On April 18, 2025 DMLL hosted its traditional International and Multilingual Poetry Festival: Poetry for Hope. Faculty, students, and guest poets read poetry in English, French, German, Hebrew, Korean, Occitan, and Russian.

A sincere thank you to the following 2025 participants:

Students: Susie Kim, Reina Maeda, Molly McLaughlin, Silvana Corrales Caltelmi, Caleb Oh, Andrew Cho, James Bish, and Katarina Djordjevic.

DMLL faculty: Ching-Hsuan Wu (Professor of Chinese), Damaris Punales-Alpizar (Department Chair and Professor of Spanish), Patrick Lyons (Professor of French), Nadav Linial (Professor of Hebrew), Fabienne Pizot-Haymore (Professor of French), Hyun Kyung Kim (Professor of Korean), Enno Lohmeyer (Professor of German), and Tatiana Zilotina (Professor of Russian).

Guest poets: Mohammed Kenzi, William Lowe, Inge Wehrmann, and Aleksandr Kabanov.