Across Languages, Cultures, and Poems: 

Poets Antonio Ochoa & Sara Deniz Akant 

Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He is the author of Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo (Nightboat, 2026), as well as two previous collections of poetry, pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima. He is the host of the podcast Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets.          

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Sara Deniz Akant is a poet, educator, and performer. She is the author of three books — most recently, Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022), which was a New York Times book of the year, a Boston Globe book of the year, and won the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry. She is also the author of Babette (Rescue Press 2015), winner of the Black Box Poetry Prize, and Parades (Omnidawn 2014), winner of the Chapbook Prize. She teaches poetry as a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University, and helps run the Kan Yama Kan reading series in Brooklyn. 

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