On September 17, 2003, French-Lebanese poet and writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, author of a dozen collections of poems and as many novels, and recipient of numerous awards including the Prix Mallarmé (1987) and the Prix Apollinaire (1980), celebrated with us the recent publication of She Says (Graywolf Press), a new bilingual collection of poems translated by our Department’s new faculty member Marilyn Hacker. It was a joy to listen to both author and translator, as they kept alternating their readings, in either French or English.