U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze to Launch Laureateship with Inaugural Reading, Translation Programs
November 19th, 2025
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U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will open his tenure in December with a workshop and reading focused on poetry translation at Queens College of the City University of New York, in the borough where he grew up, followed by his inaugural reading at the Library of Congress on Dec. 11 (rescheduled from October) and two poetry translation workshops in Sze’s hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze plans to engage with students and the public in a series of readings and workshops focused on translating poetry originally written in other languages during his laureateship. Translation is an important way Sze learned to write poetry, he has said. Queens College, located where poet Walt Whitman once taught in a one-room school house, offers an MFA in creative writing and literary translation. The borough is also known as one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world.
