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Jona Colson

JONA COLSON's poems, translations, and interviews have been published in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Chronicle and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the 2018 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. He teaches in Maryland and lives in Washington, DC.

2 Poems
by Miguel Avero, translated from the Spanish by Jona Colson

July 5, 2021 Contributed By: Jona Colson, Miguel Avero

Silhouette of a person under bare tree

Exemplary You glimpse a slight copy of liquid belly. Talk about the wind, breed waves on each page, breeding breezes on their veneers. You examine that other in the water-logged bookshelf. Give a meticulous detail of tears opting down very tense cheeks. But this one you pose in your hands (leaves fall apart like butterflies […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Translation Posted On: July 5, 2021

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