Jacqui Cornetta


recent work

Translation
“The Dream/
The Language of Fish”
poems by María Miranda
A Perfect Vacuum

Interview
“Forever Learning”
with Alexander Chee
Buds Digest 008

Translation
selected poems by
Martha Mega
Washington Square Review
Issue 49 

Essay
“The Year in
Medieval Erotics”
Hazlitt

Translation
“The Chicken’s Eggs”
by María Cristina Hall
The Offing
 
Poems
“Burn down the family tree”
Light Relief Series III
Lost & Found:
CUNY Poetics Documents
Initiative


Translation
Poems from
Version del Viaje
by Claudia Becerra
Words Without Borders

Interview
“Breaking Language Open”
with Xavier Navarro Aquino
Words Without Borders

Essay
“To Love a Language:
On Jhumpa Lahiri’s
Transformations”
Los Angeles
Review of Books

Samples & Loops
“Outsider Harping”
with Sonic Collective
splice sounds

Developmental Editor
Crisis Cities Series
National Magazine 
Award Nominated
Public Books


Literary Awards Judge
Pen America
Translation Prize 2021

Translation
“71”
by Magdalena Chocano
Circumference

Translation
“Postcard from Xalapa”
by Martha Mega
Volume

Poem
“A change of scenery”
Issue 24 - Borders
No, Dear Magazine

Translation Editor
Not in the Original
The Puerto Rico Review

Translation
Poems from “High Seas”
by Magdaleno Chocano
A Perfect Vacuum

Translation
“De Las Nubes” by Susan Fedynak
Installation presented by
Portátil, Chihuahua, Mexico 

Translation
The Adjustments
by Rojo Robles
The Puerto Rico Review

Co-translation, selection,
and introduction

Paul Blackburn & Julio Cortazar:
“Querido Pablito/Julíssimo Querido,” 
Selected Correspondence 1958-1971)

w/ Ammiel Alcalay,
Alexander Soria, and
Alison Macomber
Lost & Found:
CUNY Poetics Documents
Initiative


Interview
On Lost & Found
Words Without Borders

Short fiction
“one thirty fifty-five” for 
The Luminous Veil




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