Sao Xia, whose name (骚夏) means an unrest summer, has never shied away from writing about lesbian desires. Here are selections from her second collection, Endangered Animals, offered in both in English and Chinese.

When I told my friend, the composer Laura Kaminsky, in the midst of the pandemic, “there’s an opera taking place in my post office,” I never imagined that a year later we would be collaborating on an actual opera, based on this seed of an idea, and that this idea would bear fruit.

The eight poems in this folio are taken from Zimmermann’s latest, winner of the 2025 Prix Max Jacob, France’s highest honor for poets. Translated into English for the first time, these poems are offered alongside the original French.