Today at Círculo de Poesía: Bill Bisset (1939) he is a Canadian poet. This is a poet who has been singled by his work through a unique spelling. Some of his books are Pomes for Yoshi, Th fifth sun, Venus, and others. The translation is by the poet and essayist Benjamín Valdivia (1960). Presentamos un…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Reginald Dwayne Betts (Washington, 1981) he is an American poet, memoirist and teacher. He wrote a piece of his work at jail. He deserved the Beatrice Hawley Award in 2010. He is author of A Question of Freedom: a Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2009),…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: The Beast [The american way of death] Poem by Daniel Rodriguez Moya (Granada, 1976) He is one of the most prominent new voices in Spanish poetry. The mexican writer and Cervantes Prize Jose Emilio Pacheco has defined him as “an example of a transatlantic poetry as not been seen for…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Three poems by Colombian poet, essayist and cultural promoter, Federico Díaz-Granados (Bogotá, 1974). He is one of the strongest voices in Latin American Poetry. He was published books as: Las voces del fuego (1995), Una oración americana (Jim Morrison poems in Spanish, 1998), Hospedaje de paso (2003) and Las horas…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Leonard Cohen. He was born in Montreal in 1934. Apart from being one of the most recognized singer-songwriters of his generation, he is the author of an extensive poetic career that precedes his musical work and contains books such as Flowers for Hitler (1964), Death of a Lady’s Man (1979)…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present a poem by Fernando Valverde (Granada, 1980), collected in Poetry Facing Uncertainty, an anthology, pubilshed in 14 countries, of poems from eleven Spanish language poets who hail from all over the Spanish-speaking world. Each poem has been translated into English by Gordon E. McNeer. In this occasion The…
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…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Irish poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director. In 1969 he deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his most famous books are Whoroscope (1930,) Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone dies (1951), Waiting for Godot (1952). We present his Cascando in both English and Spanish. Hoy en…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present two poems by Roberta Hill (1947). Known for her books Star Quilt (1984) and Philadelphia Flowers (1996), Hill encircles her Native American heritage using traditional English forms in her verse. Influenced deeply by her upbringing in the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she conveys the sense of exile and…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Brooklyn Bridge, by mexican poet Mario Bojórquez (Los Mochis, 1968). “Bojórquez has a strong and expanding reputation as one of his generation’s most valued poets. In 2007 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes, a major national prize [among many others]. I chose to work with his award-winning…