WWB is proud to publish over a dozen writers whose work has never before appeared in English. This IWD, meet eight women writers who we introduced to anglophone readers this past year. 1. Emma BraslavskyEmma Braslavsky writes, moderates, curates, and directs. In her short story “The VANISHÄVEN Furniture System: A Demonstration,” Braslavsky introduces a furniture system that aims to solve one of the world’s crises—but creates a few problems of its own.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Lia Galvan Lisker |Alexander Aguayo |Isabel Zapata |Nina Perrotta
This reading list spotlights books by nine Mexican women writers who are shaping the literary scene in Mexico and beyond. These novels, works of nonfiction, and short story collections were all translated into English by women, and each denounces and resists various forms of violence in its own distinct way. 1.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Uttaran Das Gupta |Kaori Fujino |Lia Galvan Lisker |Gozo Yoshimasu
Preface—For a Book with an Intimidating Title1Why and how does this thing called “poesy” or poetic mind occur in our mind? I’m giving a humble introduction to this book that has a somewhat intimidating title, What is Poetry, while clumsily speaking and carefully listening to my own voice.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Wang Jiaxin |Nga Ba |Lia Galvan Lisker
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Emma Braslavsky |J. D. Kurtness |Lia Galvan Lisker
Archaeologist, my goodness! That’s a lofty word. But it is correct in principle; I actually am an archaeologist by profession. It’s just that today archaeology is something completely different. We no longer live in times when we have to uncover a fragile past with the utmost caution, gloved and with steady hands, with little brushes and spatula knives, and then decipher and put together the missing pieces of the puzzle through years of contemplation.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Uttaran Das Gupta |Chantal Spitz |Binoy Majumdar |Lia Galvan Lisker
In a new anthology titled Again I Hear These Waters, poet and translator Shalim M. Hussain has collected poetry and songs from the Miyah community of Assam, a state in the northeast of India. The community is formed by the descendants of Bengal-origin Muslims living in the low-lying river islands (called “char”) of the Brahmaputra River and growing rice and jute for their livelihoods.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Chantal Spitz |Uttaran Das Gupta |Titaua Peu |Lia Galvan Lisker
what is striking is the orderliness the orderliness and the space the orderliness and the silence the orderliness and the peace orderliness like a mold in which everything shrinks back dies back holds back orderliness like an insult to enfeebled atrophied abolished humanity orderliness like something forgotten defective empty I remember I live on in my country as my country lives on in me unaware of the pitiless web that is weaving itself and will soon change our way of life unaware like all...
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Chantal Spitz |Paul Wamo |Lia Galvan Lisker
Poet Virginie Hoifua Te Matagi Tafilagi of Wallis and Futuna celebrates Pacific peoples and their age-old history of transoceanic voyaging. Wallis and Futuna IslandsTravelHistoryHeritageIslands To the immortal Hōkūle’aA shore, a call,In secret accordThe coast quickens to the windIts mute response. A bird sings loud and longAlights amid the daysWhen marriage terms are setAnd soil and rock contested.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Paul Wamo |Kristian Lundberg |Déwé Gorodé |Lia Galvan Lisker
Paul Wamo Reads “Blue Rebirth.” Being Black with My Own NightFour texts from a series titled “Black Fear” about my relationship with otherness during my stay in France as a black-skinned person, 2014–2019. I See HimI see him walking, he stops, he walks again, he doesn’t walk the way he did just before, it looks as though he’s sweating, he’s in a hurry, he passes by us, he sits down for a moment, his face is telling us something, what? what?
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Déwé Gorodé |Sinan Antoon |Paul Wamo |Lia Galvan Lisker
Frida had just two weeks left at home, before she had to leave the island to continue her training, when her great friend Lenka introduced her to Albert, known as Ali, a worker on a barge at the port. After several drinks and hours of hot, slow dances where they melted into each other, he offered to take her home.
