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Poet & Translator from the Norwegian | and when the light comes it will be so fantastic | By Kristin Berget | @nupress | July 2025
“I cannot explain why, but the line ‘Tears simulate both / sea and grief / breath a wind’ stopped me in my tracks, its surprising observation reminding me that I, too, am of nature,” writes Kaelie Giffel in an @asymptotejrnl review. @northwesternup @Norwegianbooks @CappelenDamm
This month, we’re delighted to present ten different titles from ten different countries, including a lyrical litany of dreams from a Nobel laureate, a rollicking novel on poverty and police repression in a Brazilian favela, and much, much more… tinyurl.com/5n7szjts
So excited for tomorrow’s virtual launch of *and when the light comes it will be so fantastic* with Norwegian poet Kristin Berget and @northwesternup’s Marisa Siegel! Join the @ScanHouse event at the link below! @CappelenDamm @Norwegianbooks
"and when the light comes it will be so fantastic" weaves together themes of ecological and linguistic loss. Kristin Berget’s poetics point to landscapes used as sites of extraction, where exhausted phosphorus, starving clay layers, and forest machines are encountered. Hear more…
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP
Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 A Hymn | The Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. --Fanny Howe, RIP
Next week! It’s a dream to read with Norwegian poet Kristin Berget and to be in conversation with @northwesternup’s Marisa Siegel. Register for the @ScanHouse July 15 virtual reading (9 am Pacific, 11 am Central, noon Eastern, 6 pm CEST). @CappelenDamm @Norwegianbooks
Join us for a moving virtual conversation with Norwegian poet Kristin Berget as she discusses her tender and atmospheric book And When the Light Comes It Will Be So Fantastic on July 15 at 12 PM! In conversation with translator Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, Berget will explore…
Question: Y’ever sat up at night, thankin’ and thankin’ bout that late summer night you could never fergit? With that sangin’ Deadfeller? and that lil’ baby geeraff? If you have, then you might be the narrator of THE CALF, the dreamy, Dantean novel from Leif Høghaug.
Please join us for the July 15 virtual book launch of *and when the light comes it will be so fantastic* with @ScanHouse! So excited to share my translation of Kristin Berget’s poetry and be in conversation with @northwesternup’s editor Marisa Siegel! Register below! Bli med!
On July 15th, join us for a virtual book talk with Norwegian poet Kristin Berget on "when the light comes it will be so fantastic," with translator and poet Kathleen Maris Paltrineri. They’ll discuss the 2017 Brage Prize-nominated poetry collection, now out in translation from…
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Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility…
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Peace is not a utopian ideal. #Peace is a humble path made up of daily actions, and is woven with patience, courage, listening, and action. Today more than ever, peace requires our vigilant and creative presence.
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