Forgotten Ground Regained
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Cintia Santana
Website: cintiasantana.com
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Cintia Santana teaches literary translation and poetry workshops in Spanish and English at Stanford University. Santana's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, and in numerous journals. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023), received the 2024 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal in Poetry, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver Medal in Poetry, and was short-listed for both the 2023 Golden Poppy Award in Poetry and the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry.
The Disordered Alphabet plays with alliterative themes -- carrying the same consonant through a poem from the first line to the last. It is a technical challenge that Santana rises to with imagination and verve. Three poems from The Disordered Alphabet are reprinted on this site:
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