Today at Círculo de Poesía: Carol Ann Duffy (Glasgow, 1955), for her poetry she has deserved the Eric Gregory Award, the Scottish Arts Council Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and in 2005 the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is the poet of the English court since 2009. Spanish version by Edgar Amador (Coahuila, 1967)…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Sujata Bhatt (Ahmedabad, 1956), indian poet. Some of his books are Brunizem (1988), Monkey Shadows (1991), Augatora (2000), The Colour of Solitude (2002) and Pure Lizard (2008). She deserved the Poetry Book Society and in 2014 the Premio Internacional de Poesía Nuevo Siglo de Oro, which is granted by the…
La poeta Biancamaria Frabotta (Roma, 1946), nos regala una pequeña selección de sus poemas que han sido publicados en la Antología bilingüe Caminos del agua, poetas italianos del segundo Novecientos (traducción de Erika Reginato, Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, Venezuela, 2008). La elección de sus poemas en esta Antología ha sido producto de una investigación y…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Reginald Dwayne Betts (Washington, 1981) he is an American poet, memoirist and teacher. He wrote a piece of his work at jail. He deserved the Beatrice Hawley Award in 2010. He is author of A Question of Freedom: a Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2009),…
En una nueva entrega de Poesía permutante presentamos: El dinero de los poetas, de Lêdo Ivo (1924-2012). Poeta brasileño cuyo primer libro: As imaginações, apareció en 1944, y desde entonces su producción abarca más de 18 títulos. Su obra ha recibido los más prestigiosos reconocimientos, como el Premio Mario de Andrade en 1982. El poema se publicó originalmente…
Presentamos, en versión del poeta y traductor argentino Juan Arabia, el poema “Segunda salutación” de Ezra Pound. Pocos escritores han ejercido mayor influencia en la poesía en español como Pound. En palabras de Juan Arabia, este texto “fue uno de los poemas censurados por Elkin Matthews. Le pidió al autor que eliminara del poema numerosos…
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…
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…