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Jacqui Cornetta

Contributor

Jacqui Cornetta

United States

Jacqui Cornetta is a writer, translator, and musician. Their work appears in Circumference, Lost & Found: CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative, the Puerto Rico Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She teaches at Queens College CUNY.

Articles by Jacqui Cornetta

Photo by Nikita Castro on Unsplash

[The sea swarms. Your shout extends]

By Claudia Becerra

The subjects of Claudia Becerra’s three poems, translated here by Jacqui Cornetta, are bounded by the shores of real and imaginary islands as they observe the arrivals and departures of others.

Translated from Spanish by Jacqui Cornetta

Left, the book cover of Velorio. Right, a portrait of author Xavier Navarro Aquino.

Breaking Language Open: Xavier Navarro Aquino on Writing Hurricane Maria in His Debut Novel

By Jacqui Cornetta

A multivoiced narrative was essential for the telling of the storm.

First Read—From “Querido Pablito / Julissimo Querido: Selected Correspondence, 1950–1971”

By Paul Blackburn & Julio Cortázar

Edited and Translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Jacqueline Cornetta, Alison Macomber, and Alexander SoriaThe following is excerpted from Querido Pablito / Julissimo Querido: Selected Correspondence, 1950–1971,…

Translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Jacqui Cornetta, Alison Macomber & Alexander Soria

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Jacqui Cornetta

Jacqui Cornetta

Articles by Jacqui Cornetta

[The sea swarms. Your shout extends]

Breaking Language Open: Xavier Navarro Aquino on Writing Hurricane Maria in His Debut Novel

First Read—From “Querido Pablito / Julissimo Querido: Selected Correspondence, 1950–1971”