I am overjoyed to share that my poem in Spanish, “Ode to Guayaquil,” appears in the August 2018 edition of The Acentos Review! There is a great line up of poets in this issue that I am grateful to be counted among – including Alexandra Gulden, Monica Garcia, and ire’ne lara silva!
You can read the entire issue here: The Acentos Review
And I have a new bio pic!
ACROSS
Leaping-
free fall, airborne
suspended
reckless, open innovation
that mysterious thing
opening and closing.
Scenes, lying there
waiting, not explaining.
…
An insatiable fascination
with language,
selfless reverence
to make it come alive,
my palm
against her palm.
Sunday morning, June 4, 2017 was the first official day of the Bread Loaf Translators Conference in Ripton, VT. Our very first craft lecture was by Idra Novey, and this poem is a cento from her lecture. Idra is a poet, novelist, and translator from the Spanish and Portuguese. Her lecture was a perfect beginning to the conference, because she encapsulated exactly what it feels like to be a translator, with humor, insight, and heart. Thank you, Idra! On a side note, she is also super cool and fun to hang out with, and I wish I got to hang out with her more 🙂
I submitted my manuscript of translations of Mario Benedetti’s poems and got accepted to the Bread Loaf Translators Conference this year. I am super excited, and cannot wait to be in Vermont this summer. In addition to the joy of being accepted, I was also honored with a Katharine Bakeless Nason scholarship.
