Ways of Translating a Poem in The Somerville Times

I have a new poem in today's Lyrical Somerville.

Thank you, Doug Holder!

Ways of Translating a Poem

Also on dversepoets

 One of my very favorite online poetry journals, Atrium Poetry, has published a poem of mine today.

A Couple of Sundays

Thank you to editors Claire Walker and Holly McGill.

27 Years & Pájaros de Barro

 OR We Are Now in The 27 Club

Pájaros de Barro

Hoy son pájaros de barro que quieren volar –Manolo García

Our hands met in the thick clay

of providence’s two-tongued river.

We made a dam in our haste –

birds of clay from sanctified waters.

Our hands entwined and we carried

those clay birds to the sea; the beach

blew its white sand over us all –

a blessing, a bonding, a benediction.

Our hands wrenched apart – drought

in our two-tongued river drained

the sea, left you dry, me full of salt

water our clay birds could not drink.

Our hands turned into my hands which

have held our clay birds up to each

rising tide. I hold them again, feel

your touch as they empty my hands.

Poetry Northwest Poem of the Week

A poem I translated from Mónica Ojeda's collection Historia de la leche

 is Poem of the Week at Poetry Northwest.

Read on Poetry Northwest

Sant Jordi #24

    After the Hail 

          for Pep, 24 years later 

The apple tree died while I 

was gone, its bark stripped 

and fallen back to the pot, 

the largest one on the terrace.

Stark, nobby branches choked 

by equally dead morning glory 

tendrils hold sacs of seeds 

stiffly in the April wind. 

Both dead things remain 

to train the thick nasturtium 

stalks with their wealth 

of perpetual sunset. 

Opposite, the barely salvaged 

pine tree pushes its newborn 

needles towards the sun. They

follow east to south to west. 

Among all the dead branches 

in sunburned pots bursting 

with wild garlic, clover, asparagus, 

the surprise of this tall purple iris. 

 🐍🌹📚

Poesía en acción #17

 Better late than never!

Poesía en acción published my translation of two poems from Mónica Ojeda's Historia de la leche, along with the originals. 

Link to poems

There's also a micro interview with me.

Link to micro interview

I'm very grateful to Olivia Lott for the invitation, and grateful to Kate Hedeen of Action Books, who first encouraged me to pursue getting these poems published in English. And exceedingly grateful to Mónica for writing them and letting me translate them.

It's been a weird year and a half, but I'm grateful for a lot of things. Happy Thanksgiving!

🦃

Translations! Some poems by Carlos Vitale in Words and Worlds journal

 

Words and Worlds have published three poems by Carlos Vitale alongside my English translations in the Summer Issue.

SUMMER ISSUE / SOMMER AUSGABE 2020

This great online journal focuses on the immigrant experience.

The View from Olympia Anthology

Thrilled to have a poem of mine included in this Olympic anthology, alongside many

wonderful poets and friends. I especially love sharing the page with Carole Bromley.

This was also my very first launch event, thanks to zoom and the pandemic, and it was also a thrill to read and to listen.

Thank you to Joe Williams and to Half Moon Books!

24 April 2020 (22 years later)

April 24, 2020

                      For Pep, 22 years later

You tried to steal all of my holidays:

your birthday, just days before mine;

Bloomsday forever the anniversary

of your death. Somehow, until today,

Sant Jordi had escaped. Never a holiday – 

none of mine ever were – World Book Day

is now a thing, but then Sant Jordi was mine

by adoption – count the books in my house

dated April 23^rd – and yours by birth: 

Barcelona being the only thing we had

in common when we succumbed to the thrill

of the first kiss, to the knowledge that we had

arrived at our shared doorstep, our first day

of blind choices, so glaringly obvious

in hindsight.

Those six books, because you made it

to a sixth, line the shelf by our bed, the bed

I haven’t slept in since February, since

travelling home to see our daughter fence

and being trapped by this pandemic. Trapped

at home, not home. In a house I never grew up in,

with a father I barely recognize, far from all

those books, from all those Sant Jordis

on my own, with my girls, with you, without you,

on my own.

Here at my home not home I have nothing to hand

which your hand touched, no inscription, no dates,

no declarations of love. This is my seventeenth

Sant Jordi without you, though you never took it

away. It has taken a pandemic. So now, instead

of Sant Jordi, instead of streets full of books and

young people hawking roses, instead of exhaustion

from kilometers shuffled among human currents

flowing past author signings, spending too much

money, weighted by books I will never finish, I am

quarantined, confined. the first Sant Jordi I have

missed. The first Sant Jordi I have spent

just missing you.

kc 23 April 2020
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Blue Breeze in The Beach Hut

So very pleased to have my hard-to-place poem Blue Breeze
@TheBeachHut7, a fantastic online collection of seaworthy poetry and prose.
The image chosen to accompany my poem is also amazing. h/t @JPlenio 

Today @TheBeachHut7 we have a #poem by Kymm Coveney @KymmInBarcelona #BlueBreeze and what a gem it is! 🌊#writingforwellness #coastalinspired #WritingCommunity #poetry https://t.co/i5S3q38Zux

— The Beach Hut (@TheBeachHut7) March 9, 2020

Three Poems in The Blue Nib #40

Three of my poems have been included in The Blue Nib, issue #40.

Looping Gravity
Cauldron Song
Aftermath





I read them at Ateneu La Base for PoémameBCN. See the review.

Cauldron Song was also Highly Commended in the 2018 Prole Laureate poetry competition.

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‘Care and Management of a New Year’ @ Ink Sweat & Tears

Proud to start the new year with a poem on Ink Sweat & Tears, a poetry site I’ve followed since #52 began, and longed to publish in. Happy 2020!

Care and Management of a New Year

A hearty thank you to Helen Ivory and Kate Birch and, as always, to Jo Bell and her 52 poetry project.

🥂

A version of this poem was longlisted in the 2017 Amaryllis Christmas and New Year Poetry Competition. Thanks also to Stephen Daniels.

Translation in One Handed

One Handed issuu Papi xl8

Translation of Five Poems by Carlos Vitale in Sahitto Literary Magazine

Despite the site crashing on occasion, my translation of five of Carlos Vitale's poems were published (in August) in the online Bangladeshi journal "Sahitto Literary Magazine".

Sahitto Literary Magazone

Crewing for Bonnie

I was so pleased to be included in the Bonnie´s Crew print anthology, out this past May, with my poem "Growing Up Girl". This small but powerful book of poetry, apart from wowing you with poems, dedicates all proceeds to the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit via the Children's Heart Surgery Fund (Leeds, U.K.).

To order a copy of the anthology, head to Bonnie's Crew.

Here's a link to the JustGiving page.

And Bonnie's Crew is also an ongoing, online poetry site. Enjoy!

Translation for Surreal Poetics

I have a translation of the wonderful Colombian poet, Armando Romero, up at Surreal Poetics.

Las dos palabras / The Two Words




















http://surrealpoetics.weebly.com/issue03-romero-lasdospalabras.html

To Me They Are A Homonym on Picaroon Poetry's Issue #2 / A Poetry of Elephants Anthology (2 poems)

Picaroon Poetry Issue #2 has a poem of mine, To Me They Are a Homonym, on page 11.
It involves a small Spanish lesson, and is accompanied by many wonderful piratey poems.




I also have two elephant-themed poems in Rebecca Gethin's A Poetry of Elephants, here,
pages 11 and 12 in issuu, among many lovely elephant poems.

Three Poems on Clear Poetry

Today I'm featured on Clear Poetry, one of my very favorite poetry sites.

  Clear Poetry

  Thank you, Ben Banyard! xx