We're excited to announce Pablo Jofré's West Coast Tour, with special appearances by Olga Garcia and Shook.
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August 2nd, San Diego: 6:30pm, Libélula – presents Pablo Jofré with Olga Garcia
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August 7th, Los Angeles: 7:00pm, North Figueroa – presents Pablo Jofré with Shook
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August 12th, San Francisco: 7:00pm, Medicine for Nightmares – presents Pablo Jofré with Shook
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.
Also featured is Pigs in Delirium by Jorge Carlos Fonseca, a surreal and incisive collection recently brought into English for the first time by Shook.
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.
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Pablo Jofré is a writer of Chilean origin. He is the author of the poetry collections Abecedario (Salc 2009, Siníndice 2012, Cuarto Propio 2016), winner of the Gabriela Mistral Lagar Poetry and Essay Prize 2009; Usted (Milena Berlin 2013); Extranjería (Cuarto Propio 2017), which includes the poem LA DANZA DE LA EXISTENCIA, winner of the 2010 poetry prize from the City of Sant Andreu de la Barca; and Berlín Manila ( LUPI / Zoográfico 2019), winner of a 2016 literary creation grant from the Fondo del Libro (Chile); all of which are included in Entre tanta calle ( Amargord 2020, Cuarto Propio 2024).
He has participated in the international literature festivals Crossroads in New York (2014), LEA in Athens (2015), George Town in Malaysia (2016/2017), Genoa, the LIFEs biennial in Jakarta (2017), Enclave in Mexico City, the Poesiefestival in Berlin, the European Festival in Cologne (2020) and the Kerouac Festival CDMX (2022).
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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.
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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.
