Past Events

City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation present Gabriela Alemán, author of the new novel Smoke, published by City Lights, in conversation with her translator Dick Cluster. 

Dismantle and reassemble a poem in a new language in this casual translation workshop hosted by local translator JiaJing Liu during Phase 2 of Lit Crawl 2025.

How does blending translation, sound, and performance push the boundaries of understanding? Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno, guide a listening party through three immersive audio adaptations.

Diana Arterian, Samantha Cosentino, Armen Davoudian, Sabrina 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.