The fourth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is going on from Tuesday, April 29th through Sunday, May 4th. 181 writers from 51 countries are participating in 82 events in New York. I think you should be able to find one or two that appeal to you. Go here for more information on the festival, and here for a full schedule of events.

Also this week:

Tuesday, April 29, 7:30pm
Housing Works Used Bookstore & Café (126 Crosby St.)
Circumference: A Journal of Poetry in Translation

Close out Poetry Month by attending this reading from the newest issue of Circumference, which, as the byline suggests, is a literary journal featuring poetry in translation. Brian Henry will read his reads his translations of Tomaz Salamun and Ales Steger from the Slovenian; Christina Svendsen will read translations of Kurt Schwitters from German, Jeffrey Yang will read his treanslation of Su Shi from Chinese, and Bitite Vinklers will read translations of Imants Ziedonis from Latvian. To be followed with a Q + A and signing.

Friday, May 2, 7:00pm
McNally Robinson (52 Prince Street between Lafayette and Mulberry)
Jonathan Lethem and DJ Spooky

It’s a night of music and language at McNally on Friday. Jonathan Lethem (author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude) is reading from his latest novel, his latest novel, You Don’t Love Me Yet, now out in paperback if you were waiting to read it until then. Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, will read from Sound Unbound, a meditation on the remix.