Merida Faculty January 2010: Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman is a poet & teacher, and with Allen Ginsberg co-founded of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. She was born April 2, 1945 in Millville, New Jersey. During the late Sixties she ran the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of her own work. She was featured along with Ginsberg in Bob Dylan's experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.'
Waldman is one of the most interesting, vibrant and unpredictable members of the post-Beat poetry community. Her confluence of Buddhist concerns and thought-paths with sources of physicality and anger is particularly impressive. Over the years,she has worked her magic on audiences throughout the United States and around the world, giving poetry readings in Germany, England, Italy, Scotland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, The Netherlands, Bali, India, Nicaragua and Canada. She has also worked and performed with a number of well-known musicians, composers and dancers. More recently, she has collaborated with many visual artists.
Her list of publications is voluminous. She has written more than 42 books, most recently Kill or Cure (Penguin Poets) and her book-length poem, Iovis (Coffee House Press). She is now working on Book III of Iovis.Throughout the poem, Waldman is trying to come to terms with her own male energy and impulses.
Waldman has been acknowledged as a major--and a mature--voice in American poetry. She delves deeply into the masculine soul and its sources of energy. Her goal: to speak against, about, around and through the all-pervasive forces of Western patriarchy and its many manifestations.
Waldman's goal for her poetry is simple, and yet anything but simple to achieve. She says, in effect, that what she is attempting to do on the page is to give readers not "a refined gist" or "an extrapolation" of feeling, thought and emotion, but an actual "experience" of "a high moment." In effect, Waldman is attempting to bring to poetry on the page the same kind of immediacy and sense of immersion that she brings to her poetry, in public performance.
Merida Faculty January 2010: Mark Doty
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007.
Doty’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker. Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections.
Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island. In the fall of 2009, he will join the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Merida Faculty January 2010: Pedro Serrano
Pedro Serrano was born in Montreal, Canada in 1957. Pedro is a poet, scholar, critic, translator and founding member of the Revista Fractal. He is also currently the Editor of UNAM's notable poetry publication, Periódico de Poesía.
Pedro Serrano has published several books of poems:
Ronda del Mig is forthcoming in 2009.
Nueces ("Nuts"), Trilce Ediciones, Mexico, 2009
Desplazamientos ("Displacements"), Editorial Candaya - Candaya Poesia 5 (2007), with a CD by the author
Turba ("Peat"), Ediciones sin Nombre, Mexico (2005)
Tres Poemas ("Three Poems"), Pequena Venecia, Caracas (2000)
Ignoranica ("Ignorance"), El Equilibrista, Mexico (1994)
El Miedo ("Fear"), El Toucan de Virginia, Mexico (1986)
Pedro's work is included in the following anthologies:
Líneas Conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos/Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico, 2 volumes,
Sarabande Books (2006)
Reversible Monuments: An Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Poetry, Copper Canyon Press (2002)
With Carlos López Beltrán, Pedro edited and translated the groundbreaking anthology, La generación del cordero: Antología de la poesía actual en las Islas Británicas ("The Lamb Generation"), Trilce Ediciones (2000), which brought together translations of 30 contemporary British poets. He has translated Shakespeare's King John into Spanish, Norma Ediciones (2001) as well as the poems of Irish poet, Matthew Sweeney, No arroje piedras a este letrero, Trilce Ediciones (2001). One of Pedro's noteworthy essays is entitled Translating Amiri Baraka Into Spanish and was published by The Antioch Review (Summer, 2000).
Pedro Serrano wrote the libretto for the opera, Las Marimbas de l'Exil/El Norte in Veracruz (music by Luc LaMasne), which toured through France and Mexico to great acclaim. He has pubilshed essays and poems in Mexican publications, Letras Libres, Casa del Tiempo, Diálogos, Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Económica, Vuelta y Cartapacios and in Spanish publications Babelia, Revista de Libros, Rosa Cúbica, Revista Atlántica de Poesía, Sibila, El Rapto de Europa, Guaraguao and Frontera.
