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Oct 11, 2025|7:00pm
Litquake – Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets

Diana ArterianSamantha CosentinoArmen DavoudianSabrina Nouri, and Marina Omar read from their translations in Hair on Fire, an anthology that serves as a blazing tribute to a group of exceptional poetesses and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced.

Telegraph Hill Books | 1501 Grant Avenue | San Francisco, CA

Sep 29, 2025|7:00pm
Jay Boss Rubin on Rosa Mistika with Annmarie Drury

Jay Boss Rubin, translator of Rosa Mistika, celebrates the legacy of Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi with Annmarie Drury.

City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Ave | San Francisco, CA

Lecture
Sep 28, 2025
Two Lines Press @ Litquake Small Press Book Fair 2025

Visit Two Lines Press at the Litquake Small Press Book Fair!

Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

Sep 25, 2025|7:00pm
Mary Jo Bang on Dante’s Paradiso with Tess Taylor

Green Apple Books on the Park welcomes Mary Jo Bang to present her new translation of Dante’s Paradiso in conversation with Tess Taylor.

Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Ave | San Francisco, CA

Sep 21, 2025
Two Lines Press @ Brooklyn Book Festival 2025

Visit Two Lines Press at Booth 626 at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2025!

Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY

Festivals
Sep 19–Oct 17, 2025
Works in Progress: 2025 NEA Translation Fellows Conversation Series
Join the Center for the Art of Translation to celebrate the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellows in a series of conversations about their award-winning projects, which span 17 different languages across 21 countries. Across five weekly virtual conversations, each Fellow will present and read from their book, and discuss the special pleasures and complexities of bringing it into English.

Online Event

Virtual Event
Sep 18, 2025|12:00–7:00 pm
Day of Translation 2025

Featuring Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura, Day of Translation returns September 18, 2025 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY.

The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Sep 18, 2025|12:00–7:00 pm
Day of Translation 2025

Featuring Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura, Day of Translation returns September 18, 2025 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY

The Center for Fiction | 15 Lafayette Avenue | Brooklyn, NY

Conferences
Aug 26–28, 2025
Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop Aug. 2025

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

Online workshop

Poetry Inside Out
Jun 5, 2025|7:00pm
That’s All I Know: Elisa Levi with Susan Steinberg

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

Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Ave | San Francisco, CA

Fiction
May 31–Jun 1, 2025
Two Lines Press at Bay Area Book Festival 2025

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

Downtown Berkeley

Festivals
May 28–Jun 4, 2025
Mending Bodies Author Tour: Hon Lai Chu and Jacqueline Leung

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.

Two Lines Press
May 27, 2025|7:00pm
Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025 Launch

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.

Medicine for Nightmares | 3036 24th St | San Francisco, CA

Lecture
May 21, 2025|12:00pm
Contemporary Translated Works: Sand-Catcher Book Group

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.

Online

May 15, 2025|6:30pm
An Evening with Jon Cho-Polizzi: On Migration and Multilingualism in Contemporary German Literature

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.

Goethe-Institut San Francisco | 657 Howard Street | San Francisco, CA

May 13–15, 2025
Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop

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

Online workshop

Poetry Inside Out
Apr 23, 2025
Contemporary Translated Works: Covert Joy Book Group

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.

Online Event

Apr 17, 2025|6:30pm
Esther Allen on The Suicides with Forrest Gander

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

Et al. Gallery | 2831A Mission Street | San Francisco, CA

Mar 29, 2025|12:10pm
AWP 2025 Panel: “But It Wasn’t Written in English”—Translated Literature in the Creative Writing Classroom

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.

Room 501ABC | Level Two | Los Angeles Convention Center

Conferences
Mar 21, 2025|6:30pm
Voice Portraits: Evenings Will Return… The Voice of Italian Poetry
Olivia E. Sears and Julia Nelsen read translations of contemporary Italian poets as well as the great 20th-century masters for the opening of Voice Portraits, a synesthetic art exhibit curated by Giovanna Iorio.
The Italian Cultural Institute @ INNOVIT
710 Sansome Street | San Francisco, CA