Today at Círculo de Poesía: Leonard Cohen. He was born in Montreal in 1934. Apart from being one of the most recognized singer-songwriters of his generation, he is the author of an extensive poetic career that precedes his musical work and contains books such as Flowers for Hitler (1964), Death of a Lady’s Man (1979)…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present a poem by Fernando Valverde (Granada, 1980), collected in Poetry Facing Uncertainty, an anthology, pubilshed in 14 countries, of poems from eleven Spanish language poets who hail from all over the Spanish-speaking world. Each poem has been translated into English by Gordon E. McNeer. In this occasion The…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Constantinople, 4 poems by Alí Calderón (Ciudad de México, 1982). He is a poet and a literary critic. In 2007 he received the Latin American Prize for Distinguished Poetry from America. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Ramón López National Prize for Poetry. Author of the poetry collections: Prime…
En estos días, Valparaíso Ediciones España publicó: Re-generación: Antología de poesía española (2000-2015). El libro reúne poemas de 24 poetas nacidos desde 1980 en una amplia selección del crítico José Luis Morante. Aquí todos los detalles: La regeneración también llega a la poesía de la mano de los nuevos poetas Una antología muestra la…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Irish poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director. In 1969 he deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his most famous books are Whoroscope (1930,) Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone dies (1951), Waiting for Godot (1952). We present his Cascando in both English and Spanish. Hoy en…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by Roberta Hill (1947). Known for her books Star Quilt (1984) and Philadelphia Flowers (1996), Hill encircles her Native American heritage using traditional English forms in her verse. Influenced deeply by her upbringing in the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she conveys the sense of exile and…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Brooklyn Bridge, by mexican poet Mario Bojórquez (Los Mochis, 1968). “Bojórquez has a strong and expanding reputation as one of his generation’s most valued poets. In 2007 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes, a major national prize [among many others]. I chose to work with his award-winning…
Este 6 de febrero, en el centenario luctuoso del príncipe de la poesía en español, presentamos el texto Historia de mis libros, en que Rubén Darío (1867-1916) hace un breve y puntal recorrido por algunos momentos de su propia obra. En él habla de Azul, Prosas profanas y Cantos de vida y esperanza. …
Este 6 de febrero, en el centenario luctuoso del príncipe de la poesía en español, presentamos algunos fragmentos de su autobiografía: La vida de Rubén Darío escrita por él mismo. «En fin, acatemos la voluntad suprema […] cosas caras a mi espíritu que impresionaron mis fibras de hombre y de poeta». Rubén Darío (1867-1916). …
Presentamos la poesía de Ángel Gustavo Rivas (Culiacán, Sinaloa, 1986) estudia la licenciatura en Letras Hispánicas en la UAM-Iztapalapa; creó y dirige desde 2015 las Tardes Literarias de la Honorable Casa Nacional del Estudiante, desde donde promueve la literatura y el diálogo en torno a ella; en la misma HCNE ha impartido diversos cursos sobre…