Reading: Kelsi Vanada, Emma Winsor Wood, poupeh missaghi, Chenxin Jiang, Thursday, August 28, 2025, 7pm
Join us on Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 7pm for a reading of new writing (including original work and translations) by Kelsi Vanada, Emma Winsor Wood, poupeh missaghi, and Chenxin Jiang. The event takes place at Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Ave. in Denver, and is free and open to the public.
Kelsi Vanada is the author of the poetry collection Optional Saint (Bench Editions, 2025) and the chapbook Rare Earth, and the translator from Spanish and Swedish of seven books of poetry and creative nonfiction, including Day’s Fortune by Carlo Acevedo and The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela. Kelsi was a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow and works as Senior Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association in Tucson, AZ.
Emma Winsor Wood is the author of Preferred Internal Landscape (Ornithopter, 2025) and The Real World (BlazeVOX, 2022). Her writing has appeared in The Drift, The American Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, Fence, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Originally from New York City, but most at home in California, she is currently a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
poupeh missaghi is a writer, editor, translator (between English and Persian) and educator. Her books include Sound Museum (2024) and trans(re)lating house one (2020), both with Coffee House Press. Her translations include Boys of Love by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), In the Streets of Tehran by Nila (Bonnier Books, 2023), and I’ll be Strong for You by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021). She is currently an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, and a faculty mentor at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
Chenxin Jiang (she/her) translates from Italian, German, and Chinese. Her most recent translation is for now I am sitting here gowing transparent by Yau Ching (Zephyr Press, 2025) and she is also working on a book of poems by Jiang Hao (Northwestern, forthcoming 2026). She is based in Denver and serves as president of the board for the American Literary Translators Association.