CARLOS ALCORTA (Spain) has published collections of poetry that include: Lusitania; Cuestiones personales (Premio Alegría/José Hierro); Trama (Accésit Premio Ciudad de Salamanca); Corriente subterránea (Premio Hermanos Argensola); Sutura ; Sol de resurrección (Permio José Luis Hidalgo and Finalist of the National Poetry Prize); Ejes cardinales, Poemas escogidos ; Ahora es la noche; Aflicción y equilibrio: Fotosíntesis; and Acto de presencia: Collected Poetry 1986-2020. His prose works include Vistas y panoramas; Casa sin puertas, Opiniones y reseñas sobre poesía cántabra contemporánea; El hilo más firme (translated with DeepL.com [free version]).
DIANE ALTERS is a college lecturer, former journalist, and student of poetry at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Calyx, Crosswinds, Naugatuck River Review, The New York Quarterly, Pilgrimage, the anthology An Uncertain Age, and Short Fuse Podcast #58. She wrote the chapbook Breath, Suspended.
LOLA ANDRÉS (Spain) holds a degree in philology. She has received awards including the Alfons el Magnànim de Poesía in Valencia and the Gerardo Diego of the Provincial Council of Soria. Andrés has published numerous collections of poetry: Moléculas y astros, Jocs de llum, Materia, Cielo líquido, Travesía (the third edition with the painter Pere Salinas), de Uno, and Llámala (in press), and the poetry packets Pendiente del aire (with Eva Hiernaux), Poemas (with the painters Carolina Ferrer and Encarna Sepúlveda), cómo/sucede, Brecha, and Ho(yo) de hueso. She has translated poets such as Joan Navarro (from Catalan into Spanish), Teresa Pascual, Jaume Pérez Montaner, Begonya Pozo, and Josep Checa. Andrés has also translated from German to Catalan (in collaboration with Anacleto Ferrer) the poetry of Hannah Arendt and Màtria by Rose Ausländer. Her poems have appeared in various national and international publications and anthologies. Andrés has participated in interdisciplinary projects in poetry, music, dance, and painting, and currently directs the Marte poetry collection at Contrabando publishing.
RILLA ASKEW is the author of five novels, a book of stories, and a collection of creative nonfiction. She’s received the American Book Award, Western Heritage Award, Oklahoma Book Award, and the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her essays, poems, and short fiction have appeared in Nimrod, Tin House, World Literature Today, AGNI, and elsewhere. A new collection of stories, The Hungry & The Haunted, will be published by Belle Point Press in Fall 2024.
HANS AUGUSTAVE is a Haitian-American filmmaker living through his various creative expressions with the intent to heal. His journey has taken him from the art of spoken word, to the stage and now to the screen with his short films Nwa (Black), Before I Knew (Best Short Short – Harlem International Film Festival) and I Held Him (Urbanworld, Brooklyn Film Festival). Hans is also the producer of documentary The Forgotten Occupation (Outstanding Feature Documentary, Audience Choice – Art of Brooklyn Film Festival), which examines the United States’ occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934 and its negative impacts on Haiti’s current politics. https://www.hansaugustave.com/
AMARYLIS BETANCOURT is a photographer living in New York City, originally from Puerto Rico. When she retired from her administrative work, she took up photography more seriously. In the four years since retiring, she has traveled many times to Africa and Pantanal, South America and has won awards from Camelback Gallery and Gallery 4 Percent.
JOSÉ MARÍA CASTRILLÓN (Spain) holds a doctorate in Hispanic philology from the University of Oviedo. He has published the poetic works La sonrisa de un delfín, Animal de compañía, Aún por recorrer, La vieja munición, El círculo y la Piedra, Gramos, and Formas de saber que sigues vivo: Antología, 1991-2020. He is the author of Subir al origen. Antología comentada de la poesía occidental no hispánica 1800-1944. He belonged to the editorial board of the literary collection Nómadas and the magazine Solaria. As a teacher and literary critic, he is the author of manuals for secondary education and has published studies on Antonio Gamoneda and José Manuel Arango among other contemporary poets.
ROCÎO CERÓN is a writer, poet, essayist and editor. She has been editorial coordinator of Trilce Ediciones, Cubo Editorial; since 2004 she has also been editor-in-chief of Ediciones El Billar de Lucrecia. Cerón founded Motín Poeta, a collective of interdisciplinary artistic projects. She was a scholarship recipient of the FONCA Young Creators program. She won the Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize in 2000. Cerón has been anthologized in various publications. She has also published Imperio/empire; Tiento, Diorama, and Nudo vortex, among other collections. She has received the See America Writers Award and the Best Translated Book Award in the United States.