Pedro studied Spanish literature at Mexico's National Autonomous University (his doctoral thesis was a comparitive analysis of the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz) and English literature at the University of London. He was invited to conduct research as part of the Faculty of Philology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and has taught classes in Poetry and Philosophy on the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Mexico. In 2007, Pedro was awarded a Guggenheim grant.
Mr. Serrano hold a doctorate in Spanish literature and is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM D.F.) in Mexico City.
Merida Faculty January 2010: Martin Espada
Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published sixteen books in all as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including two collections of poems last year: Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack, 2008), released in England, and La Tumba de Buenaventura Roig (Terranova, 2008), a bilingual edition published in Puerto Rico. The Republic of Poetry, a collection of poems published by Norton in 2006, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Another collection, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton, 1996), won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other books of poetry include Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2003), A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (Norton, 2000), City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (Norton, 1993), and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Curbstone, 1990). He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Antonia Pantoja Award, the Charity Randall Citation, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the Premio Fronterizo, two NEA Fellowships, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His poems have appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation and The Best American Poetry. He has also published a collection of essays, Zapata’s Disciple (South End, 1998); edited two anthologies, Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press (Curbstone, 1994) and El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (University of Massachusetts, 1997); and released an audiobook of poetry called Now the Dead will Dance the Mambo (Leapfrog, 2004). His work has been translated into ten languages. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is now a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda.
Merida Featured Reading & Guest Workshop January 2010: José Vicente Anaya
José Vicente Anaya is a distinguished poet, essayist, editor, translator and cultural journalist. He was born in Villa Coronado, Chihuahua, in 1947. He currently lives in Mexico City. From March 1997 to December 2008, Mr. Vicente Anaya founded and was co-Director of Alforja REVISTA DE POESÍA (Saddlebag POETRY MAGAZINE) and Ediciones Alforja (Saddlebag Editions), and was President of Alforja, Arte y Literatura, A. C (Please see link at the bottom of the page for Alforja's amazing website and publications, bios of authors and more!). José is currently an editor of Círculo de Poesía, an online literary journal for poets, academics and critics. He also collaborates on a bi-weekly column of culture for the newspaper, El Financiero (The Financier).
José Vicente Anaya has published over twenty books:
Avándaro (reportaje en colaboración), Editorial Extemporáneos, 1971
Los valles solitarios nemorosos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 1976
Morgue, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM), 1981
Punto negro, Universidad Veracruzana, 1981
Largueza del cuento corto chino (7 ediciones, la más reciente en editorial Verde Halago, 2005)
Piratas/Poetas, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro-UAEM, 1982
Híkuri (4 ediciones: 1987, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla; 1988, CONACULTA, col El Nigromante; 2004, CONACULTA,
