USPiM Mexico Awards

Each year, U.S. Poets in Mexico sponsors a scholarship award program for emerging and established poet residents of Mexico.  USPiM Awards are intended to integrate our program with local poetry communities throughout Mexico.  The awards have added greatly to our program with an exchange of ideas and collaborations between poet participants from the U.S. and those from Mexico.  Recipients are chosen by members of the local academic community, by the institution hosting our workshop classrooms, or by our Director. 

Award Recipients

2011:  Fernando de la Cruz (Merida), Program Assistant; Rosa María Adame Aspinwall, Berenice Moreno, Victor Vivas, Chany Castro Polanco, Addy Garcia Guerrero, Ana Mar Moreno Pérez (all from Playa del Carmen).

2010:  Jorge Lara, Rafael Robles, Fernando de la Cruz, Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres,  Ángel Fuentes, David Ele Loria Araujo (all from Merida).

2009:  Fernando de la Cruz, Christian Núñez Tello, Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres, Omar Góngora Guzmán,

José Chapa Valle (all from Merida),Raúl Ferrera(Merida and L.A.), and Melisa Larios from Mexico City.

Award Recipients                                                                                                   

2011 scholarship recipients with Jon Harrington           2011: Chany Castro Polanco working with Jonathan

       

                               2011: Ana Maria Moreno Perez, Victor Vivas translating    2011: Addy Garcia Guerrero, Jen Hofer translated a poem to English

2010 Award recipient Ángel Fuentes and another participant writing in Pedro Serrano's Translation workshop



2010 Award recipient Ángel Fuentes reading at the MELL


2010 Award recipient David Ele Loria Araujo (right) in a group photo that he took of Anne Waldman's workshop


2010 Award recipient Fernando de la Cruz read at MELL and introduced Jorge Lara


2010 Award recipient and esteemed Merida poet, Jorge Lara, read at MELL


2010 Award recipient Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres reading at MELL.


2009 Award recipient Fernando de la Cruz (center left) in Forrest Gander's workshop (Photo: F. Gander)

2009 Award recipient Fernando de la Cruz reading at the Merida English Language Library (MELL). Fernando teaches at Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan. Fer also developed and organizes Cafe Poesia in Merida, a increasingly popular reading venue for local poets and writers.   Thanks go out to Fernando for getting USPiM in touch with so many other poets in Merida and providing another venue for our participants!      

2009 Award recipient Melisa Larios Luna (front right) working in C.D. Wright's workshop


Melisa Larios Luna, Award recipient 2009, reading at MELL. Melisa lives in Mexico City and
contributes to Periodico de Poesia, the online poetry ezine of UNAM.


2009 Award recipients Christian Núñez Tello and Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres
working in Forrest Gander's workshop.
Christian collaborates on the Merida's electronic literary arts magazine, Unas Letras. 

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