Some months ago, Medium.com / the operating system interviewed José Vicente Anaya. Círculo de Poesía publish in Mexico that conversation. OS Collaborator José Vicente Anaya talks about his poem Híkuri (Peyote), recently translated by Joshua Pollock. JOSÉ VICENTE ANAYA (Villa Coronado, Chihuahua, 1947-Mexico City, 2020) is a Mexican poet, essayist, translator, editor, and journalist. He…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present “Shambles” by Mexican poet Baudelio Camarillo (Xicoténcatl, Mexico 1959). Camarillo composes a very calculated and harmonious free verse while appealing directly to senses and to easy metaphysics that invites readers to a serene search for the essence of things. Winner of the prestigious Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes,…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Selected Poems of Salvador Novo (1904-1974). A poet who changes the direction of Mexican poetry based on aesthetic approach, Pedro Henriquez Ureña took from American Poetry, “write like you talk”. The present selection comes from that anthology, compiled and translated by californian poet Anthony Seidman and David Shook, with an…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Five poems by Mijail Lamas (Culiacán, 1979) Poet, translator and literary critic. He is the senior editor of Rio Grande Review (University of Texas at El Paso). He has published the poetry collections: Contraverano (2007) and Trevas | Canción del navegante de sí mismo (2013), among others. He has been awarded with the…
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…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: “Ancient Fire” by Audomaro Hidalgo. He studied Hispano-American Literature at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina). He currently lives in Villahermosa, Mexico where he spends his days reading and writing. Translation by María Cristina Fernández Hall. Presentamos, en traducción al inglés de María Cristina Fernández Hall, un poema de Audomaro…
Mario Licón Cabrera (México, 1949) is the main spanish-speaking connoisseur of Australian poetry, and a recognized poet himself. A resident of Sydney since 1992, he has translated the most relevant poets from multiple different generations and aesthetics present in the tradition of that country: because of him we have translations of poets such as Dorothy…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Octavio Paz (1914-1998) is one of the most influential poets of the Spanish Tradition in the Twentieth Century; he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Here we present his poem “Hymn among the ruins,” translated into Spanish by the great American poet William Carlos Williams. Presentamos, en versión…
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…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Constantinople, 4 poems by Alí Calderón (Ciudad de México, 1982). He is a poet and a literary critic. In 2007 he received the Latin American Prize for Distinguished Poetry from America. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Ramón López National Prize for Poetry. Author of the poetry collections: Prime…