col La Centena; 2005, Casa de Poesía, Costa Rica)
Cayeron del cielo… los poetas beats, sin pie de imprenta, 1987
Híkuri y otros poemas (tres libros en un volumen), CONACULTA, col. Nigromante, 1989
Breve destello intenso. El haiku clásico del Japón, UNAM, Textos de Difusión Cultural, col. El Puente, 1992
Evas de un paraíso reencontrado. Poesía de las mujeres de Chihuahua (en coautoría con Guadalupe Salas), Universidad
Autónoma de Chihuahua, col. El Ramal, , Chihuahua, México, 1995
Poetas en la noche del mundo, UNAM, Textos de Difusión Cultural, col. Diagonales, 1997
Los poetas que cayeron del cielo. La generación beat comentada y en su propia voz, Editorial Juan Pablos e Instituto de
Cultura de Baja California (2 ediciones: 1998 y 2001)
Cuento breve japonés, Editorial LunaArena, col. Tallo de Luz, 1999
Peregrino, Ediciones alforja, 2002
Gozo del sexo. Antología poética, Ediciones alforja, col. Poesía en el Andén, 2006
El rompimiento amoroso en la poesía, Ediciones alforja, col. Poesía en el Andén, 2006
El viaje en la poesía, Ediciones alforja, col. Poesía en el Andén, 2006
Brota la vida en el abrazo. Poesía mística y cotidianidad de Concha Urquiza. Una biografía oral, Instituto Veracruzano de
Cultura, col. Cuadernos de Veracruz, México, 2007
La ira en la poesía, Ediciones Alforja, col. Poesía en el andén, 2008
La avaricia en la poesía, Ediciones Alforja, col Poesía en al andén, 2008
Mr. Vicente Anaya's published translations include:
Reflexiones sobre la muerte de Mishima de Henry Miller, UAEM (4 ediciones de 1981 a 1995)
Ventana de la mujer en llamas de Marge Piercy, UAEM (2 ediciones: 1981 y 1985)
Aullido, Kaddish (y otros poemas) de Allen Ginsberg (traducción y prólogo), UAEM (2 ediciones: 1981 y 1983)
En la mano desvanecida del tiempo de Gregory Corso, UAEM, 1982
Antología de la narrativa japonesa de posguerra (cotraductor) de Átsuko Tanabe, Premiá Editora, 1989
Poemas de Carl Sandburg, UNAM, col. Cuadernos de Lectura, 1990
Los amos. Apuntes sobre las visiones de Jim Morrison, traducción y prólogo, (2 ediciones: 1990, Dosfilos Editores; y 2006, Laberinto
Ediciones
Aullido y otros poemas de Allen Ginsberg (2 ediciones, la más reciente en Editorial Laberinto, 2006)
Una oración americana de Jim Morrison, Laberinto Ediciones, col Poema de largo aliento, México, 2008
His poems and essays in other anthologies and books:
Poemas en: Pájaro de calor. Ocho, poetas infrarrealistas. Presentación de Juan Cervera, Ediciones Asunción Sanchís, México-Lora
del Río, 1976.
Poemas en: Palabra nueva. Dos décadas de poesía en México. Sandro Cohen (compilación, prólogo y notas), Editorial Premiá, col.
Libros del bicho, núm. 20, México, 1981.
Ensayo "Un geometrismo telúrico que apunta al cielo" (sobre el escultor Sebastián). En el libro Sebastián ante la crítica. Antología de
textos. Selección de Roberto Vallarino, publicado por Taller Sebastián y Ediciones del Equilibrista, México, 1986.
Poemas en: Los más bellos poemas de amor en lengua española. Carlos Montemayor (compilación y prólogo), Editorial Diana,
México, 1997.
Estudio preliminar, recopilación de poemas dispersos y edición del libro El corazón preso –toda la poesía reunida- de Concha
Urquiza (3 ediciones: 1985, UAEM; 1990 y 2001, CONACULTA, col. Lecturas Mexicanas).
Ensayo sobre Yukio Mishima en el libro Aproximaciones a Yamato. Los escritores mexicanos y Japón de José Luis Ontiveros,
Premiá, 1989.
Ensayo sobre el haiku en el libro Camino del haiku. Antología del haiku hispanoamericano de Agustín Jiménez, Editorial Torre de
Lulio, 2004.
"Margaret Randall en la novísima vanguardia poética de Estados Unidos” prólogo en el libro Dentro de otro tiempo: reflejos del Gran
Cañón de Margaret Randall, alforja-Conaculta, 2006.
“Poeta aterradoramente lleno de luz” prólogo en Tres libros de Jaime Jaramillo Escobar, alforja-Conaculta, 2006.
Poema en 99 poemas mexicanos de amor. César Arístides y Leticia Quiroz, Editorial Grijalbo, México, 2007.
