Events Open to the Public 2026

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ and Translators’ Conferences 2026

Lectures and readings are free and open to the public. Events are subject to change; call 802-443-5286 to confirm days and times.

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Welcome by directors Jennifer Grotz and Megan Mayhew Bergman, and Readings by Jennifer Croft and Helen Macdonald

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Ramona Ausubel, “You Are Your Most Important Reader: On Trust and Orientation in the Wilderness of Making and Sharing”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Damion Searls, “The Translator’s Mastery, The Translator’s Enthusiasm”

2:15 p.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Kazim Ali, “Trans*Classiks: Agbabi’s Chaucer, Bang’s Dante, Oswald’s Homer, Rekdal’s Ovid, Clifton’s Milton”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Hosam Abou-Ela, Jennifer Chang, and Ben Goldfarb

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Jennifer Chang, “Extinctions: Against Forgetting”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Mónica de la Torre, “Strictly Alimentary: Beckett and the Mysteries of Paz’s UNESCO Mexican Poetry Anthology”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Anton Hur, Joseph O. Legaspi, and Megan Mayhew Bergman

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Hosam Aboul-Ela, “Where Do Translators Come From?”

4:30 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Abe Streep, Amber Flora Thomas, and Mónica de la Torre

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Nina McConigley, “Empires and Ecosystems”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Jennifer Croft, “Multiplicity and Bare Communication”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Ramona Ausubel, Jennifer Grotz, and Damion Searls

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Ben Goldfarb, “Concrete Futures: Losing and Locating Nature in the Built Environment”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Anton Hur, “When Is It Time to Stop Translating?”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Kazim Ali and Nina McConigley