See you in Chicago in late October!

I am delighted to be participating in the Lit & Luz festival in Chicago at the end of October with Irma Pineda. We both look forward to talking poetry, translation, and cross-border collaborations. We’ll be discussing a book that we worked on together for more than a decade: Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (Phoneme / Deep Vellum, 2024). Below, a photo of us at an artist residency in 2012, on an island near Seattle, at the beginning of the process for this book.

Wendy Call & Irma Pineda in residence at the Whiteley Center of the University of Washington, December 2012.





Four Events for Three Books Coming Up in the Northeast!

In the second half of April, I have events coming up in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Portland (ME), and online (sponsored by Princeton University) for my recent books. Please see the events page of my website for more info. I would be delighted to see you in person — if you happen to be in New York City or Portland, ME, or online, wherever you might be! The virtual Princeton event, on Tuesday, April 16, will also fully Spanish-English bilingual.

First (virtual) event for How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems!

My co-translation of Mikeas Sánchez’s How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems is forthcoming in early January 2024 from Milkweed Editions. The first event will be hosted by Latin American Literature Today and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at noon Pacific US/Canada time / 2:00 pm Mexico time / 3 pm Eastern US/Canada time. You can register to attend (it’s free) here.

Presentaciones del Libro en México

En octubre 2022, voy a participar en presentaciones del libro para el poemario trilingüe de Irma Pineda, In the Belly of Night and Other Poems, en la Ciudad de México (17 de octubre), Oaxaca (19 de octubre), Querétaro (15 de octubre), y San Luis Potosí (13 de octubre). Favor de ver a la página de mis eventos para los detalles. También habrá un evento virtual, bilingüe español-inglés, el miércoles, 30 de noviembre, gracias a Pitzer College en California.