Olivia Lott

Variantes

🎉 Welcome to the inaugural issue of Variantes! 🌟 We're a graduate student-run literary and fine arts magazine from Yale's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 🌍✨

Enjoy our first selections and stay tuned for more! 📚👀

creativeforum.yale.edu/variantes/

This book = the overlap in mine and @tessrenker.bsky.social’s dissertations

Musab Younis · The Mouth of Calamities: Césaire’s Reversals Aimé Césaire can seem to be caught between worlds. For the politically minded, he is suspiciously literary and obscure...

Would you look at that. Got reviewed in the LARB. "Gil’s superb translation adds a formidable new work to Césaire’s corpus"... sup-erb.

Hi 👋🏼

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Not all conversations worth having are happening in English.

—Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

Complete CFP and submission link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CFP for “Entre lugares”, the Conference organized by the Grad Students at Yale’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese!

We are really excited to welcome you to New Haven and get to know about your work. Please share widely! 💛

Echenle un ojo a esta reseña mía del nuevo libro de Ethel Barja—Poesía e insurrección: la Revolución cubana en el imaginario latinoamericano (2023)—publicada en Chasqui. chasquirll.org/wp-content/u...

uff a true nightmare

Congrats!!

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1.) Neo-avant-garde poetics during the Latin American long sixties

2.) Poetry and Google Translate

I didn’t realize you’re from Minnesota, Brad. Me too!

let's do it!

exciting! let's do a long 60s panel sometime!