George B. Henson’s translations include Elena Poniatowska’s The Heart of the Artichoke and Sergio Pitol’s Trilogy of Memory. His translation of Pitol’s novel The Love Parade will be published in January by Deep Vellum. He currently teaches Spanish translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and is the recipient of a 2021–2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
Life and politics are the same on an empty plate, in a body plagued by a pandemic. But in Cuba, people are rising up and challenging the regime. Here, Cuban American poet Carlos Pintado traces th…