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El Salvador

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By Lauri García Dueñas

to the rain looming over mexico city open your jaws for us make kids laugh dogs bark

Translated from Spanish by Olivia Lott

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The Winners of the 2021 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest

By Words Without Borders

This prize-winning translation haunts.

“It’s Us and Them”: Writing from and about Divided Countries

By Susan Harris

In the current environment of relentless political strife . . . debate deteriorates into name-calling; partisans morph into zealots, complex issues are reduced to binary terms, and hostility seethes just beneath the surface.

Fifteen Days

By Claudia Hernández

They’d take the girls to the hills for three or five days.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

Snatch

By Horacio Castellanos Moya

“He is a survivor, but he doesn’t write like one.”—Roberto Bolaño

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

Ars Poetica

By Roque Dalton

Forgive me for having helped you see

Translated from Spanish by Kelly Washbourne

Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper

By Roque Dalton

These days when my friends die / only their names die.

Translated from Spanish by Kelly Washbourne

From “Senselessness”

By Horacio Castellanos Moya

I am not complete in the mind, said the sentence I highlighted with the yellow marker and even copied into my personal notebook...

Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver