slang12.bsky.social
@slang12.bsky.social
Writer and translator, most recently published Like This (chapbook of original poems) and My Soul Has No Corners (translations of poems by the Algerian-French poet Souad Labbize), winner of the 2024 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize from December Magazine.
I'm not even a competent photographer--I asked a total stranger at Montrose Point how to take this mediocre picture of the northern lights. But I loved being there with so many fellow Chicagoans, out to see something beautiful together after months of living under siege from our own government.
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm not even a competent photographer--I asked a total stranger at Montrose Point how to take this mediocre picture of the northern lights. But I loved being there with so many fellow Chicagoans, out to see something beautiful together after months of living under siege from our own government.
Great reading last night to end the @littranslate.bsky.social conference. Thanks to Sarabande & @roberteshoe.bsky.social for organizing! Such a pleasure to read with fellow Third Coast Translators Collective translators Alta L. Price, Sarah A Rae, Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, and Andrea Avey.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great reading last night to end the @littranslate.bsky.social conference. Thanks to Sarabande & @roberteshoe.bsky.social for organizing! Such a pleasure to read with fellow Third Coast Translators Collective translators Alta L. Price, Sarah A Rae, Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, and Andrea Avey.
Couldn't we use a breath of fresh air from abroad? If you're in Tucson on Thurs., 11/6, come to a reading of translated literature! I'll be reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer and translator whose poems focus on themes of exile and love. Friends & colleagues reading as well!
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Couldn't we use a breath of fresh air from abroad? If you're in Tucson on Thurs., 11/6, come to a reading of translated literature! I'll be reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer and translator whose poems focus on themes of exile and love. Friends & colleagues reading as well!
The treat I got on Halloween--the new issue of @agnimagazine.bsky.social with my translations of Christine Guinard's poems. She's a French poet whose family fled to France during La Retirada, when half a million Spaniards escaped Franco's army. Her family's stories echo through her voice.
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The treat I got on Halloween--the new issue of @agnimagazine.bsky.social with my translations of Christine Guinard's poems. She's a French poet whose family fled to France during La Retirada, when half a million Spaniards escaped Franco's army. Her family's stories echo through her voice.
I have a new review at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social--hope you enjoy! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/alin...
REVIEWS — RHINO — My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu - Reviewed by Susanna Lang
by Alina Stefanescu Reviewed by Susanna Lang these angels are not beneficent beings
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October 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I have a new review at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social--hope you enjoy! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/alin...
Grateful to find two of my poems in the new issue of I-70 Review, along with poems from so many writers I've known and admired over the years. And, since it's Halloween, the jack-o'-lantern I carved yesterday!
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Grateful to find two of my poems in the new issue of I-70 Review, along with poems from so many writers I've known and admired over the years. And, since it's Halloween, the jack-o'-lantern I carved yesterday!
Thanks to @swwim.bsky.social for publishing this poem, written when we first moved into our apartment in Uzès! Today we have already left that home, will return to our Chicago home in a couple of days. In a between place, happy to be reminded of that beginning.
From “Starting Over” by Susanna Lang
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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Poem #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #StartingOver #SusannaLang #MondayPoem
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thanks to @swwim.bsky.social for publishing this poem, written when we first moved into our apartment in Uzès! Today we have already left that home, will return to our Chicago home in a couple of days. In a between place, happy to be reminded of that beginning.
Happy to read Christine Guinard's poems with friends & colleagues in Tucson! Thanks to Third Coast Translators Collective & @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for organizing this event. Christine's poems, that grew out of her family's history of fleeing Franco's army in 1939, are painfully relevant today.
October 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Happy to read Christine Guinard's poems with friends & colleagues in Tucson! Thanks to Third Coast Translators Collective & @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for organizing this event. Christine's poems, that grew out of her family's history of fleeing Franco's army in 1939, are painfully relevant today.
I am happy to have another zuihitsu up at Painted Pebble Lit Mag: paintedpebblelit.com/s-lang-unpre...
S. Lang, Unprepared - Painted Pebble Lit Mag
Susanna Lang Unprepared The cold shouldn’t have taken me by surprise, but I’m not ready. Can’t find my mittens, my wool socks have last winter’s holes. Roses and snapdragons freeze to their stems, sti...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I am happy to have another zuihitsu up at Painted Pebble Lit Mag: paintedpebblelit.com/s-lang-unpre...
In Tucson on 11/6? Come to a reading of translated literature! I'm reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer & translator whose poems focus on exile & love. Excited to read with so many talented translators, so many friends! (Apologies for the earlier, incorrect announcement....)
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In Tucson on 11/6? Come to a reading of translated literature! I'm reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer & translator whose poems focus on exile & love. Excited to read with so many talented translators, so many friends! (Apologies for the earlier, incorrect announcement....)
I am in France but will be with you in spirit, Chicago!
October 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am in France but will be with you in spirit, Chicago!
Photos from a walk in Uzès, France, respite from the news. My admiration & gratitude to those with courage & vision to lead with love when it is easy to feel only anger & fear--my alderwoman, @ward33chicago.bsky.social, my Congressista, @ramirez.house.gov, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, others.
September 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Photos from a walk in Uzès, France, respite from the news. My admiration & gratitude to those with courage & vision to lead with love when it is easy to feel only anger & fear--my alderwoman, @ward33chicago.bsky.social, my Congressista, @ramirez.house.gov, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, others.
