BY MEGAN CATTEL Poetry is very hit or miss for me (as a prose writer.) Sometimes the words roll right past me, and sometimes they leap off the page and [ … ]
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Poet Lerato Mathibe explores feminism, blackness and spirituality in ‘Baby Steps’
BY ELYSE RIBBONS NüProfile is a column featuring conversations with diverse creators working on China-related subjects. “Being black in China is also a blessing that I don’t take for granted,” [ … ]
Translation: Poems by Chinese feminist and revolutionary writer Qiu Jin
BY YILIN WANG While Qiu Jin is widely known as a Chinese revolutionary and her writing is often taught through that context, many existing translations of her poetry are either quite dated or [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #43: Literary translation and language as resistance, with Anne Henochowicz
Today’s guest, Anne Henochowicz, works at the intersection of literature and human rights. She has translated leaked propaganda directives and subversive Weibo posts, investigative journalism and poetry. She is currently [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #8: Eleanor Goodman on the art of translating Chinese poetry
In the eighth episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu, writer and translator, interviews Eleanor Goodman with guest host Lijia Zhang, author of Socialism Is Great! and most recently Lotus, and board [ … ]