Tag: Spanish
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The Writing Life: TV interview
This week I’m excited to share an interview I did over this past summer as a guest on Stephen Long’s show The Writing Life. In this interview, I talk a bit about my history with the Spanish language, from it being my first language as a child and the one I learned to pray in and…
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* nosing with quevedo & williams
One of the more exciting moments in reading is coming across texts that show a writer’s own reading creeping into their writing. In my own work, I can think of an orange I inadvertantly stole from a Gary Soto poem as well as a prayer reformulated from an Ernest Hemingway short story. These are…
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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 