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Photo : Helen Pletts, 海伦·普莱茨 Cambridge 2024. ‘Night-Shining White’, the bilingual poetry of Helen Pletts & Ma Yongbo 马永波 , published by Pete Taylor, Open Shutter Press, due out in 2025.

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Donika Kelly wrote part of her new poetry collection, "The Natural Order of Things," during her first year of teaching, at a time when U.S. drone strikes in military conflicts were killing civilians.

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Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.