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Each spring, descendants of the Confederates who defected to Brazil at the close of the U.S. Civil War host a picnic in a graveyard of their forefathers in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, São Paulo with a motley crew of local dance moms, Freemasons and biker gangs. The Festa Confederada’s beating heart, its real crowd-pleaser, is an enactment of antebellum-era “folkloric” dances by men and boys in rebel uniforms and women and girls, some just babies, in frothy dresses that take months to sew. Increasingly, curious journalists, too, drive into the cane fields to query the festa’s Brazilian belles and local hawkers of Lynyrd Skynyrd covers, fried chicken and biscuits, and Confederate flag miscellany (keychains, flip-flops) available for purchase only with faux Confederate dollars. 

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Gorgeous photograph by Leonora Calderón from the set of Casa Particular by Gloria Camiruaga. 

Link to my translation: “The Night of the Minks (La Unidad Popular’s Last Fiesta)” + 2 más crónicas by Pedro Lemebel.

#pedrolemebel

#laslocas 

#santiago 

#casaparticular

#asymptote

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An interview I produced for Circumference: Poetry in Translation.

With poems and music by: John Cage, Sun Ra Arkestra (live in Rome 1980), Amelia Rosselli, and Jennifer Scappettone.

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Here's a podcast I produced for Circumference Magazine with translator Jennifer Hayashida. With poems and music by: First Aid Kit, Fredrik Nyberg, Eva Sjödin, Athena Farroukzad, Karl Larsson, & Säkert!

Source: circumferencemag.org

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238. Montana Ray: Mirroring

My essay on Ana Mendieta’s reverse ethnography of her art program, Intermedia at Iowa University was published as a Belladonna* chaplet. 

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Mom-poet interview <3 with the lovely Tiana for the New Inquiry. 

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Morgan, Ben, Monica

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Peace and happiness, Poetry Society, thank you. 

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Support BOMB, buy a copy of the summer issue to read Chronicles of Nueva York (El Bar Stonewall) by the brave and iconic writer and person, Pedro Lemebel, which I translated from the Chilanese. xxo.

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<<< Just In >>> #Acne “Daan” canvas and leather shoes (size 36 / $250 originally $550). Annd awesome book by local poet #MontanaRay, #gunsandbutter. ______________________________#brooklyn #clintonhill #shopping #daan #leather #maryjanes #shoes #fortgreene #ootd (at Su'juk

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Buy your copy right now. 

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Fun interview with Lodown (Berlin/UK)

(I think I'm the only woman in the magazine with my clothes on).

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Announcement: So I found out this week I'm in the new Gurlesque anthology.  Thank you, Arielle & Lara!

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My poem "(back to the future)" embroidered into a tiny gun pillow by Iviva Olenick. 

$300 dollars

contact Iviva Olenick for viewing or purchasing details.  

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My poem, "(una pistola) (bajo el vestido)," reinterpreted by Iviva Olenick on fabric dyed with strawberries. 

$300 dollars

contact Iviva Olenick for viewing or purchasing details.  

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My poem "(ay mi)" up and in progress at Torrance Shipman Gallery.

Poem and projection by Montana Ray

Painting by Amelie Ray

Curated by Maria Stabio for "Line up"