Past Events

Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom.

In conversation with Susan Steinberg, author Elisa Levi launches her novel That’s All I Know, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.

See Two Lines Press authors Hon Lai Chu and Jacqueline Leung and visit the Two Lines Press booth at the Bay Area Book Festival!

Hon Lai Chu and Jacqueline Leung visit Seattle, San Francisco, Berkeley, Washington DC, and New York City to celebrate the English translation of Mending Bodies.

Co-editor of Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations series Wendy Call will be joined in conversation by Britta Stromeyer for a lively discussion about reading and promoting translated literature.

Join us for the next meeting of the Contemporary Translated Works Book Group as we read and discuss Sand-Catcher by Omar Khalifah, translated by Barbara Romaine.

The Goethe-Institut San Francisco presents a conversation with translator Jon Cho-Polizzi on migration, identity, and multilingualism in Berlin’s vibrant post-migrant literary scene, with Tamara Loewenstein.

Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom this school year.

Join us for the next meeting of the Contemporary Translated Works Book Group as we read and discuss Covert Joy: Selected Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson.

Esther Allen presents her translation of The Suicides, the third book of Antonio Di Benedetto’s unofficial trilogy, in conversation with Forrest Gander.

Dylan Bassett, May-lee Chai, and Jennifer Tseng discuss the new dimensions that translated literature adds to conversations about writing process, craft, language and revision in the classroom, moderated by Bonnie Chau.

Katrina Dodson discusses her translations of Clarice Lispector to celebrate the release of Covert Joy: Selected Stories. She will be joined in conversation by Rita Bullwinkel.

Join us for the next meeting of the Contemporary Translated Works Book Group as we read and discuss Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.

Powell’s City of Books welcomes Elvira Navarro to discuss her novel The Voices of Adriana with Kimberly King Parsons

Green Apple Books on the Park welcomes Elvira Navarro to discuss her novel The Voices of Adriana with Sarah Rose Etter.

Astrid Roemer, Anne Adams, and Bronwyn Lamay reflect on the global legacy of Toni Morrison in honor of Toni Morrison Day.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads his translations of Najwan Darwish from the collection No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 alongside poet Zeina Hashem Beck.

Join us for a special evening of Italian poetry with Mariangela Gualtieri, Natasha Trethaway, and Olivia Sears.

Join us for a conversation with Jennifer Feeley on her translation of Tongueless, followed by a group discussion with the Contemporary Translated Works Book Group to delve deeper into the book.