Us&Them is a quarterly reading series giving literary translators with parallel careers as writers a place to showcase both sides of their work.

The summer 2021 installment featured readings from the following writer-translators:
LILY MEYER
reading Claudia Ulloa Donoso (Peru)
LARISSA KYZER
reading Icelandic poetry*
JULIA WALTON
reading poetry from Bluestocking magazine (Japan)
NAIMA RASHID
reading Ali Akbar Natiq (Pakistan)

*Two poems from Kári Tulinius’ Glacier Line: “Upon Seeing Snæfellsjökull Glacier from an Idling Bus” and “Vanishings of Snæfellsjökull Glacier,” both of which were published in the July 2021 issue of Asymptote; and three poems by members of Reykjavík’s Impostor Poets’ Collective—”Malice,” by Thóra Hjörleifsdóttir, “Hauntings” by Thórdís Helgadóttir, and “Jam” by Sunna Dís Másdóttir—which are forthcoming in a chapbook co-published by myself and Meg Matich.