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A seasonly-ish reading series in translation, most frequently @molassesbooks

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Tonight! Molasses Books at 8PM! Joining Brian Robert Moore and Olga Mikolaivna, Judah Rubin will be reading from his forthcoming translation of RED LIP PERIL by Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod @uglyducklingpresse 💋 *******************************************************Judah Rubin is the editor of A Perfect Vacuum. His translation of Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod’s poetry, Red Lip Peril, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse, as is a translation of Carlos Soto Roman’s Antuco from Cardboard House in 2026. A recent essay on post-Estallido poetries in Chile and Peru is in the most recent Chicago Review. taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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Obviously very excited to have @bri_rob_moore read from his recently-released translation of IN THE FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano @pushkinpress_us for the next Another Way to Say this Friday 8PM @molassesbooks : it’s a book that weaves so many of the things I love, mountains, eulogy, diaristic prose. ****************************************************Brian Robert Moore is the translator of Lalla Romano’s In Farthest Seas and A Silence Shared, Michele Mari’s Verdigris and You, Bleeding Childhood, and the work of other acclaimed Italian authors. His translations of Michele Mari have received the O. Henry Prize and two PEN Translates Awards, while his translation of Romano’s A Silence Shared was runner-up for the 2024 John Florio Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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FRIDAY, SEPT 19, @molassesbooks olga mikolaivna will be reading from the forthcoming collection, “There Won’t Be a Culmination”, by the Ukrainian, Russian-language poet Stanislav Belsky, whose “…long metaphor / begins / like / a penumbral boulevard…” (“Five Poems by Stanislav Belsky, trans. from Russian by olga mikolaivna @blacksunlit 🖤) taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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Third reader is, yes, editor of A PERFECT VACUUM Judah Rubin (!) who will read from his forthcoming translation of RED LIP PERIL by Peruvian poet Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod for @uglyducklingpresse ! He’ll be joined by @bri_rob_moore w/ IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano and @_dithyramb_ w/ THERE WON’T BE A CULMINATION by Stanislav Belsky (@pushkinpress_us and @lavender.ink.dialogos respectively) 🎰 taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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SEPTEMBER 19 @molassesbooks ! Join us in celebrating recent release IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano translated by @bri_rob_moore and a forthcoming collection of poetry THERE WON’T BE A CULMINATION by Stanislav Belsky translated by @_dithyramb_ as well as a *secret third reader* tba! taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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TONIGHT at 8PM @molassesbooks we have Olena Jennings reading from Ukrainian poet Anna Malihon’s GIRL WITH A BULLET forthcoming from @worldpoetrybooks !! ******************************************************Olena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press), the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press). She is the translator of collections by Ukrainian poets Kateryna Kalytko (co-translated with Oksana Lutsyshyna), Iryna Shuvalova, Vasyl Makhno, and Yuliya Musakovska. Her translation of Anna Malihon’s Girl with a Bullet is forthcoming from World Poetry Books. She lives in Queens, New York where she founded and co-curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press. taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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Tomorrow June 20th @molassesbooks we’re getting a sneak peak reading of the forthcoming THE LAKE’S WATER IS NEVER SWEET by the translator Hope Campbell Gustafson to kick off class-war summer. ******************************************************Hope Campbell Gustafson’s book-length translations include Commander of the River by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah and Islands-New Islands: A Vagabond Guide to Rome by Marco Lodoli. Forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau, on July 8th, is The Lake’s Water is Never Sweet by Giulia Caminito. @spiegelandgrau taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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Don’t miss the chance to hear C. Francis Fisher @c__francis__ read from her translation of Joyce Mansour’s sublime and surreal poems found IN THE GLITTERING MAW published by @worldpoetrybooks on June 20th, 8 PM, @molassesbooks ! ****************************************************C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Review, the New England Review, and the Adroit Journal among others. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, appeared with World Poetry Books in 2024. She has been supported by fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. by @anotherwaytosay

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Ring in summer @molassesbooks with Another Way to Say reading series in translation featuring translators C. Francis Fisher, Hope Campbell Gustafson, and Olena Jennings with a couple of ✨forthcoming✨ titles from @worldpoetrybooks and Spiegal & Grau, as well as radical-surreal IN THE GLITTERING MAW, a collection of poetry by Joyce Mansour (also World Poetry Books). taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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TONIGHT at 8PM @molassesbooks Kaitlin Rees is reading from her translation of don’t hide the madness by Nhã Thuyên forthcoming from @uglyducklingpresse ! ********************************************************Kaitlin Rees is a translator, editor, and public school teacher based in New York City. She translates from the Vietnamese of Nhã Thuyên, with whom she co-founded AJAR, the small bilingual journal-press that organizes the occasional poetry festival. Her translations include moon fevers (Tilted Axis, 2019), words breathe, creatures of elsewhere (Vagabond Press, 2016), and the forthcoming book of poetry taste of water. taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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“…The lunar-wanderer has bent before the world, / And my soul is visible to him.” George Kovalenko’s translations of Andrey Platonov’s wonderfully nocturnal “Evening Roads” appears in the latest issue of @asymptotejrnl over 100 years after the original. Come catch George read FRIDAY @molassesbooks !
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George Kovalenko’s poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in such venues as The American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Lana Turner, and The Southern Review. He holds an MFA from NYU and a PhD from the University of Denver, where he served as poetry and translations editor for Denver Quarterly. He is currently a visiting scholar at NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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🍰 8PM FRIDAY @molassesbooks Aiden Farrell is reading for Another Way to Say with a preview of THE VITALS (Marie de Quatrebarbes) forthcoming from @worldpoetrybooks ******************************************************Aiden Farrell’s translation of The Vitals by Marie de Quatrebarbes will be published in Spring 2025 by World Poetry. Aiden’s poetry and translations have been featured in Asymptote, Denver Quarterly, Mercury Firs, Fence, and elsewhere, and have received support from the Albertine Translation Fund, le Centre National du Livre, and the McCrindle Foundation. He is the managing editor of Futurepoem. Born in France, Aiden lives in Brooklyn. taken in Molasses Books by @anotherwaytosay

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