Work in progress: A Robopoem@s photo essay

Botpieces by Tina Escaja. Photo K. Dykstra. Generator Makerspace, Nov. 2015. — Botpieces by Tina Escaja. Photo K. Dykstra. Generator Makerspace.

Tina Escaja working out the first phase of 3-D robot construction, including a wall display and augmented reality sequence, for the Robopoem@s / Robopoems. Photographed at Generator makerspace, Burlington, VT, in November 2015.

BotStruction by Tina Escaja. Photo KDykstra, 2015.

BotWalk with Tina Escaja. Photo KDykstra, 2015.

A mi semejanza. Tina Escaja. Photo by KDykstra 2015.

DisplayBot by Tina Escaja. Photo by KDykstra, 2015.

Augmented reality 1, T Escaja. Photo K Dykstra 2015.

Augmented reality 2, T Escaja. Photo K Dykstra 2015.

Augmented reality 3, T Escaja. Photo K Dykstra 2015.

Augmented reality 4, T Escaja. Photo K Dykstra 2015.

November 11, 2015

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This series tracks recognitions and convergences that give rise to bodies of work in translation. Emerging out of my time spent with Cuban poetry, as well as other writings from this hemisphere, most entries address some intersection between Latin America and the United States, and/or Spanish and English within the US. Some entries center on writers and works that motivate me to continue translating. Others loop outwards to envisage other translators & their translations, and test the frames mounted around translation.

Used with permission of Anna Deeny.
Photograph by Anna Deeny, 2015

Kristin Dykstra’s translations of poetry collections by Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Angel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales are published and forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press. She previously translated other books from Cuba, including works by Rodríguez and Omar Pérez, available in bilingual editions from Factory School, Green Integer and Shearsman Books. Dykstra is completing additional books by Pérez, Morales, and the Uruguayan writer Amanda Berenguer, among others. Parallel Editions and Red Hydra Press have published and forthcoming bilingual fine arts editions with her translations of poetry by Rodríguez and Rito Ramón Aroche. With Kent Johnson, Dykstra is co-editor of Materia Prima, an anthology dedicated to Berenguer forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. She co-edited Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas / Nueva escritura de las Américas from 2004-2014 with Gabriel Bernal Granados and Roberto Tejada. Dykstra lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.