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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Update: the provision was withdrawn when people raised a fuss.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-...

The AP got much better photos than I did! Good to see accurate reporting on a demonstration. Most media reported "hundreds" at the Chicago Labor Day march, when it was clear from their aerial photos that we had thousands.

Engaging panel yesterday on "writing refuge," moderated by Third Coast Translators Collective member @izidoraangel.bsky.social at Printers Row Lit Fest. It was a mini-reunion of TCTC translators Collective--I was sitting with Shara Kronmal and Jason Grunebaum.

Chicago says NO to ICE and the National Guard! No apocalypse in this city.

I hope Illinois will do something similar!

Hélène Dorion Cœurs, comme livres d’amour [Hearts, Books of Love poems translated by Susanna Lang] Cœur :                 &nbs…

Thanks to Farol: Journal of Literature and Other Arts for publishing my translations of Hélène Dorion's poems, from her collection Hearts, Like Books of Love. So happy to bring her luminous voice into our country (and beyond), in a dark time! faroljournal.com/2025/08/22/h...

Chicago is a labor town! Spirited rally and protest--Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a strong speech. The unions turned out in force; Cappy & I joined our @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social friends. This city is not accustomed to being treated like a rug to walk over, and we don't intend to get used to it.

Not Gone, Just Busy Translating Women, by The Third Coast Translators Collective A survey of recent and forthcoming releases from the Third Coast Translators Collective.

I'm so proud of the work we do together in Third Coast Translators Collective! Thanks to @izidoraangel.bsky.social for putting together this blog post in World Literature Today: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

Annual Women in Translation Event

At a moment when Americans are turning away from the rest of the world, translators still look outward. Join us in celebrating Women in Translation Month at Women and Children First Bookstore (Chicago), this Wednesday, August 13, at 7 pm: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...

Annual Women in Translation Event

If you'll be in Chicago, come celebrate Women in Translation Month with Third Coast Translators Collective: we're reading and talking about our translations of women writers at Women & Children First Bookstore, 7 pm next Wednesday, 8/13. Details here: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...

REVIEWS — RHINO — Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel - Reviewed by Susanna Lang Book of Potions is Lauren K. Watel’s debut collection, published at the age of 57, as she informs us in her unconventional thank-you note at the end of the book. There she describes her writing life a...

You'll want to read Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel--these poems are truly for this moment we're living. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/laur...

Chicago, join me at the Women in Translation reading organized by Third Coast Translators Collective. Wed., 8/13, 7 pm, at Women & Children First Bookstore. Susan Harris, (Words Without Borders), will moderate. I'd love to see you there!

That's an extraordinary story. I'm a retired public school teacher, and I've wondered what I would do in a similar situation. I hope I would have this kind of courage, but until I find myself there, I won't know if I do.

Thanks to Thimble Literary Magazine for publishing this poem! It's bittersweet for me to reread it, as these mothers have all boarded that plane and flown where I cannot (yet) follow.

Good Trouble in Portsmouth, NH