All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1985 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Two poems by Christianne Balk (1953). Graduated with honors in biology from Grinnell College, her works have been featured in The New Yorker, Sonora Review, Crazy Horse, among other magazines. In 1985 she was awarded with the Walt…
The Pulitzer Prize committee recently announced Peter Balakian (1951) as this year’s winner in the poetry category; today at Círculo de Poesía we celebrate his award with a brief selection from his winning book Ozone Journal. Balakian’s work often indulges in political themes in a way that is as unafraid of polemics as it is…
Recientemente la Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry anunció la lista de poetas finalistas para otorgar, como cada año, el prestigioso Griffin Poetry Prize. Presentamos una selección de todos los poetas finalistas de este año traducidos al español. Los poetas son: Norman Dubie, Joy Harjo, Don Paterson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Ulrikka S. Gernes, Liz Howard y Soraya Peerbaye. Cada…
Ocean Vuong (1988) es la sensación de la nueva poesía norteamericana. Ha llegado a decirse que su lenguaje poético renueva el inglés todo. Presentamos la conversación que hoy mismo, en el New Yorker, sostuvo con Daniel Wenger. Ocean Vuong es autor de los libros de poemas: Burnings (2010), No (2013) y Night Sky with Exit…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1981 Today at Círculo de Poesía we proudly share the work of Alberto Ríos (1952), Mexican-American poet winner of the prestigious Walt Whitman Award in 1981 for his collection Fool the Wind. Profoundly influenced by his Latin heritage, his poetry has been praised for…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1977 Today at Círculo de Poesía, as part of our celebration of the National Poetry Month 2016, we present two poems by the 1977 Walt Whitman Award winner Lauren Shakely (1948). Her book Guilty Bystander received praise for its spot-on portrayal of modern urban hysteria;…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Little Songs of Fury by Mexican poet and dramatist Abigael Bohórquez (1936-1995). A writer mostly forgotten by academics and the Latin American poetical canon, Bohórquez was a versatile poet capable of composing fluid formalistic writing and also a very original, melodic and even experimental free verse. His works also tend…
Presentamos una muestra de poesía de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, preparada por Mariel M. Damián (Ciudad de México, 1994). Está formada por poetas que actualmente estudian en la facultad. POESIA DE LA FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS “Cada poema es único. En cada obra…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present Journals against the Angel by the renowned poet Efraín Bartolomé (Ocosingo, Chiapas, 1950). Author of multiple books, Bartolomé has defined his poetry as one cohesive work in which the central theme is the “religious summoning of the Mother Goddess, which is Earth”. When asked on the bridges between…
Presentamos la entrevista que la poeta neozelandesa, Courtney Sina Meredith (1986) dio a Beatnik, donde conversó sobre su estancia en México, invitada al Encuentro Internacional de Poesía CDMX 2015 el pasado noviembre. Y sobre su poema Brown Girls in Bright Lipstick, incluido en la antología del encuentro: En el ombligo de la luna (Valparaíso-Círculo de Poesía, 2015).…