Today at Círculo de Poesía: Two poems by Robert Frost (1874-1963) from Collected Poems, which received the Pulitzer Prize (1931). His work employed settings from rural life in New England and his command of American colloquial speech. Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. Frost was named Poet laureate…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, as part of our Pulitzer Prize dossier, we present poems by George Dillon (1906-1968). Nowadays a poet mostly remembered for being the lover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dillon was the editor of Poetry Magazine while serving in the Signal Corps during World War II, eventually announcing the freedom of…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present a poem by Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982). A modernist poet and member of the “Lost Generation”, he lived in Paris during the Thirties, where he met Ezra Pound, H.D., F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. Upon his return to America, he crafted a powerful poetry that stems from both his…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Conrad Akien (1889-1973) American poet and writer. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1930. He was the poetry consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952. He also won the National Book Award and the first edition of the Shelley Memorial Award, in 1929. Spanish translation by Adalberto García López En el marco…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, we present “Metropolitan Nigtmare”, a poem by American Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943). Known for his lengthy, meditative and humorous social pieces, he earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for his book John Brown’s Body, of which we present here a poem in translation by Sergio Eduardo Cruz. Hoy en Círculo…
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: Two poems by Robert Frost (1874-1963) from the Collection, New Hampshire: A Poem with notes and Grace notes, which received the Pulitzer Prize (1923). His work employed settings from rural life in New England and his command of American colloquial speech. Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four…
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, as part of our special Pulitzer Prize Dossier, we present a brief selection of works by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869).A poet who got “discovered” as an accident by President Theodore Roosevelt, he distinguished himself by a very strict adherence to formalistic verse, an effort that earned him the Pulitzer Prize…