USPiM Mexico Awards

Each year, U.S. Poets in Mexico sponsors a tuition award program for emerging and established poet and writer residents of Mexico.  For our January 2011 workshops, we will award five scholarships in the State of Quintana Roo.  USPiM Awards are intended to include emerging or established writers and poets in our workshop and festival program, and introduce recipients to our Mexican and American faculty and guest poets.  These 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.  More information on our Quintana Roo scholarships coming soon!

Award Recipients 2009:  Fernando de la Cruz, Christian Núñez Tello, Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres, Omar Góngora Guzmán,
Raúl Ferrera, José Chapa Valle and Melisa Larios Luna

Award Recipients 2010:  Jorge Lara, Rafael Robles, Fernando de la Cruz, Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres,  Ángel Fuentes, David Ele Loria Araujo and Raúl Ferrera

Recipients

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

 2010 Award recipient ÁngelFuentes and another participant writing in Pedro Serrano's Translation workshop. Ángel is a student of Fernando de la Cruz at Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan in Merida.


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, participated in our workshops and gave a reading at MELL.


2010 Award recipient Melisa Grisel Bermúdez Torres reading at MELL.


2010 Welcome dinner at La Casa de Frida w/Fernando de la Cruz and David Ele Loria Araujo on the right.




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