Désiré Charnay, Ruinas de Kalmanalco, 1858.
what ancestral mercy
A poem by Pura López-Colomé, translated from Spanish by Jason Stumpf
By Edyta Rybak, oil on canvas, 130cm x 160cm, 2021.
Pursued between the cracks of countries
From Copy by Dolores Dorantes, translated by Robin Myers.
The Yellow Room, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), public domain.
And how we violated the calm
Six poems by Angélica Tornero, translated from Spanish by Krista Ingebretson
that which flies, flaps, beats
Four poems by José Alfredo Escobar Martínez, translated by Wendy Call
to measure the body or to neglect it
Two poems by Hugo Gola translated from Spanish by Hugo García Manríquez
A wild tiger’s excesses. Or an ocelot.
Three poems by Macario Matus translated from Zapotec into Spanish by the author, with English translations and an introduction by Wendy Call
Scan from color transparency
a failed defense against our common fate
Three poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated and with a note by Edith Grossman
On the table, to the side of the door, is my heart
An excerpt from Valerie Mejer’s “Countryless,” translated by Torin Jensen