Recent Readings and Talks
Panelist, "Translation Rights and Permissions." American Literary Translation Association, ALTA45, 23 June 2022.
Poetry and Translation Reading for Us &Them. Molasses Books, Brooklyn, 14 May 2022.
La República de las Letras en Oklahoma: Celebrating Five Years of Latin American Literature Today. 3 Dec. 2021. Event Details
Poetry Reading for Lana Turner 13 June 2021. Event Details
Bilingual Poetry Reading with Reina María Rodríguez, Comparative Literature Speaker Series, Emory University, 2 April 2021.
Seminar on Poetics & Translation with Reina María Rodríguez and Kristin Dykstra. Comparative Literature Speaker Series, Emory University, 2 April 2021.
BPL Presents: “Poet Reina María Rodríguez and Kristin Dykstra in Conversation with Urayoán Noel.” Brooklyn Public Library, 16 Nov. 2020. Recording at BPLPresents Videos.
Two panel presentations at the American Literary Translators Association conference, Rochester, NY. Nov. 7-10, 2019.
“An Evening with Kristin Dykstra and Reina María Rodríguez.” Brazos Books, Houston. 26 Oct. 2019.
“Star-Spangled: Translation in the Era of ‘Sonic Attacks.’” Craft talk sponsored by the University of Houston Department of English, UH Creative Writing, and the literary nonprofit InPrint. 24 October 2019.
Book launch featuring two bilingual editions, Materia Prima and The Winter Garden Photograph. McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY. 28 Sept. 2019.
“Latin American Poetry Book Launch: Materia Prima and The Winter Garden Photograph.” Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, MA. 24 May 2019.
“Gravity and Weightlessness: The Legacy of Juan Carlos Flores.” Latin American Studies Association Congress. Boston, 24 May 2019.
“Five in Portland,” at 1123 Gallery in Portland, Oregon. 30 Mar. 2019.
“Shitholes of the World, Unite: A Poetry Reading in Translation.” Holocene, Portland, Oregon. 29 Mar. 2019.
Panelist, "Property of the Imagination: Caribbean Literature in Translation,” organized for the Center for the Art of Translation and sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association. At the Association of Writers and Writing Programs national conference, March 2019, in Portland.
“Lunar Chandelier + Station Hill Just Offsite AWP.” Portland, Oregon. 30 Mar. 2019.
Roundtable: “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, 3-6 Jan 2019.
"Dialogues with the Southern Cone: Women Poets, Women Translators." Moderator/Panelist. ALTA Conference, 31 October to 3 November 2018, Indiana University.
Poetry reading with Mandorla group, for “Spaces for Exchange: Symposium on Mandorla.” Organized by Poetry & Poetics Colloquium, the Modernist Studies Colloquium, and the Department of English at Northwestern University. 12 Oct. 2018.
Keynote conversation, “Spaces for Exchange: Symposium on Mandorla.” For Poetry & Poetics Colloquium, Modernist Studies Colloquium, and Dept. of English at Northwestern University. 12 Oct. 2018.
“Translating Cuban Letters.” Invited talk with Anna Kushner, 12 September 2018. University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Bilingual presentation with Manuel Becerra at launch for The Recluse 14. The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, New York. 6 June 2018.
“An Evening of Latin American Poetry in Translation” (co-host with Steve Halle and Katherine Hedeen, offsite event for AWP). March 10, 2018.
Two panels at the Association for Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Tampa. March 7-10, 2018.
The National Translation Award Shortlist/Longlist Reading. American Literary Translator’s Association annual conference, Minneapolis. 6 October 2017.
Reading, 28 April 2017. Kenyon College.