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Q & A with David Shook on Poetry and Translation

By admin - 1 Comment - 14 March 2016 - 8 minutes of reading

Jack Little (Founding Editor of The Ofi Press magazine in Mexico) interviews David Shook (Founding Editor of Phoneme Media, a nonprofit media company that publishes literature in translation from languages including Isthmus Zapotec, Lingala, Mongolian, and Uyghur). Highlights of their conversation include Mexican poetry, translation, the place of location in poetry and Phoneme Media’s […]

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Bakwa Magazine Revista de literatura, arte y música de Camerún al mundo

By admin - Leave a Comment - 11 September 2014 - 2 minutes of reading

A Spanish version of Georgina Mexía-Amador‘s review of Bakwa, which was originally published on Brittle Paper in English, is on Sinfín, a Mexican online magazine. Here’s an excerpt of the review, in Spanish: Desde su aparición en 2012, la revista digital Bakwa Magazine se sitúa en el mapa literario del África subsahariana como

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Resounding Voices from Cameroon and the World find a Home in Bakwa Magazine

By admin - Leave a Comment - 26 August 2014 - 2 minutes of reading

Georgina Mexía-Amador reviews Bakwa magazine for Brittle Paper, a platform which is part of the global literary movement promoting and shaping the way we produce, appraise, and consume African literary works. Here is an excerpt: As a Mexican writer, I do not find it hard to review a magazine such as Bakwa because I acknowledge,

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[Poetry] Languaje by Jack Little

By admin - Leave a Comment - 1 June 2014 - 1 minute of reading

Llenar blank leaves of hojas, wrap them tight in silent ayches, yolling ells. [olas de tears] un ojo wrinkles, the other empalagoso [miss you, querida] raquítico armchair, we slide soñolientamente [I can’t say your name] into tomorrow through archos, sloshways, canal boats miel, jarabe [with scratching “jah”] steal me across the river again

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Bakwa 03

By admin - 1 Comment - 30 November 2012 - 1 minute of reading

Bakwa 03 November 30, 2012 Mexico occupies a unique place in Latin American writing; writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Roberto Bolaño, Gabriel García Márquez, Graham Greene, John Steinbeck, and William S. Burroughs lived in and were influenced by Mexico in abundant ways. In collaboration with The Ofi Press, this issue features new writing

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Editorial 03

By admin - 4 Comments - 30 November 2012 - 3 minutes of reading

For many, the “boom generation” of Latin American writing (1960s and 1970s) which ushered in huge international recognition of Latin America serves as a mixed blessing because, on the one hand it produced writers like as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende, and on the other, it created a

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Editorial 03 (en Español)

By admin - Leave a Comment - 30 November 2012 - 3 minutes of reading

Traducción Fer de la Cruz Para muchos, la “generación del boom” en la literatura latinoamericana (1960s y 70s), que recibió gran reconocimiento, resulta una bendición no exenta de paradoja ya que, por una parte, produjo escritores de la talla de Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa e Isabel Allende y, por otra,

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Pueblo Magico by Monserrat Vazquez del Mercado

By admin - Leave a Comment - 30 November 2012 - 1 minute of reading

Monserrat Vazquez del Mercado is an artist whose work include traditional and digital Illustration, animation and texture design in several projects. Her work mixes stylish and nostalgic themes. She is based in Guadalajara, Mexico. MVR Illustration: mvr.moonfruit.com http://monsevr.deviantart.com/gallery/

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‘Mexican’ Literature by Raúl Bravo Aduna

By admin - 1 Comment - 30 November 2012 - 3 minutes of reading

The words “Mexican Literature” make me feel uneasy. I hardly know what to do when I come across them. And it is not that I’m not a “good Mexican reader”—whatever that means—, but there’s something about that particular literary label that I find disturbing. The problem is, I cannot easily identify one specific type of

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Forwards by Jesse Tangen-Mills

By admin - Leave a Comment - 30 November 2012 - 8 minutes of reading

For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever you’re doing and take this opportunity! Let’s see if Satan can stop this. My grandfather sends forwards. I don’t think many other 87-years-olds use the internet, although in the future they clearly will. In this way my grandfather is a fantastic innovator, one of first octogenarians

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Q & A with David Shook on Poetry and Translation

Bakwa Magazine Revista de literatura, arte y música de Camerún al mundo

Resounding Voices from Cameroon and the World find a Home in Bakwa Magazine

[Poetry] Languaje by Jack Little

Bakwa 03

Editorial 03

Editorial 03 (en Español)

Pueblo Magico by Monserrat Vazquez del Mercado

‘Mexican’ Literature by Raúl Bravo Aduna

Forwards by Jesse Tangen-Mills

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