March 26, 2025 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations
Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series.
March 26, 2025 | 3pm PT/6pm ET
Please join us on Wednesday, March 26 at 6pm (EST)/3pm (PST) for an hour of poetry and conversation around the theme of Translation as a Creative and Care Practice. This event is curated jointly by the League of Canadian Poets, The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, and the Health Arts Research Centre.
"Suppose for a moment the claims about pain’s ineffability are historically specific and ideological, that pain is widely declared inarticulate for the reason that we are not supposed to share a language for how we really feel."
-Anne Boyer
This iteration of Cross-Pollinations takes a conceptual turn to think through the art of translation alongside the act of translating embodied experience essential to therapy and counselling.
Join writer, translator, bookseller, Claire Foster, and Psychotherapist SJ Thiessen for a reading, talk, and discussion on translation as both a creative and care practice.
Curated & hosted by Mic Jones & Rhiannon Ng.


Claire Foster
Claire Foster is a reader, writer, and bookseller at TYPE Books. She is also a literary translator from French, most recently of Pierre Clémenti’s 1973 prison memoir, A Few Personal Messages. Her writing and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Public Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Full Stop Quarterly, and The Kenyon Review. Her translation of Valérie Manteau's novel The Furrow (Prix Renaudot, 2018) is forthcoming from Invisible Publishing. Born and raised in Ohio, she lives and works in Toronto.
SJ Thiessen
Recordings from past events can be viewed on YouTube.