Kristin Dykstra

Kristin Dykstra is a writer, literary translator, and professor. Her translations include books by Marcelo Morales, Juan Carlos Flores, Tina Escaja, and others. She is the principal English translator of Reina María Rodríguez’s The Winter Garden Photograph, which won the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Poetry The Filth issue

Olympic Newsvendors

By Reina María Rodríguez

“If you don’t have dollars, you don’t belong here, you don’t exist… There’s no place for you,” reply the clerks.

Photograph. Smoke billows out from homes in a crowded urban neighborhood.

Poetry The Filth issue

Something Other than Life

By Reina María Rodríguez

She peers through the slit in a shutter, and the horror rolls in: smoke floods privacy, smoke floods dream.

Poetry The Ecstasy issue

Fragments From “Silent Mechanisms”

By Marcelo Morales

“When he wakes in the morning, the words lose their meaning, because there are things that like the jellyfish hold meaning only in their element.”