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Chloe Garcia Roberts
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Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of a book of poetry, The Reveal, and her next book, Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology (both Noemi), is forthcoming in October, 2024. Her translations include Li Shangyin’s Derangements of My Contemporaries (New Directions), which was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and a collected poems of Li Shangyin (New York Review Books). She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA fellowship for her translation of The Holy Children, a novel by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis. She works as deputy editor of Harvard Review and teaches poetry at MIT.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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October 2, 2024
It is not a beautiful day in Mexico City unless you can see Popocatépetl. In this place, beauty is determined solely by whether or not the volcano breaches the nebulous smog like a visitation, by whether the eye can ascend its snow-covered face. When what was sensed but veiled yesterday is suddenly revealed today, it is, in the smallest way, a faith realized.
 
September 25, 2024
My eyes were already fixed on the face
Of My Lady, and my mind with them—
All other thoughts had been wiped away.

She wasn’t smiling; instead, she began:
“If I were smiling, you’d become
Like Semele when she was turned to ashes,
September 18, 2024
We were picnicking on the plains
when she emerged from the rushes.
She wore an apricot smock.
Her face was smeared with soot.
She said her name was Stina Groth.
A cloud of bats burst from the chimney
of a crumbling cottage behind her.
We asked her where home was.
She drew a circle in the silt with a twig.
The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents