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Robin Myers

4 months

My new poem "Playlist," on grief and wonderment and the semi-oracular lure of music in a time of both, is Poem of the Week in the @yalereview today. This poem is in CENTRO, a collection forthcoming from @Coffee_House_ in 2026. 💫

Robin Myers: "Playlist"

A poem by Robin Myers: "It didn’t tell me what to do, the playlist, but it helped."

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Robin Myers

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5 months

Mexico City eclipslets 🌙

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5 months

I'm haunted by a video I saw some time back of a very small child in Gaza, probably five or six years old, telling someone that she used to be beautiful, but now she's ugly. She touches her face and hair as she says this. The voice tells her of course she's beautiful, (1/)

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5 years

Lloro con las palabras de esta señora “no feminista”. ❤️

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4 years

No eres tú, es tu mascarilla con válvula.

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5 months

very beautiful, dear, why does she think she's ugly? Because of the corpses, says the child. I shivered to hear her say this, and I feel a ghost of that shudder moving through me every time I think of it: an extraordinarily tiny person trying to make sense of the horrors (2/)

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5 months

As Christina Sharpe recently wrote on here: How will any of the Palestinians who survive this ever be okay again? Who will be okay, again? (6/6)

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5 months

she's witnessed and experienced, of the damage she knows she's been subjected to, of the terrible certainty that she has been forever transformed. The transformation itself is unbearable to contemplate, incommensurable. None of us who has not experienced what she has (3/)

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5 months

this beautiful child touching her face and lamenting the sense of herself that she's lost over six months of indescribable violence. And I'm mystified to the point of horror by anyone who does not feel diminished by catching even a glimpse of such a thing. (5/)

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5 months

can possibly grasp the depth of this damage. But I do feel that a part of me will never be the same simply because I've seen, as I've repeatedly felt after seeing many other videos and images that many millions of other people around the world have also seen, (4/)

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Robin Myers

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2 years

Eternal shout-out to my friend who adopted a cat, named her Luna, discovered it was a male cat, and renamed him Diego Luna.

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Robin Myers

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4 years

El Oxxo panóptico.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

Whenever I eat a mango in Argentina, I think about how it pales in comparison to any mango I've ever eaten in Mexico. And then I think of a friend from India who once ate a mango in Mexico and said it paled in comparison to any mango he'd ever eaten in India.

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Robin Myers

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2 years

I feel you, buddy.

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Robin Myers

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4 years

¿Podemos cancelar el resto del año y dedicarnos a leer y a comer pan de muerto y ya? No más digo.

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7 months

From a shattering interview in the New Yorker with Dr. Seema Jilani, a pediatrician and senior technical adviser at the International Rescue Committee. World-shattering--

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Robin Myers

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2 years

Every so often I need to reach for this poem by Robert Creeley and am instantly, bittersweetly soothed.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Veinte poemas de amor y medio kilo de barbacoa.

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3 years

Laika didn't die for this bullshit.

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5 years

Ah, the polyamorous, those workaholics of the heart.

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5 years

Coronavirus llega a México y ya dice "gracias" en lugar de "no".

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10 months

I hope this email finds you incandescent with rage.

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4 years

Una amiga manda esta foto desde una "taquería" en Massachusetts. Tanto ella como yo pedimos disculpas.

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4 years

El viejo y el bar.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

And now, a poem.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

NFT = No Fucking Thanks

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Robin Myers

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5 years

Uno siempre vuelve a los lugares donde no entendió ni madres.

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Robin Myers

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2 years

Me encanta aprenderme nuevos dichos al traducir. Por ejemplo, para referirse a algún lugar que queda bien lejos: "donde el diablo perdió el sarape".

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Robin Myers

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5 years

“Every real poet is a private poet, but if they are a good poet their language will be powerful enough to speak privately to many people at the same time.” (Ilya Kaminsky)

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Robin Myers

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4 months

Israel has annihilated every university in Gaza and slaughtered thousands of students. This young man defended his thesis in a tent today. But please, Zadie Smith, can we get a few thousand more words about why protest rhetoric on US campuses is like weapons of mass destruction

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4 months

Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

I can't quite believe that my poem "Diego de Montemayor" has been selected for The Best American Poetry 2022, but today I'm allowed to say so.😳 The anthology will be published by Scribner in the fall.💫

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Robin Myers

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2 years

the bisexual urge to buy the flowers oneself

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3 years

Something is trying to be a book.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

I hope this email finds you wild.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Dios, concédeme el autoestima de una ardilla en el Bosque de Chapultepec.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Something I love about translating novels is getting to write a novel without having to write a novel.

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2 years

Hoy, después de una lectura, un señor preguntó muy consternado por el lenguaje inclusivo y cómo "defendernos" de él. Una poeta Ñuu Savi tomó el micrófono y dijo que habla y piensa desde un idioma que abarca cinco géneros, entonces a ella le parece que al español le falta. 💜

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Never not utterly haunted by this Jean Valentine poem.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

good morning

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Robin Myers

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2 years

Translated “editorial francesa” as “French press” until I realized what I’d done.

