California Silence Author|Leonard W. Levine You aren’t sure about the

You aren’t sure about the details because you don’t have all the facts and likely aren’t a scientist

The poems in I Weave a Nest of Foil unfold like a beautifully awry fairy tale populated by ghosts

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fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Artist Trust of Washington

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California Silence Author|Leonard W. Levine You aren’t sure about theCalifornia Silence was selected by Emily Wallis Hughes for the 2026 Ottoline Prize. An intricate tapestry of urban, natural, elemental, and linguistic worlds, California Silence by Stella Santamara maps a future beyond the fraught border of language politics between English and Spanish. "The poet said nothing, nada," yet Santamara invites us into a full and inclusive world, dissolving separation: the "Floricultura Pacific." In her transformative debut