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Read more about the article stepping on eggshells with leaden feet
Aki Turunen, Rio delle lune, 2023. Courtesy of SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY.

stepping on eggshells with leaden feet

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:October 9, 2023
  • Post category:featured/poetry

A poem by Eugenia Toledo-Keyser, translated from Spanish by Erin Goodman

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Read more about the article vagueness has erased the inessential
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Open your heart because everything will change, 2023.

vagueness has erased the inessential

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:September 26, 2023
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Three poems by Julieta Vittore Dutto, translated from Spanish by Emma Lloyd

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Read more about the article mother cuts the truth with scissors
Yoav Hainebach, A Big Umbrella, 2018.

mother cuts the truth with scissors

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:May 15, 2023
  • Post category:featured/poetry
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Two poems from DELICATES by Wendy Guerra, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

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Read more about the article under the lead of clouds
Erika Lally, Rest, 2021.

under the lead of clouds

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:April 18, 2023
  • Post category:featured/poetry
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Three poems by Jaime Francisco Matorras, translated from Spanish by René Milet

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Read more about the article choking, little by little
Egon Schiele, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vosrstadt II), 1914.

choking, little by little

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:December 20, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

A poem by Martha Asunción Alonso, translated from Spanish by Robin Munby

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Read more about the article half-built with syllables
Franz Marc. The Bewitched Mill, 1913. The Art Institute of Chicago.

half-built with syllables

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:November 29, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

A poem by Ignacio Elizalde Johnson, translated from Spanish by Thania Muñoz D.

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Read more about the article what ancestral mercy
Désiré Charnay, Ruinas de Kalmanalco, 1858.

what ancestral mercy

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:November 1, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Issue 1/poetry

A poem by Pura López-Colomé, translated from Spanish by Jason Stumpf

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Read more about the article Pursued between the cracks of countries
By Edyta Rybak, oil on canvas, 130cm x 160cm, 2021.

Pursued between the cracks of countries

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:July 6, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry/Uncategorized

From Copy by Dolores Dorantes, translated by Robin Myers.

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Read more about the article and gone are the seasons/ dormant under smoke
Florencia Rodriguez Giles, Viaje Inmóvil, 2020, courtesy of the artist, photograph by Pedro Serr.

and gone are the seasons/ dormant under smoke

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:April 20, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Two poems by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver

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Read more about the article And how we violated the calm
The Yellow Room, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), public domain.

And how we violated the calm

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:January 30, 2022
  • Post category:featured/Issue 5/poetry

Six poems by Angélica Tornero, translated from Spanish by Krista Ingebretson

Continue ReadingAnd how we violated the calm
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