how to be elegant in hell
“Barriga writes from atrocity and the abyss, from unending night as he dances with his demons.” Liliana Colanzi on the work of Julio Barriga.
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Hilda Mundy, the avant-garde
“Literature, in the Dadaist gesture of the author, is a useless project that must be questioned…” Edmundo Paz Soldán pays tribute to the pioneering work of Hilda Mundy.
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postscript — cochabamba
“We returned hungry. We wanted to bathe, wanted to drink rum. We wanted to write or smoke on the balcony. The horizon appeared to expand as the sun went down…” By Claudio Iglesias & Jessica Sequeira.
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i remember… (following Brainard and Perec)
“I once saw a construction worker fall from the rooftop of a two-floor house onto the street. He fell on his head and a pool of dark blood immediately started forming there. I never saw his face because he fell backwards.” By Sebastián Antezana, translated from Spanish by the editorial team of Traviesa.
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the poetry of yesterday and today in bolivia
“Thinking in terms of a golden age is complicated, because it can introduce nostalgia for a past time better than the present, and encourage the idea each period has its corresponding poet, which creates rivalries between the old and the new.” Adapted from Emma Villazón’s talk at the 20th International Feria de Libro in La Paz.
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Disgraphias of the poet: the drawings of Jaime Saenz
“What should one do when the time comes to look at the pen strokes of the drawings of Jaime Saenz, the circular strokes and dizzy loops?…” Excerpted from an essay by Marcelo Villena Alvarado.
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Poet of the Month: Nancy Anne Miller
“…every poet writes from exile. For myself, it took me a long time to acknowledge I was an immigrant.” Nancy Anne Miller, The Missing Slate’s November 2015 Poet of the Month, talks with Afshan Shafi.
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eight ways of speaking about snow
“when I talk/ to you over the phone I like/ your tongue, when you light me/ your fresh poems.” Poem of the Week (January 20), by Agnieszka Wolny-HamkaÅ‚o. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese.
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from ‘Intimations’
“…this one book I have been writing/ in canticles kwéyòl/ dancing lines of lakonmèt and weedova/ their violons and chak-chak in my ear…” Poem of the Week (January 13), by John Robert Lee.
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Age of Blight
“If you revel in the uncanny, this is a collection you will not want to miss.” Sauleha Kamal reviews ‘The Age of Blight’, by Kristine Ong Muslim.
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