In 1980 Mr. Anaya received the prestigious Premio Plural de Poesia, an award that is selected from poets of all Spanish speaking countries. in 1981, he received a poetry scholarship from INBA-FONAPAS. In 1989, José was awarded the Premio de Literatura Tomás Valles prize for work published. In January 2000, he was awarded the Escritor Emérito por el Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura y el CONACULTA. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores FONCA-CONACULTA. He was the Guest of Honor for the IV Festival Internacional de Poesía Costa Rica 2005. Mr. Vicente Anaya is also a member of the Sociedad de Escritores de México y Japón (SEMEJA).
Mr. Anaya was honored at a ceremony by the VIII Congreso Internacional de Poesía y Poética 2007, of the
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México for three days in October, 2007, where the 20 year anniversary of the first edition of his notable book of poetry, Híkuri, was celebrated "con tres mesas redondas sobre su obra literaria."
Conferences and lectures on poetry:
En varias universidades y centros culturales de Italia, Estados Unidos, Colombia, Costa Rica y México, como: Universitá degli Studi Bologna, University of Southern California, San Diego State University, University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, Centro Cultural La Misión de San Francisco California, Casa de Poesía Silva de Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de Salamanca en Bogotá, IV Feria Internacional del Libro de Manizales, Universidad Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza de Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica Sede del Atlántico, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Colegio de Sonora, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Universidad Anáhuac, Universidad Iberoamericana Sede Puebla, Universidad Michoacana Nicolás de Hidalgo, CIELA-Fraguas –Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes, etc.
Educational positions:
Durante los años de 1995, 1996 y 1997 impartió clases de literatura en el Seminario-Taller de Poesía “Nellie Campobello” en Durango, bajo los auspicios del Programa de Descentralización de la Cultura del CONACULTA y de la Secretaría de Educación del Gobierno del Estado de Durango. Impartió el Seminario-Taller de Poesía “Juan Martínez” en la ciudad de Tijuana, de agosto de 1989 a agosto de 1999, con el apoyo del Instituto de Cultura de Baja California y del programa de Descentralización de la Cultura. En el año 2000 impartió clases de poesía durante un semestre en la Escuela de la SOGEM de la ciudad de México. Seminarios como los antes mencionados los ha impartido en las ciudades de Chihuahua, Mexicali, Puebla y Gómez Palacio.
Ha sido miembro de los jurados en varios certámenes nacionales de ensayo, poesía, narrativa y traducción; convocados por instituciones como: UNAM, INBA, CONACULTA, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Instituto Coahuilense de la Cultura.
Other work and projects:
Ha hecho labor editorial para Siglo XXI Editores, SEPs 70s, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (revista Desacatos) y CONACULTA. Fue Jefe del Departamento Editorial de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Jefe de Redacción en la Revista Memoranda del ISSSTE. Editor Adjunto de las revistas MD y Medicina y Cultura de la empresa Mundo Médico. Ha sido colaborador en revistas y periódicos como: Siempre!, Excélsior, UnomásUno, El Financiero, La Jornada, Revista de la Universidad Nacional (UNAM), Casa del Tiempo (UAM), Nexos, Arqueología Mexicana, Atticus Review de San Diego California, Alero (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala), etc.
More information:
You can find more about José Vicente Anaya at the Alforja - Revista de Poesia site Here
and more Here
Sus datos también aparecen en: 1) Enciclopedia de México (2ª. Edición); 2) Diccionario Enciclopédico de México de Humberto Musacchio; 3) Diccionario de Escritores Mexicanos, UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas; 4) Diccionario Bio-bibliográfico de Escritores Contemporáneos de México de Josefina Lara, INBA; 5) Diccionario Enciclopédico del Estado de México de Humberto Musacchio ; y 6) De frente y de Perfil. Semblanzas de poetas de Myriam Moscona (con fotografías de Rogelio Cuéllar).
Merida Faculty January 2010: Jonathan Harrington
...Jonathan Harrington lives on the Hacienda San Antonio Xpakay near Mérida, Yucatán Mexico. He has one son, Trevor.
