From the University of Chicago Press:
Dissonance
2026
Upcoming
3/7/2026: Reading for The University of Chicago Press, Baltimore, MD
5:30-7:30 at Red Emma’s
2025
12/1/25: Lecture at Princeton University, for the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. 12-1:20PM.
Friday, 11/ 7/ 2025, 8:00pm
ALTA Off-site Poetry Translation Party
La Suprema Works, 319 W Simpson St, Tucson, AZ
Reception to follow
Readers: Diana Arterian, Odile Cisneros, Kristin Dykstra, Lupita Eyde-Tucker, Gabriel Gudding, M.L. Martin, Olga Mikolaivna, Daniel Owen, Jeannine Pitas, Niloufar Talebi, and Deborah Woodard
10/22/25, 7pm
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Cambridge, MA
Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Kristin Dykstra, and Lisa Olstein with an introduction by Anna V. Q. Ross
Sign up in advance to attend in person at this historic store, or register to attend online
Thursday 9/25/2025, 7pm
Amherst Books
Amherst, MA
Reading with Kirun Kapur & Mary Gilliland.
Thursday 8/7/2025
7pm Central / 8pm Eastern. with Erín Moure, Laura Chalar, Kristin Dykstra, Denise Kripper, Inna Kransoper, Kathleen March, Jeannine Marie Pitas,
Mark Pleiss, Lauren Shapiro, & Kelsi Vanada
4/15/25, 7pm
at New York University
4/10/25 7pm reading at Pierson Library, Shelburne VT, with Flying Pig Books. Click here for the library’s event page.
Dissonance was partly made with the assistance of little VT town libraries. It’s great to get to present it at one of our excellent town libraries.
3/28/25 Boomtown Brewery, Los Angeles: Reading for Veliz Books with Tina Cane, Sebha Sarhar, Anu Kandikuppa, & Seth Michelson.
3/27/25 Los Angeles, at Kippered. 7:45-8:30PM time slot.
AWP Offsite Reading for The U of Chicago Press with Paris Review, Kuhl House Poets, and Fono Graf
2/28/25 Reading & conversation with Brenda Cárdenas and Angelica Dávila. Pilsen Community Books, Chicago, 7pm. Bookstore info here.
2/27/25 University of Chicago, Creative Writing Program: Phoenix Poets New Voices in Poetry. Launch event for Dissonance, with the winner of the U of Chicago “New Voices in Poetry” series contest.
2024
On the road with Soleida Ríos in 2024
10/11/25 Reading with Soleida Ríos, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dept. of English.
9/12/25 Reading with Tina Escaja, The Venetian, Burlington.
Other Past Literary Events
Kristin Dykstra has spoken about literatures and cultures at a wide range of venues in the US and internationally. Some reading venues since 2010 include …
Colleges & universities: Emory University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; University of Connecticut, Storrs; “Spaces for Exchange: Symposium on Mandorla,” Organized by Poetry & Poetics Colloquium, the Modernist Studies Colloquium, and the Department of English at Northwestern University; Kenyon College; University of Chicago, Poem Present; the Creative Campus and Book Arts Programs at the University of Alabama; University of Texas at Dallas; and elsewhere.
Other venues / series: Us & Them at Molasses Books, Brooklyn; online issue launch for Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion; Poetry and BYOBiscuits; BPL Presents, for Brooklyn Public Library; McNally Jackson Books, NY; Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, MA; the Azotea in Havana, Cuba; 1123 Gallery in Portland, Oregon; Holocene, Portland, Oregon; The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, New York; The National Translation Award Shortlist/Longlist Reading; Hatchet Job Reading Series, Brooklyn; New City Galerie, Burlington, VT; Latino Cultural Center, Dallas; Americas Society, New York.