Don't miss this reading, rich in three languages, as we welcome Brenda Cárdenas who writes in English and Spanish, Judy Halebsky and her Japanese co-translator, Ayako Takahashi. Our light refreshments will speak the language of deliciousness. 

Brenda Cárdenas has authored Trace (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and Silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies such as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Braving the Body. Cárdenas has served as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate and is Professor Emerita of English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections—Sky=Empty, Tree Line, and Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)—and the chapbook Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. She co-translated, with Ayako Takahashi, Since Fukushima, a collection of poems by Ryoichi Wago, from the Japanese. Widely published, her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center. Halebsky directs the low-residency MFA program at Dominican University.

Ayako Takahashi is a professor of Human Science and the Environment at the University of Hyogo in Himeji, Japan. Her recent books include Ambiance: Ecopoetics in the Anthropocene and Reading Gary Snyder. She has published Japanese language translations of many American poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Anne Waldman, and Joanne Kyger, among others.

In collaboration with the Marin Poetry Center