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About Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott’s translations of Colombian poetry have most recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Brooklyn Rail In Translation, Cigar City Poetry Review, Empty Mirror, Río Grande Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Waxwing, and World Literature Today.

Her book-length translation (with Barbara Jamison), The Dirty Text by Cuban poet Soleida Ríos, is forthcoming with Kenning Editions. She is a Ph.D. student and Olin Fellow in Hispanic Studies and Translation Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Task of Translation in tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and Katherine M. Hedeen: A review essay by Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott

Tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen / co•im•press / 978-0988819962 / paperback / 131 pages / 2016 Reading tasks begins at its edges: a seven-part … [Read more...]

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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Empty Mirror

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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