All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1988 Today at Círculo de Poesía: April Bernard. She was born in 1960, and was educated at Harvard University and holds a Ph.D from Yale. Her first book, Blackbird Bye Bye, was awarded the 1989 Walt Whitman Prize; she has published four more…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1984 Today at Círculo de Poesía: Eric Pankey. He was born in Missouri in 1959, and received his BA from the University of Missouri at Columbia. His collection For the New Year was given the Walt Whitman Award in 1984. Currently, he is a…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Alexis Díaz-Pimienta (La Habana, Cuba, 1966). Writer and improviser. He is the director of the “Cátedra Experimental de Poesía Improvisada de la Universidad de las Artes, de La Habana, Cuba.” His poetry and prose has been translated to Italian, French, English, Japanese, Bulgarian, and German, among others. He has won…
Recientemente la Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry anunció la lista de poetas finalistas para otorgar, como cada año, el prestigioso Griffin Poetry Prize. Presentamos una selección de todos los poetas finalistas de este año traducidos al español. Los poetas son: Norman Dubie, Joy Harjo, Don Paterson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Ulrikka S. Gernes, Liz Howard y Soraya Peerbaye. Cada…
All Whitman Laureates at Círculo de Poesía The Walt Whitman Award 1980 Today at Círculo de Poesía, as part of our celebration of the National Poetry Month 2016, we present: Jared Carter (Indiana, 1939). His collection Work, for the Night is Coming won the Walt Whitman Award in 1980. He has been a two-time recipient of the National…
George Herbert, born in Wales in 1593 and deceased in 1633, is considered one of the revolutionary poets of the English tradition; he is, though, a much lesser-known poet in the Spanish language. Here we present three of his most remarkable poems in the translation of Sergio Eduardo Cruz (1994). George Herbert, nacido en Gales…
Presentamos una muestra de poesía de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, preparada por Mariel M. Damián (Ciudad de México, 1994). Está formada por poetas que actualmente estudian en la facultad. POESIA DE LA FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS “Cada poema es único. En cada obra…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Four poems by Sarah Howe, who was announced this Monday as winner of the prestigious TS Eliot Prize. Her poem “Relativity” was read by physicist Stephen Hawking on commemoration of National Poetry Day so we share the video reading of Hawking and present all poems in Spanish and English. Sarah Howe born…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. In this occasion we present 3 poems by the Nobel Prize, W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): Who goes with Fergus?, Leda and the Swan, and one of the most commented Yeats works: The Second Coming. All translated by Sergio Eduardo Cruz Flores (1994). Hoy…
Presentamos una breve semblanza, traducción de poemas, notas críticas, entrevista en video y fotos de la poeta brasileña, Marília Garcia, invitada al Encuentro Internacional de Poesía CDMX 2015, a celebrarse del 26 al 29 de noviembre de 2015 en la ciudad de México. #poesíaCDMX Marília Garcia nació en Río de Janeiro…