BRIAN CULLMAN is a musician and writer who lives in New York and France. His forthcoming book, Things Behind the Sun will be published by Coffee House Press.
SONIA CHOCRÓN (Venezuela) is a poet, novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She is related to the Venezuelan dramatist Isaac Chocrón. She completed her Social Communication degree at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, then entered the workshop in poetry of the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies. Chocrôn was selected to participate in the workshop “The Argument of Fiction” taught by Gabriel García Márquez at the School of Cinema in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She was invited by the Nobel Prize Academy to found the Gabriel García Márquez Cinematographic Bureau. Chocrón’s literary work, as well as her scripts for film and television, have won prizes and accolades at the regional and international level. Her literary works have been published in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Among her many books of poetry and prose are Carnet de identidad, Hermana pequeña, Bruxa/toledana, and La dama oscura.
JORDI DOCE (Spain) has a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Sheffield with a thesis on the influence of English romanticism on contemporary Spanish poetry, the basis of his essay “Imán y desafío” (Premio de Ensayo Casa de América, Península). Among his collections of poems, Nada se pierde stands out; other works include Poemas escogidos, No estábamos alli, and Maestro de distancias. These last two were chosen as the best poetry books of their years by El Cultural magazine. Doce’s books have been translated into English, Italian, German, Romanian, and Arabic. In prose he has published the books of notes and aphorisms Hormigas blancas, Perros en la playa, and Todo esto será tuyo, as well as volumes of articles and essays. He has translated the poetry of W.H. Auden, Paul Auster, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Anne Carson, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Charles Simic and W. B. Yeats, among others.
GOYA GUTIÉRREZ (Spain) is a poet and prose writer. She earned her degree in Hispanic philology from the Central University of Barcelona. She is co-editor and director of the literary magazine Alga, available in print and digital formats. Gutiérrez is a member of the Asociación Colegial de Escritores de Cataluña. As an artist who transmits culture, she coodinated a series of poetry readings and gatherings in Barcelona over a three-year period. She has published the poetry pamphlets Regresar and Desde la oscuridad/From the darkness; the poetry collections De mares y espumas, La mano en el cajón, La mirada y el viaje, El cantar de las amantes, Ánforas, Hacia lo abierto, Grietas de luz, Y a pesar de la niebla, Lugares que amar, and Pozo pródigo; and the novel Seres circulares. Find her at https://www.goya-gutierrez-lanero.com/.
BILL HAYWARD is an eminent imagemaker in several media, and a director of Noon magazine. His first feature film, Asphalt, Muscle & Bone garnered prizes including Best Director at several international film festivals. Hayward’s publications include, Cat People, Doubleday, 1978; Bill Hayward, Paglia Press, 1989; Bad Behavior, 2000, Rizzoli, and Chasing Dragons, Gliteratti, 2015. Hayward’s second feature film Beauty Is No Show – Designing The Dead will be released later this year.
DAVID HUTTO has work forthcoming in Mudfish, and his work has recently appeared in The Galway Review, Paterson Literary Review, Defenestration, and Fjords Review, as well as in Crazyhorse, Fiction International, and other magazines. His experience as a writer includes a writers retreat in Mérida, Mexico in 2024, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2003, two invitations as a featured poet at the Callanwolde Arts Center in Atlanta, and first-place poetry awards from state-wide contests in Alabama and Georgia. www.davidhutto.com
SANDRA LORENZANO (Aregentina, Mexico) is a storyteller, poet, and essayist. She earned her undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She is the author of Saudades, La estirpe del silencio, and El día que no fue.
LUCAS MARGARIT (Argentina) is a poet, translator, and academic. He is currently a professor of English literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In addition to his numerous publications on Beckett, he has written extensively on poetry and poetics in the modern period. He is an editor of the magazine Beckettiana, which is the only academic magazine in Spanish dedicated to the life and work of Samuel Beckett. His most recent book of essays is El monólogo mudo, focused on the work of Samuel Beckett. As a poet, he has published Círculos y piedras, Lazlo y Alvis, El libro de los elementos, Bernat Metge, elis o teoría de la distancia, Telesio: brevissimo tratado sobre el asombro, and Vestigios de lo que se puede. His poems were translated into Catalan, Italian, English, Portuguese, and currently Norwegian. He has translated and edited works by William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Margaret Cavendish, Henry Neville, W. H. Auden, etc. Lucas is a member of the Samuel Beckett Society.
