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In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell

Lost for Words

By Stewart L. Sinclair

Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard

Poetry by Felicia Zamora

Back Draft: Lisa Dillman

By Ben Purkert and Lisa Dillman

Jose Watanabe

The limpid and illusory simplicity of José Watanabe (1946-2007), one of Peru's most revered poets, quietly pervades the poet's seven original volumes of poetry. An author of children’s books and adaptive screenplays, Watanabe is also a contributor to La memoria del ojo: cien años de presencia japonesa en el Perú (Memory of the Eye: A Hundred Years of Japanese Presence in Peru, 1999), a “photographic history” that attests to the World War II relocations of nearly 2000 Japanese Peruvians to U.S. internment camps. His rendition of Antigona (Yuyachkani & Comisión de Derechos Humanos, 2000), deploys the classic to honor those who disappeared amidst the traumatic violence of Peru’s recent decades.
Poetry Bodies & Nature

The Stone in the River

Poetry by José Watanabe, translated from the Spanish by Michelle Har Kim October 1, 2018
When we rose up from the murky water / we'd scale it like lizards.
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