Join via Zoom on Wednesday, December 6 at 2 pm CT for a multilingual conversation and reading with Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, and translators Wendy Call and Shook, the creative team behind How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems. Hosted by Awardee Arthur Malcolm Dixon.
LALTulsa is a reading and conversation series with the translators and authors who bring Latin American literature to life in English, hosted by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Tulsa Artist Fellow and Managing Editor of Latin American Literature Today.
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.
Shook
Shook is a poet, translator, and editor whose work has spanned a wide range of languages and places.
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.