Jonathan has published a chapbook of poems, Handcuffed to the Jukebox, and his poetry has appeared in Poetry East, Texas Review, Main Street Rag, Pebble Lake Review, The Shop (Ireland), Green River Review, Black Bear Review, Kentucky Poetry Review, South Florida Poetry Review, The Spectator, English Journal, Skylight, and countless other publications as well being featured on public radio.
In addition to eight books, Jonathan Harrington has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in everything from the New York Times to the Texas Review.
He received a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1983.
In 1989 he edited New Visions: Fiction by Florida Writers. Tropical Son appeared monthly in Metro Magazine and won the coveted Gold “Charlie” Award for best column of the year from the Florida Magazine Association in 1990. In 1992, twenty-six of these essays were collected in Tropical Son: Essays on the Nature of Florida, and published to wide critical acclaim. After working as an editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and teaching Creative Writing for ten years at the University of Central Florida, Jonathan moved to New York City in 1993. In the next ten years he published a series of highly popular mystery novels: The Death of Cousin Rose, The Second Sorrowful Mystery, A Great Day for Dying, St. Valentine’s Diamond and Death on the Southwest Chief. The books appeared in hardback, paperback and book-club editions.
Most recently, Jonathan has been working on translations of poems by Briceida Cuevas Cob, from Maya language into Spanish and English, which will be published in 2009 and 2010 by World Literature Today and The Dirty Goat.
Merida Featured Reading & Guest Workshop January 2010: Pura López Colomé
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Pura López Colomé was born in Mexico City in 1952. She spent part of her childhood and youth between Mexico City and
Mérida, Yucatán. She currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Nine books of Pura's poems have been published in Mexico, the United States and Holland:
El sueño del cazador (The Hunter´s Dream; Cuarto Menguante, 1985)
Un cristal en otro (A Crystal within Another; Ediciones Toledo, 1989)
Aurora (Ediciones del Equilibrista, 1994)
Intemperie (In the Open; Ediciones Sin Nombre-Juan Pablos Editor, 1997)
Éter es (Ether It Is, CONACULTA, Col. Práctica Mortal, 1999)
Música inaudita - Poesía 1985-2000 (Inaudible Music; Ediciones Verdehalago, 2002)
No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López Colomé (Graywolf Press, 2002, bilingual edition)
Quimera (In Bonnefanten, Banholt, Holanda, June 2003)
Tragaluz de noche (Night Skylight, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003)
Mother Tongue (Arlen House, 2006)
Santo y seña (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007) Awarded the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia Prize 2007 (Some poems here)
Reliquia (Ediciones Sin Nombre-Conaculta, 2008)
Aurora, now published in English with translations by Jason Stumpf (Shearsman Editions, 2008)
Santo y Seña (Watchword) with translations by Forrest Gander is forthcoming
Pura's poems have been included in many anthologies, including the following:
Asamblea de poetas jóvenes de México (Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1980)
Poetas de una generación 1950-1959 (UNAM-PREMIA)
The Fertile Rhythms: Contemporary Women Poets of Mexico (Latin Literary Review Press, Pittsburgh, Penn.,1989)
Ruido de sueños - Noise of Dreams (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1994)
La rosa escrita. Breve antología poética de la rosa en lengua castellana (Editorial Aldus, 1996)
Ellas, voces, poemas (Col. Tiempo Detenido, Artes de México, 1996)
Las divinas mutantes. Carta de relación del itinerario de la poesía femenina en México (UNAM, Coordinación de Difusión
Cultural, 1996)
Reversible Monuments - Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Edited by Mónica de la Torre & Michael Wiegers, Copper Canyon
Press, 2002
Within the field of translation, she has published the following books and collections:
William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (Material de Lectura núm. 99, Serie Poesía Moderna, UNAM, 1982)
Zohar, The Book of Splendor, by Gershom Scholem (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 1984)
