News

Poema de una polis

31 July 2025

We’ve just published a Spanish translation of Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki’s The Poem Of A Polis over at kilo. Vasiliki is a Greek artist, writer and educator, whose work is well worth looking into. Check out her website here. She also runs an artist-in-residency in Athens, Greece called Yellow Brick. 

It’s been an honor working on this piece again, having previously edited it for The GOAT PoL. Many thanks to Andrés Porras Chaves for his careful proofreading. Spanish readers, find the translation on the kilo site, here. English readers, the original is available on The GOAT, here. 

Let me know your thoughts!

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IE Foundation Humanities Award

10 July 2025

I’m honored to have been awarded first prize in the IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities for the first part of my essay Reservoirs! It will be published in an upcoming book, details follow. The award ceremony will take place on October 8th at the IE Tower, P.º de la Castellana, 259, Fuencarral-El Pardo, 28046 Madrid. Let me know if you’ll be there, I hope to see you!

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Publishing
2025/07	Making Kin: Plants Translation for Cthulu Books (Madrid, ES).
2025/07	The Birds of Blanes Brief essay on a journey to Blanes (ES) with my son, Roberto Bolaño, seagulls and pigeons.
2025/06	In Proximity Of... Essay on Shadow Play, a video installation by artist duo Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum at Witte Rook(Breda, NL).
2025/05	Presence in the Age of Prediction Essay on cave paintings, conceptual art and LLMs; published at IE Insights(Madrid, ES).
2025/07	Compost Reader II Translation for Translation for Cthulu Books (Madrid, ES).
2025/07	Special Newsletter 3 Translation and translators notes for Shimmer (Rotterdam, NL)
2023/01	Bowl, Kom, Glow, Gloed, Vase, Vaas Three prose poems published by Short Pieces That Move, Rotterdam (NL).
2020/05	Refugee on Trial: The Hole in the Donut Essay published in the journal The Polity of Literature, which was the predecessor of The GOAT PoL (The Geographical Open Atlas of the Polity of Literature).
2019/06	Straight Roads and Other Ghosts An essay in response to the exhibition The Shyness of the Crowns by curator Beatriz Alonso in museum Frac Lorraine (Metz, FR).
2018/09	Almende Reader 2018 Edited the reader for Kunsthuis SYB
2018/03	Punk, Robitica en Banaliteit (Dutch) Review of Dickheads in Control by Guy Bar Amotz at RIB Rotterdam, published by Tubelight.
2017/07	Netwerk van Verstoringen (Dutch) Review of Chinese Whispers at Rianne Groen (Rotterdam, NL), published by Tubelight.
2016/06	Seashells That Look Like Petrified Ears Nine self published short stories, part of my MFA Thesis at the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, NL).