Begin before the beginning. As an epigraph to their recent collection Space Struck, Paige Lewis offers this passage from Book XIV of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: So while they journeyed up that sloping road, the Sibyl told her story to Aeneas; they exited the underworld at Cumae, and there Aeneas offered customary […]
Daniel Saldaña París is a writer born in Mexico City in 1989. His first novel, Among Strange Victims, was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. He won the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award in 2020, and his second novel, Ramifications, is forthcoming this year from […]
Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based translator and poet. She is among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest held by Words Without Borders and the Academy of American Poets. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press), Empty Pool by Isabel Zapata (Editorial Argonáutica), Manca by […]
The Truth of Diction Daniel Tiffany makes much of the root dict- in “diction,” and properly so. He traces it to the Greek deixis, the action of pointing, in order to explore how the way we talk points to where (or when) we come from and the company we […]
Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based translator and poet. She is among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest held by Words Without Borders and the Academy of American Poets. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press), Empty Pool by Isabel Zapata (Editorial Argonáutica), Manca by Juana […]
Michael Davidson is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent book is Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Xel-Ha López Méndez (Guadalajara, 1991) is a poet and artist. She has published Chronicles of a new century (Quinqué cooperative editorial, 2016), and Love letters for my friend the pig (Letour1987, 2015). She was the recipient of the FONCA Young Creators grant 2017-2018 for alternative media and performance, and […]
In The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions into Devotion, a collection of essays part faith memoir, part investigative journalism (though much else as well), Sonja Livingston admits that her return to the Catholic Church was what she ultimately could not continue evading. As she says, “The question is not why […]
Essy Stone recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. She received an MFA from the University of Miami, but spent most of her life as a waitress in East Tennessee. Her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, and is forthcoming in The […]
There’s such energy in this story, a really wonderful movement of thought and feeling. I felt surprised by these movements again and again, consistently delighted by what the story brought before me with each new shift, each new insight, each new image or figure. Reading it I kept thinking Where did […]