Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American author, editor, & translator. Her recent works include Relinquenda (Winner of the National Poetry Series, Beacon Press, 2022) & Matria (St Lawrence Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2017). She has recently published in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, AGNI, BOMB, Creative Nonfiction, World Literature Today, & her work has been anthologized in the Library of America’s Latino Poetry & The Best American Poetry. She is co-founding editor of Kalina Press in El Salvador (est. 2006), series translator of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, & associate editor at swwim.org

TRANSLATION

"My Place In The Horizon" and other poems

By JORGE GALáN

“the tremble
of insect colonies whose only presence is a sound.”