Three Colombian Poets

September 2017

Poets Piedad Bonnett, Vito Apushana, and Fredy Chicangana lend their verse in this collection, originally featured in the September 2017 issue of Words Without Borders.

from “Latitudes”

By Piedad Bonnett

We searched for the words. We sipped our tea / looking down the bitter well of the past . . .

Translated from Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz

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“Bird Spirit” and “Handful of Earth”

By Fredy Chicangana

These songs to Mother Earth in a major key / are whispers that come from distant forests

Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

“Wayuu (II)” and “Roots”

By Vito Apushana

We are life, this way

Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

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Three Colombian Poets

September 2017

from “Latitudes”

“Bird Spirit” and “Handful of Earth”

“Wayuu (II)” and “Roots”