from “A Seam of Electricity”

Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor, living in New Orleans. He’s the author of Defensible Space/if a crow—, out now from Omnidawn, and A Seam of Electricity, from Ghost Proposal. Poems have been or will be published in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His translations of Latin American poetry have appeared in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Circumference, and Washington Square Review. In 2021, Cardboard House Press published his translation of Chilean poet Carlos Cociña’s Gardens, and soon, Carrion Bloom Books will publish his translation of a sequence by Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas. He edits mercury firs, an online journal of poetry and translation, is a contributing editor at Tilted House, and with fahima ife, co-edits the forthcoming chapbook press LUCIUS. For many years, he worked on farms in and around Olympia, WA, and forever thinks inside vegetables.