eXchanges, the University of Iowa's online journal of literary translation, will celebrate the launch of its new Fall issue, Roots & Branches, in Shambaugh House on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Join the editors of the journal for refreshments and fine literature as local translators Puja Birla, Emily Goedde, and Diana Thow read from their contributions to the issue.

Other contributors to the issue include Kristof Magnusson, a 2008 International Writing Program participant, and Michelle Gil-Montero, who completed her MFA as a poet in the Writers' Workshop in 2007.

These and other translators interact with the issue's theme, Roots & Branches, in intriguing and provocative ways with their translations of prose and poetry from French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Italian, Hindi, Icelandic and Japanese.

The issue will be available on Nov. 20 at http://www.uiowa.edu/~xchanges/.