Yvette Neisser
Award-winning poet and Spanish translator
Latest News
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Yvette's essay on poetry translation published in The Writer's Center Magazine (Fall 2026): "One Poet, Two Translators: Preserving the Essence of Voice."
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New poems published in ArliJo and Vox Populi.
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From the Diary of Madame Mao wins Carnegie Mellon University Press Translation Prize! Yvette Neisser and Patricia Bejarano Fisher's co-translation of Maria Teresa Ogliastri's haunting poetry collection is forthcoming on October 6, 2026.
Upcoming Events ...
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Sep. 19, 2026, 7-9pm: 804 Lit Salon. Yvette Neisser and other local writers read from their work. Washington, DC.
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Sep. 28, 2026, 6pm: Bouquet of Languages Reading. The Cheuse Center and DC-ALT present: Reading by Tamil writer B. Jeyamohan, followed bouquet of translators, including Yvette Neisser reading from Maria Teresa Ogliastri. Busboys and Poets, 14th & V Streets NW, Washington, DC
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Oct. 18, 2026, 7pm: From the Diary of Madame Mao Virtual Book Launch! Lit Up Live hosts author Maria Teresa Ogliastri and co-translators Yvette Neisser and Patricia Bejarano Fisher for a reading and discussion moderated by Jona Colson.
See Events page for more!
About Iron into Flower:
"Neisser takes her readers on a journey examining family, religion, love, loss, grief, and recovery ... There is an ache at the center of each poem in this collection – an ache to connect, an ache to understand, an ache to set things right, an ache to reclaim what has been lost. Like the title of the collection suggests, Neisser’s poems consistently turn something hard and cold into something fragile and beautiful."
-Ginny Phalen, Loch Raven Review
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