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@twolinespress.comMark your calendars for a virtual event with Elvira Navarro and Melissa Lozada-Oliva, presented by the International Library on 9/28/26 at 12:00pm PT / 3:00pm ET! See all the details and register for the free event here: www.catranslation.org/event/the-in...
@twolinespress.comAnd you can read a conversation we had with Elvira Navarro about the book on our website: www.catranslation.org/journal/a-co...
@twolinespress.comYou can read "The Washing Machine," the opening story of the collection, in Harper's Magazine here: harpers.org/archive/2026... 🩸
@twolinespress.comHappy happy publication day to BLOOD IS DRIPPING ONTO THE COURTYARD by Elvira Navarro, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney! 🩸 www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/b...
@clmporg.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.comOur September roundup features @contramundumpress.bsky.social, @poetose.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @sfwp.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @twolinespress.com, @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, @regalhouse.bsky.social, @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.com#SFinTranslation out today from @twolinespress.com :
@cameronlmitchell.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.comTwo latest arrivals from @twolinespress.com
1 - Blood is Dripping onto the Courtyard by Elvira Navarro
2 - Splendor - Trans Poets
Can't wait to dive in!
@nichollsm86.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.comnew books from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and @twolinespress.com, a reprint of a book on my tbr for ages and translated stories from Elvira Navarro, loved her book A Working Woman. 📚✨
@twolinespress.comCongratulations to @jacqlyy.bsky.social and Hon Lai Chu! MENDING BODIES is on the longlist for ALTA's National Translation Award in Prose! 🪡🧵
@wirobooks.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.comThis collection is a study in the infinite possibilities of fiction. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @twolinespress.com @alicestephens.bsky.social #swell #sonbomi #booksintranslation #korean #southkorea #shortstories #booksky #bookreview
@twolinespress.comDon't miss our community event series in celebration of SPLENDOR, coming to a city near you!🪼https://www.catranslation.org/event/read-trans-poets-a-community-event-series-in-celebration-of-splendor/
@twolinespress.comHappy happy publication day to SPLENDOR: Trans Poets! 🪼 “One hundred legs in one hundred slippers. The jellyfish guides you / to a transparent bedroom: Allow me to dream your dream for you. / You shake your head: I can do this myself.”—from Kim Sono’s “Taming Flesh” translated by Eunice Lee 🪼
@oldpaperandcats.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.com📚🖊️ There’s a woman who carries her tiny husband around in a box. There’s a storm that is a metaphor for death and the world beyond and the ghosts stuck in between. These stories all take a strange turn.
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Splendor: Trans Poets by 5 poets, & translators, & Intro by @rckylrnts.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🤍
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@catranslation.org Calico series #14 💜
I got this gorgeous brand new book (plus goodies! See Image 4) in the mail b/c …
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The book you hold in your hands participates in this shift of the light, even if it does not exclusively spell out the mechanics of that change or remain solely & expensively interested in it. These poets assume a fuller breadth. Assembled here, these poets represent our Globe, one undergoing a series of ongoing revolutions not just in identity, but in Ways of Being—of Being with Each Other; that is, in our relations and, always, in power. Those of us Trans Beings, or our allies, understand the exponential rate of Time's arrow, and welcome the world steadily arriving by way of that Time, and we are in love with it. You get the feeling reading these poems that each poet adores their glorious change, whether that change is seen on the surface or sits more privately, nestled deep in the Soul's core. These poems assert we have always been who we are. Those of us Trans Beings recognize the world that is today, as if another bolt of lightning has in fact arrived, straight from God, forcing us all to be whole, to be intact and complete. So that we can be our own soulmates.
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End of the introduction "On (Trans) Ways of Being" by Rickey Laurentiis in Splendor: Trans Poets (p 19)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreihxxomdyqlbkq5fk75657yvetvly5tsi6qqhdy2tn2tbpuvn6hqsq@jpeg)
![Poem on p 75 of Splendor: Trans Poets shown.
An almost-see-through sticker on the window
It looks like stained glass
breaks the light the same way
Take a big sip of water
Tilt your head from side to side
It really feels like the ocean
in your mouth
The same cool weight
as holding movement between your hands
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From The Ocean in Your Mouth by Luka Holmegaard, translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russel](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreic3bfqui6yd32ga25ffjrteudzmhccnyd546won3vjga3ixerz6xy@jpeg)
![Swag collection shown. The main prize is a canvas tote bag: it’s emblazoned with a black, white, & orange stylized San Francisco, with about 16 cats, most with speech bubbles saying “meow” in diverse languages 😻
On & around the bag are:
a Two Lines Press (fluorescent green) bookmark & (orange) sticker,
a (yellow) TBW Books matchbook that says “Do your part… BUY MORE BOOKS!!!! say yes to truth and NO to COWARD SCUM,”
a pink sticker reading (in white & black) READ TRANS POETS,
an orange coozy stating “[in white] I’m looking at the sea, [in black] it’s all I do.”
& a sliver of a postcard from The Center for the Art of Translation featuring Lauren Tamaki’s illustration. Scenes of someone reading in City Lights (over the word “Booksellers”), 2 people walking toward the Chinatown gate, & a dressed up person singing under flowers (with “Yerba Buena) are visible.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreicquuxmj6ruw4nvuqtbaq6e3nqmhoypv35apfij6xlvywryp7exbi@jpeg)
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.com#SFinTranslation Publisher Spotlight:
@twolinespress.com has published more than a dozen excellent works of SFT from a wide variety of languages:
@twolinespress.comJoin us next month for an online conversation about BLOOD IS DRIPPING ONTO THE COURTYARD with author Elvira Navarro in conversation with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, presented by the International Library! 🩸 Find registration and event details here: www.catranslation.org/event/the-in...
@translibrarian.bsky.socialReposted by @twolinespress.comFor those in the San Francisco area
@twolinespress.comBay Area! Join us for a hometown celebration of SPLENDOR: Trans Poets at Green Apple Books on the Park on Thursday, September 17th! Hope to see you there👋🪼 RSVP for this free event and find all the details here: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
