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About Háel Lopez

Háel Lopez was born in 1994 in Guatemala City, but has lived in El Tejar, Chimaltenango. She’s studying Sociology and has participated in readings and festivals in Guatemala City, Chimaltenango, Sumpango, and Xela. Her collection Rutinas/Despedidas was published in 2018 by Sion Editorial in Guatemala. In 2015 she started keeping a blog for her writing: Tresnoventaytres.wordpress.com.

Six poems by Háel Lopez, translated by Ariel Francisco

Ariel Francisco and Háel Lopez

Complete Turn Your heart fell into a glass of beer I watched it drown while tracing the rim with my finger. The pieces fall on terrible rhymes of an endless poem but you don’t get up, don’t … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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