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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Another book, another cover! This collection of my own poems is due out in March, in time for AWP. Thanks to Cornerstone Press, and special thanks to Pat Daneman for that gorgeous cover photo!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I love the rainbow behind the scaffolding as Trump's name comes off the Kennedy Center. Lots of ways to read that sign from on high....Thanks, New York Times, for the shot!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Le Jardin du Luxembourg. The French remember.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

So excited to see my translations of poems by Hélène Dorion in the June issue of Poetry Magazine! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thanks to @foliolit.bsky.social for publishing this poem, written before Trump II but when it was already painfully difficult for refugees. I was tutoring an Afghan family and helping with clothing for those bussed to Chicago by Governor Abbott of Texas. www.folioliteraryjournal.com/between-here...

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Between Here and Somewhere Else — FOLIO Literary Journal

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Aux amis qui se trouveront à Paris, friends who will be in Paris next week: I'll be signing my translation of Souad Labbize's poems at the Marché de la Poésie @mdlpparis.bsky.social (Place Saint-Sulpice). Come say hello! Stand 102, Éditions des Lisières, 4 pm on June 6.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My issue of Rhino Reviews! rhinopoetry.org/rhino-reviews So grateful to the reviewers, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Suzanne Cleary, David Graham, Lisa Alexander, Carrie J. Johnson, Tim Hunt, Cathryn Essinger, Catherine Anderson, & Ángel García. Special thanks to the regular editor, Angela Narciso Torres!

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RHINO REVIEWS — RHINO

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The federal government should not decide what your kids are allowed to read. Oppose the Federal Book Ban Bill. Sign the petition and defend the freedom to read. Via @everylibrary.bsky.social #read #reading #library #libraries action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661

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PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading

Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

COVER REVEAL! I'm excited to see the cover for my translation of My Forests by Hélène Dorion, & to anticipate its October publication. So grateful to Hélène for her collaboration in this work, & to everyone at @bookhugpress.bsky.social for their generous support! These are poems we need to read.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Thank you, Hungary! And - bad as Orban has been, he did concede the election. No January 6th iin Hungary! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

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Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Defeat in Hungary’s Election

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

As a teacher, I am most worried about removing books from classroom, school & public libraries. How do we encourage reading without books to read, including books that reflect children's lives & those that open a window to others' lives? action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading

Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

On a sad day in our country, some personal good news: thanks to Mayday Magazine for publishing my translations of Christine Guinard's poems: maydaymagazine.com/they-pass-th...

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They pass through, and see through us by Christine Guinard, translated from the Spanish by Susanna Lang : MAYDAY

you ask beneath your feet is this your land?

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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!"

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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...

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World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2025, by Michelle Johnson

The field of translated literature was again robust in 2025.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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....)

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Susanna Lang - poetry — Action, Spectacle

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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...

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Hélène Dorion

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

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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...

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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.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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...

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Annual Women in Translation Event

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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...

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Annual Women in Translation Event

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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.

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