Yaxkin Melchy Ramos

Yaxkin Melchy is a Mexican poet, researcher, translator of Japanese poetry, and editor with Peruvian and Quechua heritage. He is currently part of the interdisciplinary group «Group for the Poetic Investigation of Mother Earth.» Together with Mónica Nepote, Yaxkin has edited the first Mexican ecopoetic anthology: Semillas de nuestra tierra [Seeds of our land] (Cactus del viento, 2023), and has published his ecopoetic reflections that walk-through Mexico, Peru, and Japan in diverse magazines and articles. His philosophical thought develops the relationships between poetry, the arts, the heart, and ecological thought. He has a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Tsukuba (2023). Yaxkin has won various poetry awards in Mexico and is the creator of renowned artisanal books. Among his latest published poetry books is Poetechnics (English translation by Ryan Greene, Cardboard House Press, 2023). MA graduate from the Asian and African Studies Program in El Colegio de México, his master's dissertation titled “How to Live on the Planet Earth: The Ecological Vision of Nanao Sakaki’s Poetry” is focused on the ecological vision in the poetry and life of the Japanese transnational poet, wanderer, and activist Nanao Sakaki. Since 2017, he has been translating contemporary Japanese poetry to Spanish. He runs the artisanal press “Cactus del Viento,” which focuses on ecological and spiritual poetics. He also publishes on his blog “Flor de Amaneceres.” https://flordeamaneceres.wordpress.com/