Kymm Coveneyis judging this year’s New England Poetry Club’s Diana Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, for which she was awarded honorable mention in 2022. Her translations of poems from Ojeda’s collection Historia de la leche (Candaya, 2020) have been published by Poesía en acción #17, Poetry Northwest, LALT, and Georgia Review. The full collection will be published as History of Milk by Coffee House Press in 2026/27.
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[And Mama told me]And Mama told me:“I’ll have a broken daughterand I’ll comb her hair with all my teethI’ll show herhow hard it is to put on her shoesand wa…