Celebrating their ongoing collaboration, the tour spotlights Street by Street (Insert Press), a restless, queer, and border-crossing body of work that moves from Berlin to Bangkok to Santiago across five collections written between 2006 and 2020. Translated into English by Shook, Street by Street explores exile, desire, and alien status with humor, lyricism, and irreverence.

Shook will also read from their translation of Pigs in Delirium by Jorge Carlos Fonseca, a bold, surreal collection that veers from the grotesque to the absurdly political. Recently translated by Shook and published by Insert Press, it marks the first appearance of Fonseca’s poetry in English.

Together, these readings offer a rare look at transnational poetic exchange—across languages, geographies, and lived experience.

Presented by Insert Press with support from Instituto Cervantes Los Angeles and the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage.

Pablo Jofré is a Chilean poet and translator. His work includes Entre tanta calle (Amargord/Cuarto Propio) and Street by Street (Insert Press), translated into English by Shook. Jofré has translated writers such as Bernice Chauly, Nora Gomringer, and Elfriede Jelinek, and his own poetry has appeared in multiple languages and international festivals.

Olga Garcia (Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, 1951) is a poet, physicist, and mathematician (ITESM, Monterrey Campus). She is the editor of the bilingual SD Poetry Annual and a member of the SD Haiku Study Group. Her most recent publication is Visitaciones (Editorial Cinosargo, Chile; Los Pájaros, Mexico). Her books are published under her Mexican name, Olga Gutierrez Galindo. Her pseudonym is enriKetta luissi.

Shook is a poet, translator, and editor of Insert Press' MANIFESTOH! imprint. Their most recent translations include Jorge Carlos Fonseca's Pigs in Delirium (Insert Press), Jorge Lauten's Bury My Heart on Mount Ramelau: Revolutionary Poems from Timor-Leste (Gato Negro Ediciones), and Mario Bellatin's Mishima's Head (Hanuman Editions). Their translation of Pablo Jofré's Street by Street was published by Insert Press in 2023.