Poetry By Zachary Payne

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 Zachary Payne is poet and translator who works as a Spanish and Applied Linguistics Professor on the island of Oahu.  He learned Spanish at the age of 19 and in this new language he regained his lost creativity and Spanish became the language of his poetic voice. He received his Ph.D. from the Complutense University in Madrid, in Spanish and Latin American Thought. Zachary is a member of the Editorial Collective for Caja de Resistencia (cajaderesistencia.cc) a contemporary online poetry journal that specializes in Critical or Dissident poetry. Poetically he has published poetry chapbooks in Spanish in Peru and Spain and has published two full collections of poems in Spanish, the most recent being Robos, Setas & Sombras (Huerga y Fierro, 2014) and was included in the anthology: Disidentes: antología de poetas críticos españoles 1990-2014. (La oveja roja, 2015). Zach continues to write in Spanish but on occasions will write in English. Termites: the illegal occupation of paradise with Prote(s)xt in Hesterglock Press is his first poetry collection written entirely in English.
Twitter: @arteenlazanja

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