Before the War Finishes Raising Them
JASER ABUMOUSA
Suppose the center of Gaza’s reconstruction were not concrete
but childhood.
The Smoke Signals of a Generation
KENDA MUTONGI
Dispatches from the Kenyan university entrance exam controversy.
Featured Fiction:
Six Nights
MAYS Z. ABUSAWISH
My sister’s whole family is asleep in our living room. I cannot sleep.
A narrator cannot sleep.
Nidia Hernandez (director of the multimedia poetry editorial project La Maja Desnuda), will share with you the very best of Spanish-language poets through podcasts, interviews, and the archived voice recordings of the poets themselves. Join Nidia and Askold Melnyczuk as they present 12 essential Latin American poets, including Rafael Cadenas, Blanca Varela, Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, Cristina Peri Rossi, Jorge Eielson, Piedad Bonnett, and Yolanda Pantin.
Carment Leonor Ferro was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She is a poet and translator of Giuseppe Ungaretti, Antonia Pozzi, Sandro Penna, Claudio Damiani and Annalisa Manstretta. She has a degree in Chemistry from the Simón Bolívar University. She is the founder, with Nidia Hernández of The Nude Maja; she created the publishing house: Luna Nueva of the Universidad Metropolitana, in Caracas, where she worked as professor and Director of Culture. She has lived in Rome since 2004. There she directed the Spanish-American poetry collections of Ediciones Ponte Sisto and Raffaelli Editore, Carmen Leonor Ferro. She currently teaches Spanish at the University of Rome.
She has published “El viaje ”(Monte Avila Editors Award) for unpublished authors 2004), Acrobat (Raffaelli editore 2011), In the subjunctive, (Raffaelli editore 2016), Precarious (Edizioni Ensemble 2019), Temporary (LP5 editora 2022).
The box, 2023, is her most recent book, published in Caracas.