Samuel Beckett: Selected Short Stories (Material de Lectura núm. 23, Serie El Cuento Contemporáneo, UNAM, 1984)
The Structure of the Novel, by Edwin Muir (UAM, 1984)
Kora in Hell: Improvisations, by William Carlos Williams (UAEM , 1984), in collaboration with Luis Cortés Bargalló
Selected Poems, by H.D. (Universidad Veracruzana, 1984)
Delicious Murder, by Ernest Mandel (UNAM, 1986)
Poemes Francaises, by Rainer Maria Rilke (Punto por Punto Editores, 1986), in collaboration with Guillermo Rousset Banda Anthology of the International Poetry Festival of Mexico City, Poems by Breyten Breytenbach (Ediciones El Tucán de
Virginia/Fundación E. Gutman, 1988)
Visionen, by Bertolt Brecht (UNAM, 1989), in collaboration with Alberto Blanco
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, by William H. Gass (UAM, 1989)
Station Island, by Seamus Heaney (Ediciones Toledo, 1992) Awarded the National Prize for Poetry Translation of Poetry 1992,
granted by the Government of Mexico through its National Institute of Fine Arts
An Anthology of American Poetry since 1950, edited by Eliot Weinberger (Ediciones del Equilibrista, 1992), in which PLC
contributed with translations by H.D., Frank O´Hara and Robert Creeley
High Windows and Other Poems, by Philip Larkin (Col. Margen de Poesía núm 20, UAM, 1993)
More than Two Centuries of American Poetry, Volumes One and Two, anthology in which Pura translated poetry by Carl Sandburg,
Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Marianne Moore, May Swenson, Richard Hugo,Carolyn Kizer, Robert Creeley,
Adrienne Rich and Robert Hass (Serie bilingüe "El Puente", UNAM, 1993,1994)
Praise / Human Wishes, by Robert Hass (Serie bilingüe "El Puente", UNAM, 1995)
Ausgewählte Gedichte, by Georg Trakl (Material de Lectura núm. 187, Serie Poesía Moderna, UNAM, 1995)
Selected Poems, by H.D. (Ediciones Hotel Ambosmundos, 1996)
After the Alphabets: An Anthology of Poems 1952-1993, by W.S. Merwin (Ediciones Hotel Ambosmundos, 1996), in collaboration
with Alberto Blanco
Selected Poems, by Philip Larkin (Material de Lectura núm. 192, Serie Poesía Moderna, UNAM, 1996)
Selected Poems, by Seamus Heaney (Material de Lectura núm. 191, Serie Poesía Moderna, UNAM, 1996)
Poems of the Long Man, by Charles Hasty (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 1997), in collaboration with Rafael Vargas
Seeing Things, by Seamus Heaney (Col. Cien del Mundo, CONACULTA, 1998)
The Light of the Leaves, by Seamus Heaney (illustrated by Jan Hendrix, Mexico-The Netherlands, Art Book, In De Bonefant-Imprenta
de los Trópicos, 1999);
Three Essays (Nobel Lecture, Dylan the Durable, The Impact of Translation), by Seamus Heaney (Col. Sello Bermejo,
CONACULTA, 1999);
Ausgewählte Erzählungen, by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (Editorial Aldus, Col. Los Placeres y los Días, 1999), in collaboration
with Alberto Cue
Otra canción / Another Song, in which she translated Forrest Gander (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, México, 1999)
Selected Essays, by T.S. Eliot (Dirección General de Publicaciones, UNAM, 2000)
Lunar Caustic, by Malcolm Lowry (Biblioteca Era, Editorial Era, 2000)
The Tain (translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailnge. Special Edition by Cartón y Papel de México, 2000)
Over Nine Waves. A Book of Irish Legends, by Marie Heaney (CONACULTA, Col. Sello Bermejo, 2000)
The Spirit Level, by Seamus Heaney (bilingual edition, Trilce Ediciones, Col. TristánLecoq Universal, 2000)
Lady One, by Breyten Breytenbach (Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003)
Seascapes and Other Poems, by Hans van de Waarsenburg (Trilce Editions, 2004)
Finders Keepers, by Seamus Heaney (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006)
Currently in print: Ararat and The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück (Verdehalago)
Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (Trilce Editions)
Sonnets, by Seamus Heaney (Ediciones del Equilibrista)
Pura has also translated selected poems and prose by Ezra Pound, Brian Patten, Lawrence Durell, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, W.B. Yeats, Paul Celan, William Styron, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesen, Jane Bowles, Raymond Carver, Alastair Reid, among many other authors.
