Thursday, September 29, 2016

Two poems by Mercedes Roffé (Argentina, 1954), translated by Judith Filc / Dos poemas de Mercedes Roffé

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VI a bridge stretched from one syllable to the next he you she are not everyone traces perhaps of an old assembly gat...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Elizabeth Bishop on writing poetry / EB, acerca de la escritura de poesía

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Some poems begin as a set of words that you aren’t sure what they apply to, but eventually they accumulate and become lines, and then yo...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Two poems by Elicura Chihuailaf (Nación Mapuche, Chile, 1952), translated by Judith Filc / Dos poemas de EC

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This land is inhabited by stars This land is inhabited by stars In this sky sings the water of imagination Beyond the clouds r...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe on the place of poetry / PLL acerca del lugar de la poesía

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This is why poetry, if it ever occurs, occurs as the brutal revelation of the abyss that contains art (language) and nevertheless const...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

A poem by Carlos López Degregori (Peru, 1952), translated by Judith Filc / Un poema de Carlos López Degregori

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Sleeping in This Box 1 I sleep in this box. I close my eyes and fists and crush birds until they are an anticipation of...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

Susan Howe on writing poetry / Susan Howe sobre la escritura de poesía

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Paul Valéry once said, “The mollusk does not know its shell until it lives it,” so I curl up inside and work and wait. In my shell are bo...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Two poems by Micaela Chirif (Peru, 1973), translated by Judith Filc / Dos poemas de Micaela Chirif

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an apple pumps your blood on the whitest end of the bed looking at it I discover that the sun was yours and also the tree and t...