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About Lucía Estrada

Lucía Estrada (Medellín, Colombia, 1980) is the prize-winning author of 10 books of poetry, including Las Hijas del Espino (2006), El Ojo de Circe (2007), La noche en el espejo (2010), and Cuaderno del ángel (2012). She recently won the Bogotá Poetry Prize for her forthcoming collectionKatábasis (2018). She has been invited to participate in many national and international literary events and, for several years, she helped to organize the groundbreaking Medellín International Poetry Festival. Estrada currently serves as the Cultural Coordinator at the Corporación Otraparte. Her work has been partially translated into English, French, Japanese, Italian, and German.

Poems by Lucía Estrada, translated by Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott and Lucía Estrada

Farandole by Julie Sargent

The poems here come from Las Hijas del Espino [Daughters of the Hawthorn], winner of the 2006 Medellín Poetry Prize. Estrada’s poetic subject travels across centuries to highlight in each poem an … [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.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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