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<\/p>\nMihaela Moscaliuc, Ph.D., associate professor of English, is the co-editor of \u2018Border Lines: Poems of Migration,\u2019 published by the Everyman\u2019s Library imprint of Knopf\/Penguin Random House on Sept. 8. In the new collection\u2014the first of its kind\u2014poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of the experience of migration. The volume is co-edited by Michael Waters, Ph.D., recently retired professor of English at Monmouth University.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe movement of peoples from one space to another, sometimes forcibly, as with the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears, or courageously and voluntarily, as with the great migrations from Eastern Europe, Asia, and, more recently, Africa and Latin America to the United States and Western Europe, has been accompanied by immeasurable emotional and psychological displacements,\u201d Moscaliuc writes in the foreword. \u201cWhere is home? Is it the motherland, the left-behind world of birthplace and ancestry, or is it the strange but fresh landscape of possibility and promise? Which language articulates the private self, which the public?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Border Lines\u2019 brings together more than 100 poets representing more than 60 nationalities, including Mahmoud Darwish, Czeslaw Milosz, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ruth Padel, Warsan Shire, Derek Walcott, and Ocean Vuong. Their poems offer moving stories of displacement and new beginnings in such places as France, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A monument to courage and resilience, \u2018Border Lines\u2019 offers an intimate and uniquely global view of the experience of immigrants in our rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n
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Whatever their circumstances, these travelers share the challenge of adapting to being strangers in a strange land. \u201cThroughout the long history of these arduous journeys, poets have given voice to those who experience shifts of language and consciousness, spiritual deprivation and renewal, familial separation and reunion,\u201d Moscaliuc writes.<\/p>\n
Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0\u2018Immigrant Model.\u2019\u00a0\u2018Father Dirt,\u2019 and the forthcoming \u2018Cemetery Ink,\u2019 and the translator of two collections of poetry. She has published scholarship in the field of Romani (Gypsy) studies and is the recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from\u00a0\u2018Prairie Schooner;<\/em>\u2019\u00a0residency fellowships from MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Le Chateau de Lavigny; an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania.<\/p>\n With Poet Laureate of New York State Alicia Ostriker and translator Tess O\u2019Dwyer, Moscaliuc is also curating \u2018The New Colossus Translation Project,\u2019 hosted by the American Jewish Historical Society, which aims to render Emma Lazarus\u2019s famous 1883 sonnet in as many languages as possible. She was also poetry guest editor for the Spring\/Summer 2020 issue of \u2018Epiphany,\u2019 and since January has been translation editor for the literary journal \u2018Plume.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mihaela Moscaliuc, Ph.D., associate professor of English, is the co-editor of \u2018Border Lines: Poems of Migration,\u2019 published by the Everyman\u2019s Library imprint of Knopf\/Penguin Random House on Sept. 8. In the new collection\u2014the first of its kind\u2014poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of the experience of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802249439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802249269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802249269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802249269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802249269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802283268,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802249269\/revisions\/40802283268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802249439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802249269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802249269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802249269"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802249269"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802249269"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802249269"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802249269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}