Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Translator Wendy Call appears in-person with the poets Mikeas Sánchez and Irma Pineda, appearing virtually, for a quadrilingual reading. The poets will read from their recently released collections, How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away the Riverwater, both of which were translated from Spanish into English by Wendy.
Mikeas Sánchez
Mikeas Sánchez is the author of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems. She is one of the most important poets of the Indigenous Americas, working in Zoque, a language spoken in southern Mexico.
Wendy Call
Wendy Call is co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and Best Literary Translations, author of the award-winning No Word for Welcome, and translator of two collections of poetry by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda.
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. Steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant.