All Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1979 Today at Círculo de Poesía, as part of our celebration of the National Poetry Month 2016, we present: David Bottoms (Georgia, 1949), he is poet and academic. In 1979 he won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his…
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: 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: 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 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…