PLEASE contact your Congressional representative and ask them to speak out and to vote against Section 226 of H.R. 5300! This provision would allow the Secretary of State to revoke passports from U.S. citizens based on alleged “support” for terrorism — without due process or a criminal conviction.
September 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
PLEASE contact your Congressional representative and ask them to speak out and to vote against Section 226 of H.R. 5300! This provision would allow the Secretary of State to revoke passports from U.S. citizens based on alleged “support” for terrorism — without due process or a criminal conviction.
I am grateful to Action, Spectacle for publishing one of my zuihitsu. You can find it here: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
Susanna Lang - poetry — Action, Spectacle
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September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I am grateful to Action, Spectacle for publishing one of my zuihitsu. You can find it here: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
The AP got much better photos than I did! Good to see accurate reporting on a demonstration. Most media reported "hundreds" at the Chicago Labor Day march, when it was clear from their aerial photos that we had thousands.
Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans
CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The AP got much better photos than I did! Good to see accurate reporting on a demonstration. Most media reported "hundreds" at the Chicago Labor Day march, when it was clear from their aerial photos that we had thousands.
Engaging panel yesterday on "writing refuge," moderated by Third Coast Translators Collective member @izidoraangel.bsky.social at Printers Row Lit Fest. It was a mini-reunion of TCTC translators Collective--I was sitting with Shara Kronmal and Jason Grunebaum.
September 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Engaging panel yesterday on "writing refuge," moderated by Third Coast Translators Collective member @izidoraangel.bsky.social at Printers Row Lit Fest. It was a mini-reunion of TCTC translators Collective--I was sitting with Shara Kronmal and Jason Grunebaum.
Chicago says NO to ICE and the National Guard! No apocalypse in this city.
September 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Chicago says NO to ICE and the National Guard! No apocalypse in this city.
Thanks to Farol: Journal of Literature and Other Arts for publishing my translations of Hélène Dorion's poems, from her collection Hearts, Like Books of Love. So happy to bring her luminous voice into our country (and beyond), in a dark time! faroljournal.com/2025/08/22/h...
Hélène Dorion
Cœurs, comme livres d’amour [Hearts, Books of Love poems translated by Susanna Lang] Cœur : &nbs…
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September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thanks to Farol: Journal of Literature and Other Arts for publishing my translations of Hélène Dorion's poems, from her collection Hearts, Like Books of Love. So happy to bring her luminous voice into our country (and beyond), in a dark time! faroljournal.com/2025/08/22/h...
Chicago is a labor town! Spirited rally and protest--Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a strong speech. The unions turned out in force; Cappy & I joined our @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social friends. This city is not accustomed to being treated like a rug to walk over, and we don't intend to get used to it.
September 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Chicago is a labor town! Spirited rally and protest--Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a strong speech. The unions turned out in force; Cappy & I joined our @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social friends. This city is not accustomed to being treated like a rug to walk over, and we don't intend to get used to it.
I'm so proud of the work we do together in Third Coast Translators Collective! Thanks to @izidoraangel.bsky.social for putting together this blog post in World Literature Today: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...
Not Gone, Just Busy Translating Women, by The Third Coast Translators Collective
A survey of recent and forthcoming releases from the Third Coast Translators Collective.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm so proud of the work we do together in Third Coast Translators Collective! Thanks to @izidoraangel.bsky.social for putting together this blog post in World Literature Today: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...
At a moment when Americans are turning away from the rest of the world, translators still look outward. Join us in celebrating Women in Translation Month at Women and Children First Bookstore (Chicago), this Wednesday, August 13, at 7 pm: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...
Annual Women in Translation Event
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August 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
At a moment when Americans are turning away from the rest of the world, translators still look outward. Join us in celebrating Women in Translation Month at Women and Children First Bookstore (Chicago), this Wednesday, August 13, at 7 pm: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...
If you'll be in Chicago, come celebrate Women in Translation Month with Third Coast Translators Collective: we're reading and talking about our translations of women writers at Women & Children First Bookstore, 7 pm next Wednesday, 8/13. Details here: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...
Annual Women in Translation Event
womenandchildrenfirst.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you'll be in Chicago, come celebrate Women in Translation Month with Third Coast Translators Collective: we're reading and talking about our translations of women writers at Women & Children First Bookstore, 7 pm next Wednesday, 8/13. Details here: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...
You'll want to read Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel--these poems are truly for this moment we're living. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/laur...
REVIEWS — RHINO — Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel - Reviewed by Susanna Lang
Book of Potions is Lauren K. Watel’s debut collection, published at the age of 57, as she informs us in her unconventional thank-you note at the end of the book. There she describes her writing life a...
rhinopoetry.org
July 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
You'll want to read Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel--these poems are truly for this moment we're living. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/laur...
Chicago, join me at the Women in Translation reading organized by Third Coast Translators Collective. Wed., 8/13, 7 pm, at Women & Children First Bookstore. Susan Harris, (Words Without Borders), will moderate. I'd love to see you there!
July 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Chicago, join me at the Women in Translation reading organized by Third Coast Translators Collective. Wed., 8/13, 7 pm, at Women & Children First Bookstore. Susan Harris, (Words Without Borders), will moderate. I'd love to see you there!
Thanks to Thimble Literary Magazine for publishing this poem! It's bittersweet for me to reread it, as these mothers have all boarded that plane and flown where I cannot (yet) follow.
July 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Thanks to Thimble Literary Magazine for publishing this poem! It's bittersweet for me to reread it, as these mothers have all boarded that plane and flown where I cannot (yet) follow.