Craig Epplin

Craig Epplin has published reviews, essays, and creative nonfiction in Public Books, Words Without Borders, Music & Literature, The Bosphorus Review of Books, and Guernica, as well as translations of short works by José Martí, César Aira, and Enrique Vila-Matas. He is Associate Professor of Latin American literature at Portland State University, and is the author of the monograph Late Book Culture in Argentina (Bloomsbury).

Poetry

Snapshot in the Kitchen for Minerva Margarita

Andrea Cote Botero Translated from Spanish by Craig Epplin March 17, 2025

and boys / that barely cross the threshold / and become men

Poetry

Your Name

Andrea Cote Botero Translated from Spanish by Craig Epplin March 17, 2025

I’ll leave a note in the weeds / I know nothing about the others

Poetry

Animal

Andrea Cote Botero Translated from Spanish by Craig Epplin March 17, 2025

But here, you know, I ride the train like straddling / the back of something, with others right behind

Poetry Bodies & Nature

Dispatch from the Clorox War

Poetry by Andrea Cote Botero, translated from the Spanish by Craig Epplin November 19, 2020

I believe there are two worlds. / In one of them I clean it all, / all the time.

Commentary Arts & Culture Economy

Snowball’s Chance, Ten Years Later

By Craig Epplin August 17, 2012

A decade after John Reed's Orwell parody was released, it still feels current, and, perhaps, even more relevant than before.

Interview Lit World

Sergio Chejfec: A Machine of Illusions

By Carmen García Durazo and Craig Epplin November 3, 2011

The Argentine writer on the English translation of his novel My Two Worlds, its meandering motifs, and its desire to remain or disappear.