The poet Fernando Valverde was chosen by about two hundred researchers from over one hundred universities (Harvard, Columbia, Princeton or Bologna) as the most important poet in Spanish language born after 1970. Allen Josephs is one of the great Spanish scholars of our time, author of the critical edition of Federico García Lorca in prestigious…
Today at Círculo de Poesía we present poetry by the Spanish poet and publisher Javier Bozalongo (Tarragona, 1961). He has published many collections of poetry, among them Líquida nostalgia, Viaje improbable, and La casa a oscuras. He is currently director of Valparaíso Ediciones and consultant at the International Poetry Festival of Granada. photo: Rayo Reyes…
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, 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…