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Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Wendy Call

Wendy Call is the author, co-editor, or translator of eight books. She co-edited the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and the annual Best Literary Translations, published by Deep Vellum each spring. Her creative nonfiction book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy and her co-translation of Mikeas Sánchez’s trilingual book How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems both won Gold Medals from the International Latino Book Awards. Together with Irma Pineda, she received the 2022 John Frederick Nims Prize in Translation from the Poetry Foundation. A recent Translator in Residence at the University of Iowa and Fulbright Core (Faculty) Scholar to Colombia, she teaches nonfiction in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA. She lives on Duwamish land, in Seattle, and on Zapotec and Mixtec land, in Oaxaca.
Poetry

There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call June 17, 2025
There are nights so long / so very long / they could form rivers of tears
Poetry

This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call June 17, 2025
so all the birds would flee
Poetry

Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call June 17, 2025
you will hear my ancestors’ voices / piercing your peace
Interview AfricaLit World

In Touch With the Breath of the World

By Wendy Call and Roland Rugero May 19, 2021
Roland Rugero talks about living the literary life in a country of orality, writing across three languages, and upending the Eurocentrism that still decides which African voices get heard.
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