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4 years

Siempre que pasa la marimba por la calle, me apena no estar a la altura de su alegría.

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Robin Myers

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5 years

Que Dios nos guarde como PDF.

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4 years

Ah, Random House, el AirBnB de las editoriales.

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Robin Myers

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6 years

Si el Paraíso (según Borges) es algún tipo de biblioteca, pues el Infierno sin duda es algún tipo de banco.

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5 years

Cuando Dios cierra una puerta, abre un Oxxo.

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Robin Myers

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4 years

Es viernes y el cuerpo está harto de sí mismo.

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Robin Myers

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2 years

What a time to be alive, etc.

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4 years

“Se te estuvo dice y dice” y otros hermosos regaños intraducibles.

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Robin Myers

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3 months

Admiro muchísimo a @leilaguerriero2 . Qué increíble sorpresa ver que esta hermosa columna suya termine con unos versos de TENER (tr. @zaidenwerg ) 💜

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Robin Myers

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4 years

Calle renombrada ( @LaEnriquez1973 ). 💜

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Robin Myers

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2 years

Mrs. Dalloway said she would burn it all down herself.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

Me gusta imaginar que "empecinada" en realidad signifique "repleta de peces".

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Robin Myers

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4 years

Vi 'Rompan todo' y estoy ya muy harta de los hombres que traigan lentes oscuros en espacios interiores.

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Robin Myers

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3 months

Here we gooooo 😱

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Hola. Vengo a confesarles que llevo diez años de vidaenespañol diciendo "electrolitros" y apenas me cayó el veinte. Adiós.

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Robin Myers

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10 months

Today my poem-a-day newsletter turns three years old! Thanks to everyone who’s joined me in this little ritual, which continues to ground me each morning and bring me into contact with wonderful poems and people. If you’d like to sign up, the link’s in my bio 💫

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Quien quiera recibir un poema diario por correo, ¡pásame tu dirección! Mando más seguido en inglés porque es lo que más leo, pero siempre hay también en español. // If you'd like to receive a daily poem, send me your email! A mix of English (somewhat more often) and Spanish.

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3 years

Lo mejor que me ha pasado este año es estar en la lista de correos de @robin_ep_myers . 🖤

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Robin Myers

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3 years

It's exhausting, pandemically speaking, not to know how much hope we can afford to feel.

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Robin Myers

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2 years

Translation reminds me, as someone who both translates and has been translated, that any book--including and in fact especially the "original"--is just a version of something that can keep changing indefinitely. And does.

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Robin Myers

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2 years

A bit of translatorly news I'm very excited about ✨

Poetry Northwest

@poetrynw

2 years

Meet our new Translations Editor, Robin ( @robin_ep_myers )! Robin Myers (she/her) is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator who will take charge of our Crossings feature. Give her a warm welcome to the #PoetryNorthwest team!

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Robin Myers

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6 years

Voy a casa en Uber. El chofer se llama Marco Polo. Pero mi nombre es Robin y me han aplicado ya tantas bromas de Batman que me voy a quedar aquí sentada en un silencio de lo más cómplice y respetuoso.

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Robin Myers

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6 months

Friends, I have a bit of poetry news to share: I'm writing a book of prose poems called CENTRO that will be published by @Coffee_House_ , probably in early 2026. I'm really thrilled about getting to return as a poet to a press I've worked with as a translator. (1/2)

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Robin Myers

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5 months

LOVE TRAINING, a collection of poems by Andrés Neuman, has been longlisted for the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. I'm grateful to the judges for their generous attention to my work as a translator. But (1/

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Robin Myers

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1 year

Nick Cave on Charles Bukowski: "...I just don’t like Charles Bukowski. In my opinion, Charles Bukowski is the ‘Bukkake of Bad Poetry’, just blowing his junk around. I don’t like him. I just don’t. Not even a bit. No, not at all. Love, Nick"

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Selected anagrams of "omicron variant": macaroni iron TV caviar minor ton nirvana coo trim ovarian tic norm conman trivia or mantra rico vino romantic vain or carrion van omit Macron trivia no raccoon varmint I narc ovation rim orca minivan rot a vicar motor inn

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Robin Myers

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2 years

I'm excited and nervous to share "Hosts and Guests," an essay from my book-in-progress on poetry and translation, out today in @wwborders . It's about Mexico, Palestine, perpetually becoming a translator, and trying to make an always-changing home.

Hosts and Guests - Words Without Borders

Robin Myers reflects on her ever-shifting position as guest and host in her experiences living in Mexico and Palestine, and in her practice as a literary translator.

wordswithoutborders.org

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Qué hueva animarse a bañar, qué chido haberse bañado (una autobiografía que se llame).

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1 year

Y bueno, quién no.

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3 years

Hoy hace diez años llegué a vivir a la Ciudad de México sin saber, claro, que eso realmente era lo que estaba haciendo. Me conmueve recordar que tantas decisiones importantes sean así de a tientas.

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Robin Myers

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6 months

Can you even believe it?

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Robin Myers

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7 years

Una app de "Cómo te verías si tuvieras tantita madre".

