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• THE OVAL PORTRAIT by Soleida Ríos, translated by Margaret Randall

  13 August, by Margaret Randall

  To be read in solitude
  Thirty-four women undress . . . but this isn’t a striptease. The performance is open to the public, the game takes us deep. Each begins by choosing a mask. With it she spins her story and in that story her own image appears as well as the connection (always mysterious) (...)

• Del pequeño Charlie Lindbergh y otros poemas

  22 July, by Margaret Randall

  Cosas 1
  Dos bebieron de esta vasija, de sus afluentes contrarios, hace diez mil estaciones. ¿Eran amantes? ¿Acusado y acusador? ¿Madre y niño?
  Una pequeña espiral desértica pudiera haber señalado un manantial o un ojo de agua. Pudo haber acuñado una visión supernova.
  El cabo del hacha dormía en el (...)

• LA COMANDANTE MAYA

  31 May, by Margaret Randall

  Who was Rita Valdivia? In October 2017, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death in Bolivia, occasion for tributes throughout the world. Margaret Randall defies the absence of women’s stories in Che’s myth, bringing us the brilliant poetry and powerful personal history of this (...)

• By Reynaldo García Blanco

  30 April, by Margaret Randall

  HONORABLE ROQUE DALTON (REVISITED)
  Honorable Roque Dalton, hell or heaven wherever you are we’ve been talking about you for a while. It rained in Medellin and the temperature was ten beers below zero. I despaired because my window looked out on the whores’ quarter and we were talking about (...)

• By Yanira Marimón

  30 April, by Margaret Randall

  Every year, on the same date
  to V.F.
  I never wanted to be just one among multitudes. My delusional eyes were accustomed to being spectators at an endless raging circus.
  I remember it: my feet obeyed the delirious rhythm.
  Someone shouted: A little faster! Imperiously
  (or another sort of (...)