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…
On January 12 of this very year, it was with great sadness that the world of American letters received the news of Carolyn D. Wright’s death, better known to her readers and students as C.D. Wright (1949-2016). Today at Círculo de Poesía we pay homage to her memory with a selection of five of her…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. In the recent edition of the Mexico City Poetry Festival (Encuentro Internacional de Poesía de la Ciudad de México). Círculo de Poesía and Valparaíso México Press published Paul Muldoon’s book: Almuerzo con Pancho Villa, poemas escogidos 1968-1998 in translation by Gustavo Osorio de Ita.…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present: Ithaca, a poem by Theo Dorgan (1953). Poet, editor and translator. «One of the great keepers of the Grail of Irish poetry in the current era…». Author of poetry books as: The ordinary house of love (1990), Rosa Mundi (1995) and Greek (2010)…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present a poem by Dennis O’Driscoll (1954-2012). Wes Davis said that “O’Driscoll has been called poet of the everyday, but his poetry finds its greatest intensity in the meeting of the ordinary with the marvelous and terrible anomalies that occasionally disrupt…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. In this occasion we present 3 poems by the Nobel Prize, W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): Who goes with Fergus?, Leda and the Swan, and one of the most commented Yeats works: The Second Coming. All translated by Sergio Eduardo Cruz Flores (1994). Hoy…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present a poem by Rita Ann Higgins (1955). Poet and Playwright. She has published books of poetry as: Goddess and Witch, 1990, Sunny Side Plucked, 1996, Throw in the Vowels:New & Selected Poems, 2005 and Ireland Is Changing Mother, 2011, among…
Today at Círculo de Poesía in a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier, we present a poem by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (1952). She writes in Gaelic and her work has been translated into English by Seamus Heany and Paul Muldoon among others. The present translation is by Flora Button-Burlá. We are in front of…