Results for "Call, Wendy"

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas S nchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology... Read More about How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)

Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally wr... Read More about Best Literary Translations 2024

Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists. The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Tell... Read More about Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec—the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico—for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country's “little waist,” a place long known for its strong wome... Read More about No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy

An illustrated, trilingual collection of contemporary Zapotec poetry. "Irma Pineda's poems and Wendy Call's translations evoke tragedy, and celebrate the ways in which the human is built from dream, tradition, and nature. Self-translated as 'mirror-poems' by Pineda, from Isthmus Zapotec into Spanish... Read More about In the Belly of Night and Other Poems