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Protest against ICE in downtown Chicago--snowing, cold, but lots of people and signs and chants and drums.

This week, the Senate votes to fund government departments including the Department of Homeland Security. It is immoral & unconstitutional to support the actions of agencies that break into homes & shoot to kill US citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. Ask your Senators to vote "NO!"

REVIEWS — RHINO — At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2001 by Lucille Clifton. Edited by Kazim Ali Reviewed by Susanna I felt like I was eavesdropping as I read At the Gate, a posthumous edition of the poems Lucille Clifton left in her computer hard drives and laptop, as well as other electronic materials and word pro...

I have missed Lucille Clifton's voice in the years since her death. Such an honor to be able to review this new edition of her previously uncollected poems! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/luci...

Vigil for Renee Nicole Good (and all the others) in Chicago yesterday, signs along my walking route today, and a red-tailed hawk. Not great photos--all I have is an iPhone and very little skill.

ICE Out For Good in Chicago · Mobilize Join Indivisible Lakeview + Lincoln Park + Old Town on Sunday January 11th at 4 PM for a Vigil to show we want ICE OUT FOR GOOD. Bring a candle or a light to shine. Bring a sign! Wednesday, January 7...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out For Good in Chicago” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2025, by Michelle Johnson The field of translated literature was again robust in 2025.

Wow! If Souad Labbize hadn't tagged me, I wouldn't have known that my translation of her poetry, Unfasten the silk of your silence, was on the @worldlittoday.bsky.social list of 75 notable translations for 2025. Such an honor! worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

Catherine Anderson is a wonderful poet, and this is her launch reading for her new collection, Afloat. I will definitely be zooming in. Join me!

REVIEWS — RHINO — The Worry Dolls by Shannon K. Winston - Reviewed by Susanna Lang The title poem in Shannon K. Winston’s new collection, The Worry Dolls, remembers her own premature birth, or remembers the family stories of her birth as if they were her own memories. She was “half-...

I am always happy to have a book review up at
@rhinopoetry.bsky.social. This collection fits our anxious times, but also encourages us to continue despite our anxieties. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/shan...

Ghost Birds | Rust & Moth —Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus arcticus, Op. 61 (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra) Humans calling like birds. Humans in black gowns or tails with white shirts who channel their breath through flutes a...

Thanks to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this poem! I found the concerto so evocative that I needed to write in response to it. It's available online, and I encourage you to listen to it. rustandmoth.com/work/ghost-b...

I'm so pleased that Christine Guinard's poems are receiving this honor! Many thanks to The Ilanot Review for the Pushcart nomination.

I'm not even a competent photographer--I asked a total stranger at Montrose Point how to take this mediocre picture of the northern lights. But I loved being there with so many fellow Chicagoans, out to see something beautiful together after months of living under siege from our own government.

Bluesky only allows four photos--here are the last two.

Great reading last night to end the @littranslate.bsky.social conference. Thanks to Sarabande & @roberteshoe.bsky.social for organizing! Such a pleasure to read with fellow Third Coast Translators Collective translators Alta L. Price, Sarah A Rae, Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, and Andrea Avey.

Couldn't we use a breath of fresh air from abroad? If you're in Tucson on Thurs., 11/6, come to a reading of translated literature! I'll be reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer and translator whose poems focus on themes of exile and love. Friends & colleagues reading as well!

The treat I got on Halloween--the new issue of @agnimagazine.bsky.social with my translations of Christine Guinard's poems. She's a French poet whose family fled to France during La Retirada, when half a million Spaniards escaped Franco's army. Her family's stories echo through her voice.

Thank you!

REVIEWS — RHINO — My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu - Reviewed by Susanna Lang by Alina Stefanescu Reviewed by Susanna Lang these angels are not beneficent beings

I have a new review at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social--hope you enjoy! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/alin...

Grateful to find two of my poems in the new issue of I-70 Review, along with poems from so many writers I've known and admired over the years. And, since it's Halloween, the jack-o'-lantern I carved yesterday!

Thanks to @swwim.bsky.social for publishing this poem, written when we first moved into our apartment in Uzès! Today we have already left that home, will return to our Chicago home in a couple of days. In a between place, happy to be reminded of that beginning.

Happy to read Christine Guinard's poems with friends & colleagues in Tucson! Thanks to Third Coast Translators Collective & @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for organizing this event. Christine's poems, that grew out of her family's history of fleeing Franco's army in 1939, are painfully relevant today.

I am happy to have another zuihitsu up at Painted Pebble Lit Mag: paintedpebblelit.com/s-lang-unpre...

In Tucson on 11/6? Come to a reading of translated literature! I'm reading poems by Souad Labbize, an Algerian-French writer & translator whose poems focus on exile & love. Excited to read with so many talented translators, so many friends! (Apologies for the earlier, incorrect announcement....)

I am in France but will be with you in spirit, Chicago!

Photos from a walk in Uzès, France, respite from the news. My admiration & gratitude to those with courage & vision to lead with love when it is easy to feel only anger & fear--my alderwoman, @ward33chicago.bsky.social, my Congressista, @ramirez.house.gov, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, others.

It looks like they changed their minds, unfortunately. But at least we shook them some!

Illinois and the Midwest: let's go!

Update: the provision was withdrawn when people raised a fuss. But I would be unsurprised to see it slipped back in at the very last moment.

I am really worried about this provision slipped into the State Dept reauthorization bill, the kind of thing that no one usually notices. I have to renew my passport this fall....I've already called my wonderful Congresswoman, Delia Ramirez, and posted about the move. But I have a tiny audience....

PLEASE contact your Congressional representative and ask them to speak out and to vote against Section 226 of H.R. 5300! This provision would allow the Secretary of State to revoke passports from U.S. citizens based on alleged “support” for terrorism — without due process or a criminal conviction.

Susanna Lang - poetry — Action, Spectacle

I am grateful to Action, Spectacle for publishing one of my zuihitsu. You can find it here: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...