Five Poems

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Juan Carlos Galeano

Juan Carlos Galeano was born in 1958 in the Amazon region of Colombia. He has published Amazonia y otros poemas (2003) as well as Yakumama (and Other Mythical Beings) (2011), and has translated work by several US poets (such as Charles Simic) into Spanish. His poetry, inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world, has been published in Casa de las Américas, The Atlantic Monthly, and Ploughshares. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he teaches Latin American poetry and Amazonian cultures at Florida State University

James Kimbrell

James Kimbrell is a North American poet and translator whose work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and The Kenyon Review; he teaches at Florida State University

Rebecca Morgan

Rebecca Morgan's translations of Latin American and North American poetry have appeared in journals throughout the Americas; she also teaches at Florida State University