Francisco Aragón

By Daniel Chacón,

Will Rose

Published October 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM MDT

Host Daniel Chacón talks with poet and translator Francisco Aragón about Handbook of Foams, the first full English translation of Gerardo Diego’s 1922 avant-garde classic. Diego belonged to Spain’s Generation of ‘27 alongside Lorca and shared the 1979 Cervantes Prize with Borges. Aragón discusses the book’s music, Diego’s friendship with Juan Gris, and the decades-long journey from a master’s thesis in Madrid to publication. He reads several poems, alternating between Spanish and English.

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Originally aired on October 24, 2026

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Daniel Chacón

Daniel Chacón’s collection of stories, Unending Rooms, was the 2007 winner of the Hudson Prize. He has also been awarded the American Book Award, the Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, and the Southwest Book Award. His first collection of stories, Chicano Chicanery was a finalist in the Patterson Fiction Prize and his novel and the shadows took him is available from Simon and Schuster. His new book is a collection of stories called Hotel Júarez: Stories, Rooms and Loops. He’s a professor of Fiction Writing, Kafka, and Latino/a literature in the Creative Writing Department at UTEP.

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Will Rose

Will Rose is a longtime technology and marketing executive based out of NYC and Texas. He is the co-founder of Words on a Wire’s publishing imprint, eRadical Books, and now spearheads marketing strategy for the Words on a Wire podcast. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer at the EdTech startup, Student Select, and as Head of Data Science at the artificial intelligence company, Harqen AI.

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