MICHAEL KEVIN MCMAHON writes short fiction and narrative essays. After a career in corporate consulting focused on learning in large, highly distributed human/technical systems, he retired to the Finger Lakes region of Central New York, where he spends his time writing and helping his aging dog chase geese. As a writer, he works with narrative – whether genre’d as travel, journalist observation or fiction – focused on human development and learning in precisely realized social contexts. He has an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Adult Education and Instructional Technology from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work has appeared in Cable Street and is forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre.
TOBIAS MEINECKE is an award-winning film director and founder of the creative media company Love Child. He is one of twelve great-grandchildren of early 20th century Berlin publishing legend Hermann Klemm. Along with Eric Darton, he is the author of a semi-ficionalized account of Klemm’s life and times, the opening section of which appears in this issue. In his youth he published Comic Art, a critical magazine dedicated to the emergence of the graphic novel. Currently, in addition to numerous film and television projects, Meinecke is working on his first collection of short fiction.
LAUREN MENDINUETA (Columbia) is a poet, essayist, translator and university professor. Her books have been published in several countries, and translated into six languages. In Colombia she won three national poetry awards, the Medellin Poetry Festival Award, and the National Essay and Art Criticism Award from the Ministry of Culture. In addition, she won the Martín García Ramos international awards in Spain for La vocación suspendida and the César Simón Award for Del tiempo, un paso. She currently lives in Lisbon, where, in addition to her writing, she translates poetry and does that labor-intensive work of developing and disseminating Spanish-American poetry in Portugal and Portuguese poetry in Latin America.
VICENTE LUIS MORA (Spain) is a writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic. He has received multiple prizes for his literary work, and contributes to journals that include: Animal sospechoso, Archipiélago, Clarín, El anillo invisible, Mercurio and Quimera, as well as the supplement, Cuadernos del Sur con Diario Córdoba. He co-directs the essay collection at Berenice Editorial. He also organizes the Mapa Poético, a cultural event celebrated annually in Córdoba, Spain. Among his many books across genres are the poetry collections Nova and Construcción, the storycollections Circular and Subterráneos, and the essay collection, Singularidades: ética y poética de la literatura española actual. His prose and poetry are also included in numerous anthologies.
VAGHAWAN OJHA lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, He has studied English literature and mathematics, and loves both arts and sciences almost equally. Apart from reading vast amounts of literature, Ojha is also pursuing a PhD in Computational Engineering and Mathematics at Mississippi State University. Some of his works have made their way to indie journals, and have appeared in Porch Lit, Periwinkle Pelican, and Coalition for Digital Arts.
MARÍA ÁNGELES PERÉZ LÓPEZ (Spain) is a poet, editor, professor and researcher. She is a full professor of Hispanic-American literature at the University of Salamanca. She was a visiting professor at James Madison University and the University of Washington, and is a corresponding member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. Her work is widely anthologized, and she is the author of many books and chapbooks, including Atavío y puñal and Mapas de la imaginación del pájaro.
MERCEDES ROFFÉ (Argentina) is an internationally recognized voice in Argentine poetry. Her books have been published in multiple Latin American countries and, in translation, in Italy, England, Quebec, Brazil, France, Romania, Lebanon, and the United States. She has also published two books of micro-essays: Glosa continua (2018) y Prosasfugaces (2022). Since 1998, Roffé has directed the Ediciones Pen Press imprint, dedicated to publishing booklets and sheets of contemporary Latin American poetry and poetry translated into Spanish. Among other distinctions, she lifetime achievement awards from Casa Bukowski Internacional (2021) and Dámaso Alonso, as well as John Simon-Guggenheim and Civitella Ranieri grants. She lives in New York and Buenos Aires. Find her at https://www.mercedesroffe.com.
IAN C. SMITH is a writer whose work has been published in BBC Radio 4 Sounds, The Dalhousie Review, Gargoyle, Griffith Review, Honest Ulsterman, Southword, Stand, and The Stony Thursday Book. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, published by Ginninderra, Port Adelaide. He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia and on Flinders Island. This is his third appearance in Cable Street.
EVA VEIGA (Galicia, Spain) is a journalist, actress, scriptwriter, and poet. She has published 12 books of poetry, among them: A distancia do tambor (awarded the Premio Fiz Vergara Vilariño and Premio Poesía AELG), Soño e vértice (winner of the Premio Poesía Concello de Carral and the Premio de la Crítica española), Silencio percutido (awarded the Premio Poesía Cidade de Ourense) and Quérote canto, written with Baldo Ramos (winner of the Premio Losada Diéguez for literary work).
MELANIE WELDON-SOISET has published poetry in Clerestory, Sunlight Press, Tipton Poetry Journal, and others. Melanie is a #ChurchToo survivor, Poetry Editor at Geez Magazine, and former pastor for foreigners in Shanghai. She is a student in the MFA program at Spalding University. Find her in real life biking on DC greenways. Join her poetry and prayer missive at melanieweldonsoiset.com and find her on Instagram @MelanieWelSoi).
