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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 12d

Photos from a walk in Uzès, France, respite from the news. My admiration & gratitude to those with courage & vision to lead with love when it is easy to feel only anger & fear--my alderwoman, @ward33chicago.bsky.social, my Congressista, @ramirez.house.gov, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, others.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 16d

It looks like they changed their minds, unfortunately. But at least we shook them some!

slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 20d

Illinois and the Midwest: let's go!

slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 20d

Update: the provision was withdrawn when people raised a fuss. But I would be unsurprised to see it slipped back in at the very last moment.

slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 22d

I am really worried about this provision slipped into the State Dept reauthorization bill, the kind of thing that no one usually notices. I have to renew my passport this fall....I've already called my wonderful Congresswoman, Delia Ramirez, and posted about the move. But I have a tiny audience....

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 22d

PLEASE contact your Congressional representative and ask them to speak out and to vote against Section 226 of H.R. 5300! This provision would allow the Secretary of State to revoke passports from U.S. citizens based on alleged “support” for terrorism — without due process or a criminal conviction.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · 23d

I am grateful to Action, Spectacle for publishing one of my zuihitsu. You can find it here: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Susanna Lang - poetry — Action, Spectacle

www.action-spectacle.com

slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Sep 7

The AP got much better photos than I did! Good to see accurate reporting on a demonstration. Most media reported "hundreds" at the Chicago Labor Day march, when it was clear from their aerial photos that we had thousands.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 7

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans

CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Sep 7

Engaging panel yesterday on "writing refuge," moderated by Third Coast Translators Collective member @izidoraangel.bsky.social at Printers Row Lit Fest. It was a mini-reunion of TCTC translators Collective--I was sitting with Shara Kronmal and Jason Grunebaum.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chicago says NO to ICE and the National Guard! No apocalypse in this city.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Sep 3

I hope Illinois will do something similar!

slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to Farol: Journal of Literature and Other Arts for publishing my translations of Hélène Dorion's poems, from her collection Hearts, Like Books of Love. So happy to bring her luminous voice into our country (and beyond), in a dark time! faroljournal.com/2025/08/22/h...

Hélène Dorion

Cœurs, comme livres d’amour [Hearts, Books of Love poems translated by Susanna Lang] Cœur : &nbs…

faroljournal.com

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Sep 1

Chicago is a labor town! Spirited rally and protest--Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a strong speech. The unions turned out in force; Cappy & I joined our @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social friends. This city is not accustomed to being treated like a rug to walk over, and we don't intend to get used to it.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm so proud of the work we do together in Third Coast Translators Collective! Thanks to @izidoraangel.bsky.social for putting together this blog post in World Literature Today: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

Not Gone, Just Busy Translating Women, by The Third Coast Translators Collective

A survey of recent and forthcoming releases from the Third Coast Translators Collective.

worldliteraturetoday.org

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Aug 11

At a moment when Americans are turning away from the rest of the world, translators still look outward. Join us in celebrating Women in Translation Month at Women and Children First Bookstore (Chicago), this Wednesday, August 13, at 7 pm: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...

Annual Women in Translation Event

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you'll be in Chicago, come celebrate Women in Translation Month with Third Coast Translators Collective: we're reading and talking about our translations of women writers at Women & Children First Bookstore, 7 pm next Wednesday, 8/13. Details here: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-0...

Annual Women in Translation Event

womenandchildrenfirst.com

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 29

You'll want to read Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel--these poems are truly for this moment we're living. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/laur...

REVIEWS — RHINO — Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel - Reviewed by Susanna Lang

Book of Potions is Lauren K. Watel’s debut collection, published at the age of 57, as she informs us in her unconventional thank-you note at the end of the book. There she describes her writing life a...

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 24

Chicago, join me at the Women in Translation reading organized by Third Coast Translators Collective. Wed., 8/13, 7 pm, at Women & Children First Bookstore. Susan Harris, (Words Without Borders), will moderate. I'd love to see you there!

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 22

That's an extraordinary story. I'm a retired public school teacher, and I've wondered what I would do in a similar situation. I hope I would have this kind of courage, but until I find myself there, I won't know if I do.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thanks to Thimble Literary Magazine for publishing this poem! It's bittersweet for me to reread it, as these mothers have all boarded that plane and flown where I cannot (yet) follow.

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 18

Good Trouble in Portsmouth, NH

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks to Painted Pebble Lit Mag (formerly Little Free Lit Mag) for publishing one of my zuihitsu in their summer issue: paintedpebblelit.com/s-lang-presc...

S. Lang, Prescribed Burn - Painted Pebble Lit Mag

Susanna Lang Prescribed Burn A fire goes before us. —Yves Bonnefoy Workers in fluorescent suits, helmeted, faceless, carry wands with fire at their tips. Flames run up the spiral path to the summit, l...

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm escaping into poetry so I don't have to read news of the Big Ugly Bill, soon to be law. Neither of these poems, published by Thimble Literary Magazine (and I thank them for it!), has anything to do with the current miserable state of affairs in our country. www.thimblelitmag.com/author/slang/

Susanna Lang

www.thimblelitmag.com

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jun 30

So pleased to be able to share this poetry collection: For now I am sitting here growing transparent by Yau Ching, translated by Chenxin Jiang. Read my review here: rhinopoetry.org/reviews/yau-...

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am proud to have two poems included in this forthcoming anthology--and congratulations to the contest winners!

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