About this Event
Join us for a World Poetry Night, celebrating some of the finest poets and translators in the world!
Ricardo Domeneck, Chris Daniels, Andrew Choate, and Olga Mikolaivna share the stage to read some of their works in English and other languages, and to discuss the state of writing and translating global poetry.
About the participants:
Ricardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German, Dutch and Spanish. Working with sound and performance, he has presented work in several museums and galleries. First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry, 2026) is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation.
Chris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of poetry by Fernando Pessoa, Josely Vianna Baptista, Adelaide Ivánova, Lubi Prates, and Orides Fontela. His selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s poems, First Epistle to the Amphibians, will be released by World Poetry Books in April 2026.
Andrew Choate is the author of Language Makes Plastic of the Body (Palm Press), Stingray Clapping (Insert Blanc), Too Many Times I See Every Thing Just the Way It Is (Poetics Research Bureau), Learning (Civil Coping Mechanisms), Must Have Jazz (The Residual Press) and A Rational Arrangement of All the Senses (Blaze VOX). A passionate admirer of bollards—the concrete and steel posts that protect buildings, equipment, and people from vehicles—Choate performs and photographs them as Saint Bollard (IG: @saintbollard), earning praise from Slate as “the world’s foremost bollard photographer.” His work in this vein has received awards including Best Newcomer, Best Visual/Performance Art, and the Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award at the Dunedin and Auckland Fringe Festivals. He curates The Unwrinkled Ear concert series in Los Angeles.
olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. She has multiple publications out with Tilted House and forthcoming chapbook, "our monuments to california," she calls them with Ursus Americanus Press. Her translation of Stanislav Belsky's first full length collection in English, There Won't be a Culmination, is out with Dialogos / Lavender Ink. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, United States
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