in the craziest time of year I am doing a virtual reading this tuesday dec 2 at 7pm! with type books in toronto! for THE HAND OF THE HAND @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social + THE ENDLESS WEEK @dorothyproject.bsky.social by Laura Vazquez! come by!!

register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

so honored to be shortlisted with lénaïg cariou/limited connection collective for our translation of laura vazquez' the hand of the hand, out from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social!!

thank you @officialqwf.bsky.social and congrats to all the finalists!

just learned from a poetry prof I knew in undergrad that she'll be teaching my co-translation of THE HAND OF THE HAND this year to her advanced poetry class 😭

advanced poetry is a workshop by application, I never got in when I was a student but now my work is being taught :')

hello Montreal people, we're launching THE HAND OF THE HAND in MTL this Thursday!!

I'll be talking about friendship & collaborative translation and reading some poetry about bugs, plants, and bodies 🐜 🍃 🍄

📆 6pm-8pm May 29th
📍Librairie L'Euguélionne, 1426 Rue Beaudry

join us!!!!

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I really do get why dutch people collectively lost their minds over tulips in the 1600s

in NYC, again, May 3rd at 8pm @ Molasses Books in Brooklyn, a reading w/ Aiden Farrell (translator of THE VITALS by Marie de Quatrebarbes, @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social), co-presented with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social !!

on May 2nd I'll be in NYC for @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social's spring studio party, reading from THE HAND OF THE HAND by Laura Vazquez (translated w/ Lénaïg Cariou)—check out this LINEUP!!!

this event is ticketed, make sure to grab your spot: shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/udp...

on Friday, April 25, at 7pm, we'll be in LILLE, at Librairie L'Affranchie—

event w/ Lénaïg Cariou and me about LE RÊVE D'UN LANGAGE COMMUN, w/ Charlotte Blanchard (who wrote her PhD thesis in 2019 on the notable absence of Rich translations in French!)

first stop: PARIS, April 23, 7:30pm, Librairie La Friche—

with the incomparable Lénaïg Cariou, I'll be reading from our co-translation of THE DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE by Adrienne Rich!

in conversation w/ Alex Lachkar & Jeanne Bacharach!

somehow I've ended up on a little translation tour?? here's a thread of where you can catch me doing readings of/in translation !!

we're promoting 2 books: LE RÊVE D'UN LANGAGE COMMUN by Adrienne Rich (L'Arche Éditeur) and THE HAND OF THE HAND by Laura Vazquez (@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social)

really, really grateful to have gotten the chance to be so close to a true poetic master. cheers to you, A—

IT'S PUB DAY for our translation of Adrienne Rich's THE DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE into French!!

this is one of the first full French collections of A. Rich's poetry—proud to bring her into a language she spoke & loved, w/ the legendary feminist publishing house l'Arche! also—we made wikipedia !!!