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Join us for a bilingual poetry reading and conversation with Peruvian poet Roxana Crisólogo and her translator Kim Jensen. Together, they will share key poems from two of Crisólogo’s most recent collections: "Kauneus: Beauty" and "Where to Leave This Much Noise".
Moderated by John Apruzzese.
Presented by the Creative Writing Program at The New School for Social Research.
Roxana Crisólogo is a Peruvian poet, translator, and cultural worker whose books of poetry include Abajo sobre el cielo (Lima, 1999) whose Finnish translation was published by Kääntöpiiri, Helsinki, 2001; Animal del camino (Lima, 2001); Ludy D (Lima, 2006); Trenes(Mexico, 2010, republished by Ediciones Libros del Cardo, Chile in 2019); and Eisbrecher(Icebreaker) Hochroth Verlag (Berlin, 2017).
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Dr. Kim Jensen is a Baltimore-based writer, poet, professor, and translator who has lived in California, France, and Palestine. Her books include an experimental novel, The Woman I Left Behind, and two collections of poems, Bread Alone and The Only Thing that Matters. She was a finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards, Fordham University’s Poets Out Loud Prize, the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize and the New American Poetry Prize, and was a recent honoree for the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation. Active in transnational peace and social justice movements for decades, Kim’s writings have been featured in Gulf Coast, MQR, Modern Poetry in Translation, Boulevard, Words Without Borders; Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora, Anomaly, Extraordinary Rendition: Writers Speak Out on Palestine, Gaza Unsilenced, Bomb Magazine, Sukoon, Mizna Another Chicago Magazine, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Liberation Literature, and many others. In 2001, she won the Raymond Carver Award for short fiction.
Roxana Crisólogo is a Peruvian poet, translator, and cultural worker whose books of poetry include Abajo sobre el cielo (Lima, 1999) whose Finnish translation was published by Kääntöpiiri, Helsinki, 2001; Animal del camino (Lima, 2001); Ludy D (Lima, 2006); Trenes(Mexico, 2010, republished by Ediciones Libros del Cardo, Chile in 2019); and Eisbrecher(Icebreaker) Hochroth Verlag (Berlin, 2017). Her works have been translated into Italian, German, Finnish, French and Swedish. Kauneus: la belleza (Lima, 2021) was republished by Ediciones Nebliplateada, Buenos Aires, 2023. Her book Dónde Dejar Tanto Ruido (2023) was reissued by Gog y Magog Ediciones in 2025. Her new book is titled “Esta canción no termina de salir de mi boca” (Álbum del Universo Bakterial , 2025). Crisólogo is the founder of Sivuvalo Platform, a multilingual literature association based in Helsinki. She was president of the association of Finnish left-wing artists and writers, Kiila. Crisólogo’s literary work and projects have been supported by the Finnish foundations, Kone Foundation, Finnish Literature Exchange, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Kari Mattila Säätiö and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