CABLE STREET EDITORS
ERIC DARTON is the author of Free City, a novel, first published in 1996 by WW. Norton and recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press, and the New York Times bestseller Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). Other of his writings may be found at bookoftheworldcourant.net, ericdarton.net, and tupeloquarterly.com. Darton is a partner in Love Child, a Berlin-based content developer for film, television, print and online media. He co-wrote, co-produced, and appears in Bill Hayward’s award-winning feature films Asphalt, Muscle & Bone (2019) and Beauty Is No Show – Designing the Dead (forthcoming in 2024). He teaches college-level literature, writing, and urban studies, and leads Writing at the Crossroads, an ongoing interdisciplinary prose workshop. Darton is an Internal Arts International-certified instructor in foundational Ba Gua Zhang.
DANA DELIBOVI is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her new book of translations and essays—Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila—will be published by Monkfish Book Publishing in October 2024. Her work has appeared in After the Art, Apple Valley Review, Bluestem, Cathexis, Confluence, Ezra Translations, Moria, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Presence, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander, and many other journals. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2020 Best American Essays notable essayist, and a 2023 winner of the Hueston Woods haiku contest. Delibovi’s poems traveled the St. Louis Metro as part of the Poetry in Motion Series sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. She posts at X(Twitter), Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, and https://sweethunter.org/.
HARDY GRIFFIN is a writer and translator whose novel, Broken Kismet won the Eyelands Book Awards grand prize and has been published in Greek from Strange Days Press. He has published writing in Fresh.ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury). His translations can be found in Words Without Borders, The Istanbul Biennial, and for the award-winning EU-sponsored study Ermeniler, which documents the lives of Armenians living in contemporary Turkey. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Novel Slices, dedicated solely to the publication of novel excerpts of all genres.
BRONWYN MILLS is the author of Beastly’s Tale (a novel) and Night of the Luna Moths (poetry); her education, an MFA from UMass, Amherst, a Ph.D. from NYU. Mentored by James Tate, Samuel Delany, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o she was an Anais Nin Fellow and Fulbright Fellow (La République du Bénin, West Africa) she has lived in Paris, France, New York City, Istanbul, Turkey; Cotonou, Bénin, and Latin America and taught Caribbean literature, African literature, and writing in Istanbul, Bénin, and just outside New York City. Formerly a dance and theatre writer in New England, Bronwyn is a founding co-editor for Cable Street and a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Guest-editor for the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19), her current projects include By the Spoonmaker’s Tomb, a collection of vignettes from her time in Istanbul and the newly finished Canary Club, a novel set in medieval Spain. Most recently, Agni Online has published an excerpt from Spoonmaker. She has also published work on African vodou. More of her work can be found at bronwynmills.org/. Bronwyn now lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away.
CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO, whose memoir we continue to serialize, is the author of more than two dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles, E.E. Cummings, and a group portrait of American writers in Paris 1944-1960, The Continual Pilgrimage. For Cable Street (formerly Witty Partition), he translated Salvador Dalí’s prose poem, “San Sebastien,” and several other works. Book translations include work by Paul Eluard, Rafael Alberti, Panaït Istrati, García Lorca, Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautreamont as well as the Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. The inaugural issue of Wet Cement Magazine has new work by the author: www.wetcementpress.com/wcpmag. Night Suite, his newest book of poems, was just published by Talisman House. Other books include, Dix méditations sur quelques mots d’Antonin Artaud, translated by Patricia Pruitt (Paris: Alyscamps, 2018), Remission (Talisman House, 2016), and Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany (Talisman House, 2014). He has written librettos for Thomas Adès (America: A Prophecy Part I), Faber Music/Warner Classics CD, 2011, and for Andrey Kasparaov (Lorca: An Operatic Cycle in Five Acts. Alyscamps, 2022). Until retiring he taught writing at MIT for over a quarter-century. He lives in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Many of his books are on Amazon and Bookshop.org.
JAN SCHMIDT has recently had her short story “Pandora” published as finalist in Solstice Fiction Prize in 2023 summer issue. Litro Magazine published “EX-TING-GWISH-ER” online November 9, 2023. Calyx will publish “Returns Department” in their upcoming issue. Other fiction writing appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story, IKON and New York Stories. Her short story collection “Everything I Need” was a finalist for the Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts, 2019. Her unpublished novel “Sunlight Underground” was a finalist for the Novel Slices Award, 2021. Till 2015, she held the position of Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Some of her published writing can be seen on her website http://contactprod.com/janschmidt/
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