“Mi Palabra / Ti Jk’ope / My Word”
Note: This broadside is part of our annual translation special feature. Our Translations Editor, Ines Hernandez-Avila, selected two poems—both by poets writing in a language indigenous to the Americas. We are grateful for her time and vision for this annual feature. Of her choices and these broadsides, she has this to say: I dream of Indigenous peoples reading each other’s work with colonial languages acting as tools, not barriers. Translation, for me, as they would …