Today at Círculo de Poesía: Little Songs of Fury by Mexican poet and dramatist Abigael Bohórquez (1936-1995). A writer mostly forgotten by academics and the Latin American poetical canon, Bohórquez was a versatile poet capable of composing fluid formalistic writing and also a very original, melodic and even experimental free verse. His works also tend…
Esta mañana fue anunciada por The Academy of American Poets, la ganadora del Walt Whitman Award 2016, Mai Der Vang (California, 1981). El manuscrito que fue elegido, Afterland, por la poeta norteamericana Carolyn Forché será publicado por el sello Graywolf Press en abril de 2017. Presentamos su poema: Light From a Burning Citadel en versión…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Iván Oñate (Ambato, Ecuador, 1948). Poet, short-story-writer and professor. He studied in Ecuador, Argentina and Spain; in this last country he made his P. h D. in Comunication in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He is a professor of Semiotics and Hispano-American Literature in the Universidad Central de Ecuador. He…
George Herbert, born in Wales in 1593 and deceased in 1633, is considered one of the revolutionary poets of the English tradition; he is, though, a much lesser-known poet in the Spanish language. Here we present three of his most remarkable poems in the translation of Sergio Eduardo Cruz (1994). George Herbert, nacido en Gales…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: “Ancient Fire” by Audomaro Hidalgo. He studied Hispano-American Literature at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina). He currently lives in Villahermosa, Mexico where he spends his days reading and writing. Translation by María Cristina Fernández Hall. Presentamos, en traducción al inglés de María Cristina Fernández Hall, un poema de Audomaro…
Mario Licón Cabrera (México, 1949) is the main spanish-speaking connoisseur of Australian poetry, and a recognized poet himself. A resident of Sydney since 1992, he has translated the most relevant poets from multiple different generations and aesthetics present in the tradition of that country: because of him we have translations of poets such as Dorothy…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: three poems by Hilda Conkling (Northampton, 1910-1986). She is famous because during her childhood, between four and ten years, she writes almost all her poems. The translations are by Adalberto García López. Presentamos tres poemas de Hilda Conkling (Northampton, 1910-1986). Es conocida entre otros hechos porque en su infancia, entre…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present a selection of works by the renowned poet Charles Simic (1938). One of the most important poets of our time, Simic is often described as a writer with a “strikingly original” style that is hard to classify. Born Dušan Simić, he spent his formative years in Europe during…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Wole Soyinka (Abeokuta, 1934) is an nigerian poet, essayist, playwriter and novelist. In 1989 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature and he became the first african writer to be honored with such distinction. The present Spanish versions are by Mario Bojórquez. Presentamos, en versión bilingüe, un poema de Wole…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Edwin Brock (Dulwich, 1927-1997). In addition to writing poetry he was police officer and a publicist. He was editor of the magazine Ambit. In 1990 he published his anthology Five Ways To Kill A Man: New and Selected Poems. The translation is by Antonio Cisneros. Presentamos un poema del poeta…