Wendy Call

Wendy Call is co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories, author of the award-winning book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy, and translator of Irma Pineda’s In the Belly of Night and Other Poems.

In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems / En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas / Ndaani’ Gueela’ ne xhupa diidxaguie’ by Irma Pineda

By Irma Pineda

November 2022
Irma Pineda

Illus. Natalia Gurovich. Mexico City. Pluralia Ediciones e Impresiones. 2021. 160 pages. TO PUBLISH POETRY written in endangered Indigenous languages not only preserves the language b...
Giving Voice to Words: Translation as Collective Transformation in Zoque

By Mikeas Sánchez

Autumn 2021
Mikeas Sánchez

Photo by Se Osomajtli Tsawi For Indigenous writers like Zoque poet and activist Mikeas Sánchez, language serves as a unifying element in the struggle to defend lands and life. This essay’s...
Two Wayuu Poems

By Lindantonella Solano Mendoza

Autumn 2019
Lindantonella Solano Mendoza

Miktlanziwatl (Lady of Death) © Cara Romero. All Rights Reserved. Abyayala Full of Questions América, I don’t invoke your name. When I bare my heart to the sword...
We Are Millions

By Mikeas Sánchez

Autumn 2019
Mikeas Sánchez

The Weapon is Sharing (This Machine Kills Fascists), by Cannupa Hanska Luger, ceramic, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist. The Zoque and Spanish originals of this poem appear in Mike...
By Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo, Victor Terán

January 2012
Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo, Victor Terán

Irma Pineda "You Will Not See Me Die" Natalia Toledo "The Weaver" "For T.S. Eliot" Victor Terán "I Know Your Body"