Restar av ungdom / Line Nagell Ylvisåker

Line Nagell Ylvisåker er journalist og bur i Longyearbyen med mann og to born. Ho jobba i Svalbardposten frå 2006 til 2018, og gav våren 2020 ut sakprosaboka Verda mi smeltar. Å leve med klimaendringar på Svalbard.

Foto: Ragnhild Utne/Samlaget

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5. september 2020

Nickole Brown / A Jonah

You can read the poem here: A Jonah

Nickole Brown is an American poet who lives in North Carolina. Her first book, Sister, was originally published in 2007h, but a new edition was reissued by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2018. Her second, Fanny Says, came out from BOA Editions and won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. She teaches at a number of places, including the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs in Asheville, where she periodically volunteers at three different animal sanctuaries. Currently, she’s at work on a bestiary of sorts about these animals, but it won’t consist of the kind of pastorals that always made her (and most of the working-class folks she knows) feel shut out of nature and the writing about it—these poems speak in a queer, Southern-trash-talking kind of way about nature beautiful, damaged, dangerous, and in desperate need of saving. A chapbook of these poems called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and another sequence called The Donkey Elegies was published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in early 2020.

22. august 2020

Poems / Randi Ward

Dam

Lonesome

lock whistles

never know

why

they’re wailing

but blame

the river.

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15. august 2020

Julia Cimafiejeva (Юля Цімафеева): My European Poem

Tre dikt av Julia Cimafiejeva, gjendiktet av Christian Kjelstrup

This poem should be written in English.

This poem should be written in German.

This poem should be written in French,

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8. august 2020

Fredy Chicangana / Two poems

Fredy Chicangana is an indigenous poet who writes in both Spanish and Quechua. His indigenous name, Wiñay Mallki, means «rooted in time.» A member of the Yanakuna Mitmak Nation in Sur-Oriente del Cauca, Colombia, he received the National University of Colombia «Humanity & the Word» Prize in 1993. In 2008, he received the Nosside de Poesía Global Multilingüe Prize in Italy. His poems have been published in various magazines and journals in Colombia and abroad. His poetry collections include Kentipay Llattantutamanta/El colibrí de la noche desnuda (2008) and Samay Pisccok pponccopi muschcoypa/Espiritu de pájaro en pozos del ensueño (2010). Chicangana is involved in several initiatives to preserve and promote Yanakuna identity and preserve spaces sacred to the Yanakuna. (www.wordswithoutborders.org)

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27. juni 2020

BREVSKRIVERNE / Siri Hjelm Jacobsen

// Photo credit: Kajsa Gullberg

Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen er skønlitterær forfatter og debuterede i 2016 med romanen Ø. Bogen er solgt til udgivelse i Italien, Frankrig, England og Ungarn, og blev i 2019 præmieret med den internationale kunst- og litteraturpris MARetica. Havbrevene, som udkom i december 2018, var året efter blandt de fem nominerede til Schadeprisen. Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen er også litteraturanmelder på Weekendavisen, oversætter og foredragsholder.

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21. juni 2020

Victoria Chang / Poems

/ Credit: Margaret Molloy

Victoria Chang is an American poet and children’s writer. Her fifth book of poems, OBIT, is now out on Copper Canyon Press.

Her prior book of poems, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. Her third book of poetry, The Boss was published by McSweeney’s as part of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series in July 2013—it won a PEN Center USA literary award and a California Book Award. Her second poetry collection is Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Her first book, Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Chang is also the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (2004). In addition to editing, she writes children’s books and teaches in Antioch University’s MFA program. (Sources: Wikipedia and Poetry Foundation).

// Victoria Changs nye bok OBIT gjør noe jeg ikke har sett før. Minnene av en død mor blir til en original omskrivning av avisenes nekrolog-sjanger, bare at det her er språket som blir gjenstand for minnetalene, samt høfligheten, framtiden, morens tann, som døde to ganger… Jeg leser disse diktene og tekstene også som spirituelle avskjeder med en verden vi trodde at vi kjente. ///

NWCC say thanks for the poems, all of them an excerpt from OBIT (2020):