Latin American Art and Poetry

Music

From Fukushima to the Bay of Pigs

Fernando Moreno

A tartaruga escapa da faca afilada

Collage courtesy of La Casa de Carlota, inspired by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's “Quién puede convencer al mar” [Who can convince the sea (to be reasonable) © La Casa de Carlota

Editorial

Retelling the stories of a continent that never needed to be “discovered”

Claudia Itzkowich Schnadower

This repudiation does not go as far as rescinding the “Doctrine of Discovery,” which is what many Indigenous leaders have been demanding.

Art

What blue looks like

Sofia Mesa

Making artwork is my way of making peace with the inner battles that haunt me. I don’t belong anywhere, but I belong everywhere because of it.

Still from Cimarrones (c) Carlos Ferrand

Tribute

Filming in the footsteps of Enrique Verástegui

Carlos Ferrand

In the 70s, Perú was blooming with all sort of audacious ideas, from feminism to social rebellion and sexual liberation. It was feast time for poetry.

Poetry

Latin America

Gloria Macher

the same soil that buries our lives

Poetry

Blockade runners and After reading

Katharine Beeman

because she can only avoid so long

Interview

A seven-legged brontosaur that almost escaped extinction

Claudia Itzkowich Schnadower

When Jordan, another member of the team, was given a model of a brontosaurus, he drew a seven-legged creature. Why?

Film Review

Bye Bye Chicago, by first-time screenwriter Roma Díaz

Shanti Kumari Johnson

There is a particularly treasured moment towards the end of the film where one of the men speaks in Purépecha, Michoacán’s beautiful native language.

Book Review

Contes du coup d’État au Chili

Hugh Hazelton

Leandro Urbina est un des plus grands écrivains chiliens de notre époque. Et voilà que Julie Turcotte, une jeune traductrice montréalaise, pour sa première traduction de l’espagnol (Chili) vers le français, a choisi le premier livre de l’auteur, Mauvaises fréquentations (Las malas juntas).

Book Review

Fire and Water at Once: Honduran Dissident Poetry

Maya Khankhoje

This compilation of poems and short prose pieces by marginalized Honduran writers reflects the diversity of intent and life experience of the authors themselves.