This is poetry from Colombia.
Day’s Fortune by Carlo Acevedo translated by Kelsi Vanada is published by Sundial House. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2025.0 and has the ISBN of 9.798990322417E12.
Carlo Acevedo’s Day’s Fortune, translated by Kelsi Vanada, has a title that suggests daily chance, weather, omen, and the small gamble of continuing. Fortune here might mean luck, fate, money, blessing, or the fragile allotment of light given to a single day. Vanada’s translation brings this Colombian poetry into English with room for that doubleness to breathe. I like titles that make the ordinary feel divinatory. A day is not just a unit of time. It is a field of risk and possibility, and the poem is one way of reading its signs. Day’s Fortune seems well suited for readers interested in contemporary Latin American poetry that attends to everyday life without treating it as plain. The book’s appeal is in that balance between modest scale and larger implication: the day opens, and something is at stake.
If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.
Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.
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