Tag: Portuguese
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* tejiendo roosters: a translation tale
Once upon a time, I was a young poet reading through an anthology of Latin American poetry when I came across a poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto that just blew me away. I wrote the poem down in a notebook - it was in Spanish, translated from the original Portuguese - to translate into […]
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* some origins, manu chao & the friday influence
In regards to the question “When did you start writing?” I give several answers depending on context. If it’s a professional context, I say seventeen, that being the year that I first typed up, printed, and sent off poems to a real lit mag. I call it the year I began to take my writing […]
The Friday Influence 