Pablo Jofré & Shook: West Coast Reading Tour
Tue, Aug 12
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore
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.
Time & Location
Aug 12, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
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…