SWWIM Poetry: Chloe Martinez & Ximena Gómez

Join us for a poetry reading with Chloe Martinez and Ximena Gómez at The Betsy-South Beach Library. Hosted by SWWIM as part of an ongoing series.

ABOUT CHLOE MARTINEZ: Chloe Martinez is a poet, a translator, and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Agni and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College.

ABOUT Ximena Gómez: Ximena Gómez is a Colombian poet and translator, the author of Habitación con moscas and Cuando llegue la sequía (both by Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid), the bilingual poetry collection Último día / Last Day, as well as a joint collection with George Franklin, Conversaciones sobre agua / Conversations About Water (both by Katakana Editores). Her work has appeared in World Literature Today, Cagibi, Interim, Lunch Ticket, Círculo de Poesía, Nueva York Poetry Review, El Golem, and Hypermedia, among several others, and she has been included in various anthologies. She is the Spanish translator of Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson and Una para los Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (both by Penguin Random House) and George Franklin's poetry collection, Among the Ruins / Entre las ruinas, (Katakana Editores). She was a contributing translator of 32 Poems/32 Poemas by Hyam Plutzik (Suburbano Ediciones). In 2018 she was a finalist for the Best of the Net; in 2024 she was a finalist for the Gabo prize in translation, awarded by Lunch Ticket Magazine, and a finalist for the Paz Prize hosted by National Poetry Series. She is currently a translation editor for Cagibi.

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