Celebrate National Translation Month at HVWC! Please join us on Zoom at 4:00 p.m., September 27, for an afternoon of poetry in translation with Jessica Cuello, Aiden Farrell, and Chloe Martinez.
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Jessica Cuello’s newest book, Feral, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in 2027. Cuello is also the author of Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Prize, and three other collections. Her work has been supported by a 2025 Saltonstall Fellowship, a 2023 NYSCA Artist Grant, and she was the awarded the 2025 Adele and Robert Schiff Nonfiction Prize from The Cincinnati Review. Cuello is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and editor of International Editions at The Word Works. She teaches public school in Central NY.
Aiden Farrell is a poet and translator. His translations include Christophe Tarkos' The Sign = : Manifesto (World Poetry, forthcoming), and Marie de Quatrebarbes' Vanitas (World Poetry, forthcoming) and The Vitals (World Poetry, 2025). A book of poems, hearsay, is forthcoming with Prroblem Press. Aiden has received support from the Cité Internationale des Arts, the Centre National du Livre, and the Albertine Translation Fund.
Chloe Martinez is the translator of Blue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai (New Directions, October 2026); coeditor of Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD (University of Chicago, 2026); and author of the poetry collection Ten Thousand Selves and the chapbook Corner Shrine. A 2026 NEA Translation Fellow, she is assistant editor at Beloit Poetry Journal and works at Claremont McKenna College.