Readings
Soft Clock poetry reading, 4011 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA, April 19, 2023.
ALTA Offsite Translation Party with Action Books and World Poetry Books, La Suprema Works and Events, Tucson, November 10, 2023.
Reading/Q&A with Lauren Shapiro, White Whale Books & Coffee, March 1, 2024.
“Shitholes of the World, Unite,” Steinfeld Warehouse, Tucson, November 11, 2023.
Pioneer Valley Poetry Festival, Amherst, MA, January 2022.
Wells College, September 24, 2021 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTtyxuIvSk).
Action Books/Bloof Books Reading, AWP Smol Fair, March 6, 2021.
With Katrine Jensen and Ursula Olsen, Action Books Release Reading, March 1, 2021.
With Katie Booth, Duquesne University, November 12, 2020.
Book Release, White Whale Books, Pittsburgh, April 30, 2020.
With María Negroni, Book Release, McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY, April 26, 2019.
With Abby Chabitnoy and Lauren Shapiro, White Whale Books, Pittsburgh, March 13, 2019.
Tree of Life Memorial Poetry Reading, City Books, Pittsburgh, November 10, 2018.
Rialto Theater Gallery, Tampa, FL, March 8, 2018.
Ybor City Performing Arts, Tampa, FL, March 11, 2018.
Versify Reading Series, White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh, November 18, 2016.
With Valerie Mejer Caso, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, November 2, 2016.
National Translation Award Reading, Oakland, CA, October 7, 2016.
With Sawako Nakayasu, Jubilat/Jones Reading Series, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, March 27, 2016.
Book Release, With María Negroni, Argentine Consulate, New York, October 16, 2014.
With Carmen Giménez Smith, Assemble Gallery/Literary Arts Boom, Pittsburgh, March 27, 2013.
Brooklyn Arts Press Reading, LIR Bar, Boston, March 8, 2013.
Point of Contact Gallery at Syracuse University, NY, April 14, 2011.
With Khet Mar, City of Asylum, Pittsburgh. March 3, 2011.
Oxford Anthology of Latin American Poetry Readings at The Poets’ House, New York, November 18, 2009 and The Americas Society, New York, October 6, 2009.
With María Negroni, Book Release, McNally Jackson Books, New York, May 1, 2009.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Translation as Poetic Practice: Five Case Studies,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 20, 2024. (presenter)
“Breaking the Rules on Chapbooks: New Approaches to an Old Form,” The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Kansas City, February 9, 2024. [presenter]
“Poetry’s Geographies: Poet-Translators Re-Mapping the “World,” American Literary Translators Association (ATLA) Conference 45, Tucson, November 11, 2023. (moderator)
“Translating Monsters” on the panel “Translating the Untranslatable,” The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, March 3, 2021. [presenter]
“A Brief En Trance: La Pampa” on the panel “In(ter)vention: Translation and Makings of Poetics, Politics, Place,” American Literary Translator’s Association (ALTA) Conference 43, Online, October 18, 2020. [moderator/presenter]
“A Language of Body and Grief: Translation,” Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA), Boston, MA, May 25, 2019. [presenter]
“Translating a Woman’s Grief” on “Translating Women Poets,” The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Tampa, FL, March 9, 2018. [presenter]
“How Difficult it is to be Just One Person: Translating the Autobiographical Poem,” The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Tampa, FL, March 10, 2018. [moderator/presenter]
“Gender in Mourning” on the panel “Translating Women Poets,” The American Literary Translators’ Association (ALTA) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 11, 2017. [presenter]
“Translating Valerie Mejer Caso via Edmond Jabès via Rosmarie Waldrop” on “Translation and Exile,” The American Literary Translators’ Association (ALTA) Conference, Oakland, CA October 7, 2016. [presenter]
“A Dirty War Lyric Novel: When Reality Asserts Itself as Inaccessible” on the panel “Transits of History: Contemporary Writing from Latin America,” American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 30-31, 2015. [presenter]
“Not My Intention: On Intuition” on the panel “A Question of Style,” American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 30-31, 2015. [presenter]
“The Original Comes Second” on “Latin American Poetry in Translation: Post-Avant-Garde to Post-Modernism,” The Associated Writing Programs (AWP), Washington, D.C., February 4, 2011. [presenter]
“Translating New Poems by María Negroni: A Tango” on the panel “Latin American Poetry,” American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 17, 2008. [presenter]
Public Lectures & Interviews
“Translating Indigenous Writing,” Pittsburgh International Literary Festival, City of Asylum, October 7, 2023.
“Global Perspectives on Literary Translation,” with Daniel Gustafsson and Lauren Shapiro, City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, December 8, 2022.
Interview with Catalan author Irene Solà and translator Mara Faye Lethem, White Whale Bookstore, April 10, 2022.
Keynote, “Monsters in Translation,” Wells College, September 20, 2021.
Featured Co-Presenter, Interview with Olivia Lott, City of Asylum International Book Festival, May 16, 2021.
Featured Co-presenter, “The Books You Are Missing: The Importance of Literary Translation,” Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, March 4, 2018.
“Las raíces machacadas: Traducir la obra de J. C. Bustriazo Ortiz,” La Asociación Pampeana de Escritores, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina, December 2, 2016.
“The Unabettable Bleak: A Discussion of Four Poems by William Bronk,” PoemTalk podcast with Al Filreis, Kelly Writers’ House, The University of Pennsylvania, April 2016. (Archived at: https://jacket2.org/podcasts/unabettable-bleak-poemtalk-99.)
“Translation Slam,” PEN World Voices Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 2012 (Event reviewed in the NY Times: https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/translators-get-a-slam-of-their-own-at-pen-festival.)
Residencies
Residency, Wells College, Aurora, NY, September 20-25, 2021.
Visiting Artist’s Residency, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, NY, April 13-17, 2011.