El pasado 12 de junio, el mundo se conmocionó ante el asesinato de 49 personas en un club LGBTI en Orlando, Florida. En memoria de las víctimas presentamos un poema de una las sobrevivientes, Patience Carter, de veinte años de edad, Carter fue herida durante el tiroteo y experimentó la muerte de su prima Akyra…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Judy Jordan (1961), grew up on a small farm near the border between the Carolinas, was the first member of her family to attend college. Her first poetry collection, Carolina Ghost Woods (2000), was selected by James Tate to receive the 1999 Walt Whitman Award and won the National Book…
Presentamos, en versión del poeta y traductor nicaragüense Alain Pallais, textos de Lauren Camp. Es autora de tres poemarios: This Business of Wisdom (West End Press, 2010), The Dailiness (Edwin E. Smith, 2013) y el más reciente One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), con el que obtuv el Dorset Prize 2014. En su lista de premios…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Jan Heller Levi, she is poet. She teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. In 1998 she deserved the Walt Whitman Prize for her book Once I Gazed at You in Wonder. Spanish version by Adalberto García López Presentamos un texto de Jan Heller Levi, es poeta. Ella da…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present poetry by the Walt Whitman Award winner Barbara Ras (1949). Awarded in 1997 for her collection of poems Bite Every Sorrow , her work has been described as profoundly metaphysical in nature and prone to discerning spiritual insights. Spanish translations are by Esteban López Arciga (1994). Hoy en…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1996 Today at Círculo de poesía: Joshua Clover. He was born in 1962 in Bekeley and is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Among many other recognitions, he has received the Walt Whitman award in 1996 for his book Madonna…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1995 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Nicole Cooley, Walt Whitman Award 1995 for her first book of poetry, Resurrection (Louisiana State University Press, 1996). She is also the author of The Afflicted Girls (Louisiana State University Press, 2004) and Breach (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Spanish…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1994 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Jan Richman. She is a poet graduated from the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program. In 2001 she co-edited the literary journal 6,500. In 1994 she deserved the Walt Whitman Prize for her book Because the Brain Can Be…
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: Stephen Yenser. Born in Kansas in 1941, he is currently head of Creative Writing at the University of California in Los Angeles. He has won the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the B.F. Connors prize for Poetry and the Walt Whitman Award in 1993 for the book The Fire in All…