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Arthur Sze, who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026 in September, will open his tenure in December with a workshop and reading focused on poetry translation at Queens College of the City University of New York, in the borough where he grew up. His inaugural reading at the Library of Congress will take place on December 11 (rescheduled from October), followed by two poetry translation workshops in early January in his hometown of Santa Fe, N.Mex.
During his laureateship, Sze plans to engage with students and the public in a series of readings and workshops focused on translating poetry originally written in other languages, the Library noted.
"Translation practice is a vehicle to develop our own poetry; and to write poetry, with its sonnets and sestinas, its haikus and ghazals all carried over into English from other languages, is to awaken to the possibilities--and expand the resources--of our shared language," Sze said. "Translation builds bridges and makes connections. The more we give, the more everyone has. Great poetry ignites and reignites our shared humanity, and the transient worlds of poetry in translation play a vital role in bringing us together."