Today at Círculo de Poesía: Two poems by Robert Frost (1874-1963) from the Collection, New Hampshire: A Poem with notes and Grace notes, which received the Pulitzer Prize (1923). His work employed settings from rural life in New England and his command of American colloquial speech. Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Poetry Pulitzer Prize 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay (Rockland, Maine, 1892). Poet and playwrighter. Three years before winning the Pulitzer she publishes A Few Figs from Thistles (1920), a volume of poetry which drew much attention for its controversial descriptions of female sexuality and feminism. In 1923 her fourth volume…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, as part of our special Pulitzer Prize Dossier, we present a brief selection of works by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869).A poet who got “discovered” as an accident by President Theodore Roosevelt, he distinguished himself by a very strict adherence to formalistic verse, an effort that earned him the Pulitzer Prize…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Two poems by Margaret Widdemer, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1919 (awarded ex aequo with Carl Sandburg). She was poet and novelist born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1884. She won with her collection of poetry: The Old Road to Paradise. The present Spanish versions by Violeta Orozco. El segundo Premio Pulitzer…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, as a part of our Pulitzer Prize Dossier, we present the poetry of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). One of the most influential American Poets, he was a Three-Time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most prolific writers of the Twentieth Century. His influence extends from poets of his own generation,…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present three poems by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933). A lyrical poet, Teasdale centered her themes in her personal circumstance and in the perks of being a woman in the early Twentieth Century; her poems, which started as simple and musical lyrics, turned to darker themes in her later poetry, wherein…
Presentamos un texto crítico sobre Desierto Rumor, libro de la poeta colombiana Andrea Cote, recientemente publicado en Ecuador por El Ángel Editor. La reseña corre a carga de Juan Suárez y viene seguida por una breve selección de poemas del libro. Desierto Rumor: las semillas de lo calcinado…
Presentamos el ensayo, Rubén Darío no debe ni puede morir, del músico, narrador y ensaysita nicaragüense Roberto Carlos Pérez (Granada, 1976). A mi guía y mentora Amelia Mondragón Rubén Darío no debe ni puede morir Rubén Darío y su época Para valorar el salto que dieron…
Presentamos la poesía de Shirley Villalba (Coronel Oviedo, 1974). Poeta de Paraguay. Recientemente publicó el libro: Animal marcado (Arandurâ, 2015), trabajo de poemas y aforismos. Parte de su obra se encuentra en la antología La voz mediterránea. Participó del IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Poesía “Carlos Pellicer Cámara”, 2008. RETRATO SECO…