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As seen in: The Boston Globe, Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, The Baffler, BOMB Magazine, Words Without Borders
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Self vs Rogue Island

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By Sawako Nakayasu, Sopo Japaridze
| The Baffler Verified
Put your hands up, says the island. I look around but it is still just me and the island. I meekly raise my hands a little, slightly higher than before—is that enough? All the way up, you little nitwit. This foul-mouthed island is nothing like the ones in the ads. It’s also unfair to call me little, when I am a perfectly average-sized human, and a deserted island of any size has an unfair advantage.
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“A Hidden but Necessary Labor”: Kate Briggs on Translation and Parenthood

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By Karen Phillips, Juan Vasquez, Juan Vásquez, Sawako Nakayasu, Lauren Goldenberg
| Words Without Borders Verified
The Long Form is the debut novel by the award-winning writer and translator Kate Briggs. Published in 2023, it narrates a day in the life of a mother caring for her baby girl and trying to find time to read Tom Jones, and considers the relationship between what she and her child are doing, their experiences of time, and what it means to write fiction.
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National Poetry Month: Sawako Nakayasu

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By Sawako Nakayasu
| The Rumpus
Are met with three humans. The ants roll their eyes at the predictable questions of the humans: Are they making a pilgrimage? Are they three individual ants or part of a larger group? Have they arrived of their own accord or have they been placed there by external forces? Is that light reflecting off of their backs a consequence of our observational process, or something else, perhaps a symbol of their luminous potential to rescue us from the in-progress apocalypse?
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