The Café & Bar Presents Poetry/in Translation

Featuring

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  Conor Bracken

  Conor Bracken

  Conor Bracken is a poet and translator. He is the author of The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021), as well as the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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  Tess Lewis

  https://www.tesslewis.org/

  Tess Lewis

  https://www.tesslewis.org/

  Tess Lewis is a translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Peter Handke, Philippe Jaccottet, Walter Benjamin, and Montaigne. Her translation of Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion won the ACFNY Translation Prize and the 2017 PEN Translation Award. She is a Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow.

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  David Tomas Martinez

  David Tomas Martinez

  David Tomas Martinez is the author of two collections of poetry, Hustle and Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, both from Sarabande Books. Martinez is a Pushcart winner, CantoMundo fellow, a Breadloaf Stanley P. Young Fellow, Verlaine Poetry Award winner, NEA poetry fellow. Martinez lives in Brooklyn.

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  Yerra Sugarman

  Yerra Sugarman

  Yerra Sugarman is the author of three volumes of poetry: Aunt Bird (Four Way Books, 2022), which won the American Book Fest’s 2022 Annual Best Book Award for General Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards in Poetry; The Bag of Broken Glass (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008), poems from which received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; and Forms of Gone (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002), winner of PEN American Center’s Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.

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  Lynette Yetter

  Lynette Yetter

  Lynette Yetter is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation finalist, and a panpipe-playing Buddhist lesbian artist who shares her time between La Paz, Bolivia and Portland, Oregon. Her Reed College master’s thesis led to her bilingual Spanish/English book Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose (Fuente Fountain Books, 2022). Learn more about Lynette Yetter’s music, movies, books, and art to touch your soul and make you think at www.LynetteYetter.com.