International success...
One of the launch contributors and event co-presenters, poet Mariela Griffor, is guest editor for the forthcoming Poetry International, Issue 13-14, published by San Diego State University Press. This is such an exciting project, Ambassador just had to share the news.

The issue will feature Chilean Poetry that will translate, for the first time, new poems by Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Roberto Bolano, Enrique Lihn, Carmen Berenguer, and many more wonderful voices. Contributing translators include Mark Rudman,Carolyn Forche, David Young, D.H. Powell, Edward Hirsh, Jericho Brown, Katie Ford, Jim Schley, Alicia Ostriker, Patricia Fargnoli, Jane Mead, Tim Liardet, Gary Soto, Peter Campion, Derick Burleson, Mark Irwin, Ruth Joynton, and Jean Valentine.

Visit the Poetry International website here.

And thank you to Mariela for offering this sneak preview…

Prayer to a farm worker

by Victor Jara

Translated by Mariela Griffor



Rise up and look at the mountain, from

where the wind, the sun, the water come.

Thou, who determines the course of

rivers, thou who scatters the flight of

your soul.

Rise up and look at your hands. Join

hands with your brothers to grow, together

united in blood we go. Now is the time that

can be tomorrow.