Marissa Davis is a poet and translator from Paducah, Kentucky, now residing in Brooklyn. Her poetry has appeared or will soon appear in Poem-A-Day, Nimrod, Great River Review, Southeast Review, Rattle, Mississippi Review, and Best New Poets, among others. Her translations are published or forthcoming in Mid-American Review, RHINO, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and The Common. Her chapbook, My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-Alai Books, 2020) was selected by Danez Smith for Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Prize. Davis holds an MFA in poetry from New York University.

TRANSLATION

from Côté Ciel

By STÉPHANIE FERRAT

Translated from French by Marissa Davis