Today at Círculo de Poesía: a poem of Joe de Graft (1924-1978). Ghanaian poet, playwright and dramatist. He was a teacher for most of the young poets of his country. One of his most famous books is Sons and Daughters (Oxford University Press, 1963). The translation is made by David Anuar and Rodrigo Quijano. …
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…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Bill Bisset (1939) he is a Canadian poet. This is a poet who has been singled by his work through a unique spelling. Some of his books are Pomes for Yoshi, Th fifth sun, Venus, and others. The translation is by the poet and essayist Benjamín Valdivia (1960). Presentamos un…
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),…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: The Beast [The american way of death] Poem by Daniel Rodriguez Moya (Granada, 1976) He is one of the most prominent new voices in Spanish poetry. The mexican writer and Cervantes Prize Jose Emilio Pacheco has defined him as “an example of a transatlantic poetry as not been seen for…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Three poems by Colombian poet, essayist and cultural promoter, Federico Díaz-Granados (Bogotá, 1974). He is one of the strongest voices in Latin American Poetry. He was published books as: Las voces del fuego (1995), Una oración americana (Jim Morrison poems in Spanish, 1998), Hospedaje de paso (2003) and Las horas…
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…