Today at Círculo de Poesía: a poem by Leonora Speyer (1872-1956), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1927. She was a poet and a violinist. Leonora Speyer was born in Washington D.C. in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her Fiddler’s Farewell (Knopf, 1926) Spanish versión by Roberto Amézquta Presentamos un poema de Leonora Speyer (1872-1956) Poeta…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Amy Lowell. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1926. Amy Lowell born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1874. She write poetry books as A Dome of Many Colored Glass (1912), Sword Blades and Poppy Seed or What’s A Clock (1925)[Pulitzer Prize]. Spanish versions by Adalberto García López Presentamos 3 poemas de Amy Lowell. Premio Pulitzer…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Poetry Pulitzer Prize 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay (Rockland, Maine, 1892). Poet and playwrighter. Three years before winning the Pulitzer she publishes A Few Figs from Thistles (1920), a volume of poetry which drew much attention for its controversial descriptions of female sexuality and feminism. In 1923 her fourth volume…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Two poems by Margaret Widdemer, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1919 (awarded ex aequo with Carl Sandburg). She was poet and novelist born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1884. She won with her collection of poetry: The Old Road to Paradise. The present Spanish versions by Violeta Orozco. El segundo Premio Pulitzer…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present three poems by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933). A lyrical poet, Teasdale centered her themes in her personal circumstance and in the perks of being a woman in the early Twentieth Century; her poems, which started as simple and musical lyrics, turned to darker themes in her later poetry, wherein…
Presentamos la poesía de Shirley Villalba (Coronel Oviedo, 1974). Poeta de Paraguay. Recientemente publicó el libro: Animal marcado (Arandurâ, 2015), trabajo de poemas y aforismos. Parte de su obra se encuentra en la antología La voz mediterránea. Participó del IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Poesía “Carlos Pellicer Cámara”, 2008. RETRATO SECO…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: poetry by Alison Hawthorne (1946). Winner of the Walt Whitman Award in 1993 for her book Science and Other Poems she has been praised for her precise language and elaborate metaphors. Spanish translations are by Esteban López Arciga (1994) Hoy en Círculo de Poesía: poesía de Alison Hawthorne (1946). Ganadora…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Elaine Terranova (1939), she is poet, academic and editor. She is currently teaching at Rutgers University, Camden, and at the Community College of Philadelphia. She deserved in 1990 the Walt Whitman Prize by her book The Cult of the Right Hand. Spanish version by Adalberto García López Presentamos la poesía…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: A poem by Martha Hollander, Walt Whitman Award 1989. The poem is based on Tempest, a work by italian Cinquecento painter Giorgione. Hollander was awarded for her book The Game of Statues (Atlantic Press. 1990). Spanish translation by Roberto Amézquita Presentamos un poema de Martha Hollander, ganadora del Walt Whitman…
Presentamos algunos poemas de Claudia Magliano (Montevideo, 1974). Es profesora de Literatura egresada del IPA. Ha publicado Nada, poemario premiado en el concurso de Poesía de la Asociación de Bancarios (AEBU) y la Casa de los Escritores del Uruguay, en 2005. Su segundo libro Res ha sido publicado por Ático Ediciones en diciembre de 2010 y obtuvo el…