this is coming up on thursday at the University of New Mexico. what a privilege to read and reminisce with two crucial voices of Nuestra América, two pillars of the kind of intellectual and artist I aspire to be, a friendship that has spanned
Pierre was a force of nature. And one of the greatest translators of poetry of our lifetime. And a great thinker on poetry, too. And so generous. And he worked. Perhaps what I learned most from him was this: as an artist you must work, and hard, ever
very excited for @actionbooks blog's poetry in action to be back! check out these poems by Karen Villeda, translated by NAFTA. String Theory is out March 4 w/ @cardboardhousepress https://actionbooks.org/2025/02/poetry-in-action-42-from-string-theo
poems by Antonio Gamoneda now up @poetryfoundation from forthcoming “Burn the Losses” w/ @actionbooks. these poems knock me out. what an honor to translate them. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1625040/from-burn-
excited to be back in Mexico City after 9(!) years. honored to talk about translating nature at the Colegio de San Ildefonso (where Mexican muralism began) at a symposium on poetry and nature sponsored by UNAM’s La cátedra extraordinari
Our UK tour starts Wednesday October 30 in Liverpool w/ James Byrne & Sarah Crewe! @edgehilluniversity We’ll be reading from departure/despegue just out with @brokensleepbooks . Stay tuned for info about our readings in Bristol and Cardiff!
hard to describe how amazing our trip to Northwest Spain was. old and new friends. outstanding cuisine. and so much fantastic poetry. we will definitely be back very soon. 1. Sidrería in Oviedo 2. A Coruña 3. A Cunquiña 4. A Cor
really delighted that our translation of THE ROOF OF THE WHALE POEMS by the great Venezuelan poet Juan Calzadilla has been long listed for @littranslate National Translation Award. @oliviamlott @uwiscpress
puentes poéticos de Matanzas, the first international poetry festival in Matanzas, was truly an amazing experience. dedicated to the Palestinian people, and featuring one of their greatest contemporary voices, Najwan Darwish. outstanding poetr
so grateful to @sjpazen for talking to us about midnight minutes @actionbooks & thanks to @asymptotejrnl for featuring!
in clouds no one is a foreigner tongue latitude blood longitude matter thinks of and contradicts itself departure / despegue, Victor Rodriguez Nunez’s prize-winning subversive homage to exile, is available for pre-order in a blingual edition
@victorrodrigueznunez is retiring from @kenyoncollege after 23 years! We're celebrating by launching actas de medianoche / midnight minutes ( @actionbooks) on May 2 at 7 pm (EDT) at Oden Auditorium on Kenyon's campus. If you can't make it in person,
new microreviews of poetry in translation up @actionbooks blog! https://actionbooks.org/2024/04/april-2024-action-books-micro-reviews-of-poetry-in-translation/ books: @uglyducklingprs @stevehalle77 @worldpoetrybooks @eulalia.books @copper_canyon_pr
this is happening tomorrow at 5 in cheever room @kenyoncollege #joyellemcsweeney reading from Death Styles (@nightboat_books) 🔥🔥🔥 #ohioworldtour

POEMS from Antonio Gamoneda’s Burn the Losses @ Poetry Magazine

POEMS from Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s the muskrat notebook @ Tupelo Quarterly

ESSAY on translation and collaboration @ Modern Language Notes

ARTICLE (in Spanish) in Honduran daily El Heraldo

INTERVIEW w/ Sarah Swinwood @ EXCHANGES

INTERVIEW @ ASYMPTOTE: Against Containment, Attracting Meaning: Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and Katherine M. Hedeen discuss midnight minutes

INTERVIEW @ASYMPTOTE: Where the Poems Live, On Translating Almost Obscene

JUST ANNOUNCED: Winner of the Wisconsin Poetry Series’ inaugural translation prize for Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems

MAY 2023: Princeton University, After Translation Event

MARCH 2023: AWP in Seattle (readings & Action Books Table)

Knife Fork Books includes Almost Obscene on its “Best of” list 2022

Action Books “Our Favorite Books of Poetry in Translation 2022” includes Almost Obscene, Book of the Cold, and midnight minutes

REVIEW: Almost Obscene at Poetry Magazine

REVIEW: Book of the Cold at Heavy Feather Review

NOW AVAILABLE: Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s midnight minutes chapbook w/ CARRION BLOOM

OUT SOON: Poetry’s Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations w/ Eulalia Press (USA) & Shearsman Books (UK)

NOW AVAILABLE: Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s rebel matter w / Shearsman Books (UK)

LAUNCH: Raúl Gómez Jattin’s Almost Obscene (CSU) at Cleveland State on September 30

FORTHCOMING TITLES: Antonio Gamoneda’s Burning the Losses, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s midnight minutes w/ Action Books