Esteban López Arciga presenta su nuevo libro Nowhere Zen New Jersey, la cita es el próximo jueves 5 de abril a las 19:00 horas, en el Gimnasio de Arte y Cultura que se encuentra en Av. Álvaro Obregón 185, Roma Norte. Presentan Alí Calderón y Sergio Eduardo Cruz. A continuación dos poemas del libro. …
All Walt Whitman Awards at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2013 Today at Círculo de Poesía: two poems by Chris Hosea (1973). Winner of the Walt Whitman Award in 2013 for his collection Put Your Hands In, Hosea is described as one of the true descendants avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century,…
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 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 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…
All Walt Whitman Laurates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 2001 Today at Círculo de Poesía: poetry by John Canaday (1961) 2001 winner of the Walt Whitman Award for his book The Invisible World. He has PhD in English and teaches at Harvard Summer School, well acquainted with themes of science he has…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1994 Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by Ben Doller (1973). Mixing the quotidian with the prophetic, Doller’s poetry strikes its reader in its almost visceral interconnections between microcosm and macrocosm. With a rhythm that is both clerical and easy to…
Presentamos un poema de Saijo Yaso (1892-1970), poeta, compositor y académico japonés de inspiración simbolista. Educado en Francia, llegó incluso a entablar una amistad con Paul Valery, cuya influencia estética y psicológica permea el trabajo del japonés. Su poema “El infierno de Tomino” se volvió notorio en años recientes al ser la materia de una leyenda…
Presentamos, Por esto seguimos en pie, discurso del poeta chino Duo Duo al recibir el Premio Internacional Neustadt de Literatura en 2010. Duo Duo (1951) es el mayor poeta chino del presente. En él se reúne lo mejor de las distintas corrientes y escuelas de pensamiento poético chino desde la dinastía Shang hasta nuestros días,…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: we present a poem by Marya Zaturenska (1908-1982). Born in Ukraine and having migrated to the United States, Zaturenska was an outstanding student and later became one the important voices of the English Decadent school. A poet that almost appears anachronic, her writing dwells into metaphysical planes with ease, with…