All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2011 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems of Elana Bell, her debut poetry book Eyes, Stone, received the Walt Whitman Award 2011. Bell has conducted poetry workshops for educators, women in prison, teenagers across the country. Spanish versions by Adalberto García…
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2010 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present a poem of Carl Adamshick (1969). He’s poet. His book, Curses and Wishes, was selected by Marvin Bell for the 2010 Walt Whitman Award. In 2012, the collection won the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry from…
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2009 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by J. Michael Martinez (Colorado, 1978). With a verse that creates a powerful tension between silence and negative speech, Martinez flirts with a discourse that at times resembles mysticism, dwelling unafraid into the…
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2008 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Jonathan Thirkield. Thirkield was born and raised in New York City, where he currently lives. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was a Truman Capote fellow in Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His 2008 collection The Waker’s…
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2007 Today at Círculo de Poesía: we present Sally Van Doren (St. Louis) She is a graduate of Phillips Academy and Princeton University and received an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Van Doren was awarded the 2007 Walt Whitman Award for…
All Walt Whitman Award at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2006 Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present the poetry of Anne Pierson Wiese. She is poet and graduated of the New York University at Writing Workshop. She has won some prizes through the years. In 2006, she won the Walt Whitman Prize…
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2005 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by the 2005 Walt Whitman Award winner Mary Rose O’Reilley (1944). Able to play with theological and environmental themes, her poetry becomes both profoundly emotional and yet bitingly ironic. Spanish translations are by…
All Walt Whitman Award at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2004 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Geri Doran. Born in 1966 in Montana, she has studies from Vassar College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Her book Resin was selected by poet Henri Cole for the Walt Whitman Awatd in 2004, because of what…
All Walt Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2003 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present a poem of Tony Tost (1975), poet, critic and screenwriter. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine Fascicle. Tost writes for the A&E television series Longmire. In 2003 he deserved the Walt…
All Walt Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2002 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by Suji Kwock Kim. The consciousness of the power and pain that comes with language is ever present in her discourse, where the barrier between body and word is often uncertain. Her work…