Martha Paz-Soldan, a Peruvian American writer from South Florida, earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, where she received the Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award. She lives in Ann Arbor.

Mestra as Translator

by Martha Paz-Soldan
after Ovid

The summer Victor died, his dad
spoke to no one but the canaries he kept
under his bathroom skylight.

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