Presentamos dos poemas de Vinod Kumar Shukla (Rajnandgaon, 1937). Poeta y narrador de la India. Escribe en Hindi. Ha publicado tres novelas y varios libros de poesía; el primero de ellos Lagbhag (1971). Su novela, Naukar Ki Kameez fue llevada al cine, con el mismo título. Actualmente es profesor asociado de la Indira Gandhi Agricultural…
El poeta griego Dimitris Angelís ofrecerá una lectura de poesía en la Universidad de Valencia. La presentación contará con los comentarios de Jaime Siles. La cita es el próximo 28 de abril a las 13:00 horas en la Sala de Mapes (Dept. Filologia Clàssica). Organitza: Aula de Poesia UV. Aquí un poema de Angelís, publicado en…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1988 Today at Círculo de Poesía: April Bernard. She was born in 1960, and was educated at Harvard University and holds a Ph.D from Yale. Her first book, Blackbird Bye Bye, was awarded the 1989 Walt Whitman Prize; she has published four more…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1987 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Judith Baumel (1956, Bronx, New York) is an American poet, author of two books of poetry: Now (1996) and The Weight of Numbers (1988), for which she won the Walt Whitman Award (1987), judged by Mona Van Duyn.…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1986 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Chris Llewellyn. She is a poet graduated from Warren Wilson College. She won in 1986 the Walt Whitman Award. Some of her books are: Valentines Praise, Mirror-Writing (2008), The Avian Muses (1990) and Fragments from the Fire: the…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1985 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Two poems by Christianne Balk (1953). Graduated with honors in biology from Grinnell College, her works have been featured in The New Yorker, Sonora Review, Crazy Horse, among other magazines. In 1985 she was awarded with the Walt…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1984 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Eric Pankey. He was born in Missouri in 1959, and received his BA from the University of Missouri at Columbia. His collection For the New Year was given the Walt Whitman Award in 1984. Currently, he is a…
Presentamos, en versión de Mijail Lamas, Vou-me embora pra Pasárgada, del poeta, traductor y crítico brasileño Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968), a 130 años de su nacimiento. Ahora me voy para Paságarda Ahora me voy para Paságarda Allá soy amigo del rey Allá tengo la mujer que quiera En la cama que elija…
Hoy, a 130 años del nacimiento del poeta, traductor y crítico brasileño Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968), presentamos Pneumotórax, leído por el propio Bandeira y seguido por el texto del poema y la traducción de Mario Bojórquez. Pneumotórax Febre, hemoptise, dispnéia e suores noturnos. A vida inteira que podia ter sido e que não foi.…
The Pulitzer Prize committee recently announced Peter Balakian (1951) as this year’s winner in the poetry category; today at Círculo de Poesía we celebrate his award with a brief selection from his winning book Ozone Journal. Balakian’s work often indulges in political themes in a way that is as unafraid of polemics as it is…