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Robin Myers

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2 years

What if “the love of your life” just meant someone whose companionship helped you love your life?

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Robin Myers

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4 years

Ayer tuve una revelación: las tunas son deliciosas. ¿Por qué no me di cuenta antes? ¿Cuánto tiempo habré perdido en mi propia indiferencia hacia esta fruta modestamente sublime? Nunca más. Vivan las tunas.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Well, @WavePoetry is going to publish COPY, a searing, haunting book of poems by @DoloresDorantes that I’ve had the intense privilege of translating into English, and I still can’t quite believe it 💫 (Coming in Spring 2022!)

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Robin Myers

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3 years

Here’s a second poem in the fall issue of the @YaleReview . It wasn’t, as I guess is usually the case, the poem I meant to write.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

Buenos días a todes, pero sobre todo a la palabra "cachivache".

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Robin Myers

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2 years

A stranger in Argentina just told me via Instagram that her cat regularly seeks out my book among her many other books to sit and rest his head on. This is now my favorite review.🐱

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Robin Myers

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2 years

I’m moved beyond words (though trying to find a few) to be receiving an NEA fellowship this year. I’ll be translating @daniel_lipara ’s second book of poems, COMO LA NOCHE ADENTRO DE LOS OJOS, truly one of the most beautiful I’ve ever read.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

There's only one moral to the story here: it's mangos, mangos, mangos all the way down.

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4 years

No quiero “aprovechar” el tiempo sino habitarlo.

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3 years

Qué divertida es la palabra "croquis". Suena comestible.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

I have a new essay out today (excerpted from my book-in-prog. on poetry & translation) in @LAReviewofBooks . Among other things, it's a love letter to Mexico City--and a thank-you letter to the friends and poems who have always helped me find my way there.

Sharing Speech: On Translation as Conversation | Los Angeles Review of Books

Robin Myers writes about her experience of migrating to Mexico City and coming to translate Spanish poetry.

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4 months

Ah, the New York Times, where even Palestinian hope is confined to scare quotes.

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4 years

Volver al mismo cajero que una vez te tragó la tarjeta se siente como pasar por la casa de un ex.

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5 years

Naomi Shihab Nye, via @AriaAber .

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7 years

Me conmueve mucho el botón extra que le cosen a la etiqueta dentro de las camisas.

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5 months

a young Gazan woman who's trying to flee to safety in Egypt and pursue her dreams of becoming both a dentist and a writer. I'm going to contribute to her fundraiser here and would be very grateful if you'd join me. (7/7)

Help my family evacuate Gaza, organized by Nadine Murtaja

I'm Nadine Murtaja, a 20-year-old writer from Gaza, and I'm reaching out to you with a sto… Nadine Murtaja needs your support for Help my family evacuate Gaza

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Robin Myers

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3 years

One of my very favorite expressions.

Grubbing In The Filth

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3 years

Sat here, thinking about the immorality of the crab.

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1 year

Typo of the day: lust but not least.

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Robin Myers

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4 years

Una noticia bella: la gran @bestiecilla tradujo BLUETS, de Maggie Nelson, y @JampsterL acaba de publicar su versión. La edición es digital y gratuita; la traducción, hermosa. Pasen, pasen. 💙💙💙

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Robin Myers

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1 year

Another day, another unprompted email from a prominent translation theorist I have never met, chiding me for a sentence he dislikes in a recent personal essay! I think I might hang this one up on the refrigerator.

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Robin Myers

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9 months

I’ve been translating a book by the Argentine poet Susana Villalba that features a dog who’s in love with a tree. “i’m jealous of the love / i feel,” the dog says. “it’s bigger / than me // it’s better.”

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Robin Myers

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7 months

This part also totally did me in.

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Robin Myers

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1 year

Banda: ¿cuáles son sus poemas o poetas favorites (escribiendo en español) que les parezcan muy gracioses? Es para una amiga que pronto dará una clase sobre el humor en la literatura.

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Robin Myers

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3 years

@christapeterso One I've heard and always loved: "Throughout history, things have happened. Even now, things continue to happen."

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6 months

No news in over 24 hours from Bayan, a journalist who's been posting daily updates from Gaza City for all these months, after her brother's murder by Israeli snipers. I fear for her and her family; I am furious for her and her family.

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Israeli forces just murdered my only brother in front of my eyes. أخويا شهيد.

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6 years

Qué chido que un eclipse no se deje retratar por el pinche cel. A recibirlo con los ojos y las metáforas y un poco de humildad.

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1 year

Ojalá se pudiera vivir en este mundo sin categorías migratorias y estado-nacionales de ningún tipo. Pero hoy, después de muchos años, por fin tengo la residencia permanente mexicana, y confieso que es un gran alivio. Hasta me dan ganas de ir a Garibaldi.

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Robin Myers

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8 years

Vendrá la muerte y más que una pregunta tendrá un comentario.

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2 years

Any epiphany is also a loss, said my mother. It means you're already somewhere new.

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2 years

I'm translating the catalogue for a film festival and just read the bio of a director who was born in 2004. I need a drink.

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