Her poems have also been included in many literary journals, including: Edinburgh Review, The Alembic, TriQuarterly, Two Lines-A Journal of Translation, Verse, Poesia Sempre, Spork and Circumference.
She has been a constant contributor, mainly since 1980, of sábado, the literary book review of newspaper unomásuno, in the areas of poetry, criticism, poetry and prose translations from English, French and German. She has also been a contributor of other literary book reviews, such as El Dominical (newspaper "El Nacional"), La Jornada Semanal ("La Jornada"), El Ángel ("Reforma"), El Semanario ("Novedades"), Posdata ("El Independiente"). Pura has written essays for different collections such as the one carried out
by Arturo Azuela in 1992 for the Archive Collection of the National Council for Arts and Culture, including critical writings on Al filo del agua, by Agustín Yáñez; as well as in different magazines, e.g., La Gaceta (Fondo de Cultura Económica), La Revista de la UNAM, Los Universitarios (UNAM), Nexos, Vuelta, Gradiva, Pauta, La Brújula en el Bolsillo, Cartapacios, Casa del Tiempo (UAM), Viceversa, Boletín de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UNAM), Crítica, Equis, Letras Libres, Poesía y Poética, Fractal, El Poeta y su Trabajo.
by Arturo Azuela in 1992 for the Archive Collection of the National Council for Arts and Culture, including critical writings on Al filo del agua, by Agustín Yáñez; as well as in different magazines, e.g., La Gaceta (Fondo de Cultura Económica), La Revista de la UNAM, Los Universitarios (UNAM), Nexos, Vuelta, Gradiva, Pauta, La Brújula en el Bolsillo, Cartapacios, Casa del Tiempo (UAM), Viceversa, Boletín de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UNAM), Crítica, Equis, Letras Libres, Poesía y Poética, Fractal, El Poeta y su Trabajo.
In 1982 she received the Yearly Fellowship granted by the Mexican Center of Writers for critical writing. During this period she worked under the guidance of Salvador Elizondo, Juan Rulfo, Héctor Azar and Carlos Montemayor.
Although Pura was partially (Highschool) educated in the United States, she did her Undergraduate as well as her Graduate studies in Hispanic, Mexican and Latin American Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During the seventies she was a member of Alicia Reyes´ literary workshop at the Capilla Alfonsina and, in 1977, she was awarded the Alfonso Reyes National Prize for Young Writers, for the essay entitled Socratic Dialogues in Alfonso Reyes, which was published, several years later, in James Willis Robb´s collection entitled Further Essays on Alfonso Reyes (Vol. II, part 2, El Colegio Nacional, México, 1996).
Reviews of No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López Colomé (and Forrest Gander's excellent translations) can be found Here
Merida Faculty - January 2009: C.D. Wright
Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
C. D. Wright is the author of the following books of poetry:
Rising, Falling, Hovering, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2008
One Big Self: An Investigation, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2007
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Editions (Newcastle, England) 2007
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil, (poetry, memoir and essay) Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2005
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2001
Deepstep Come Shining, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 1998
Tremble, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ) 1996
Just Whistle: A Valentine, photographs by Deborah Luster, Kelsey Street Press (Berkeley, CA) 1993
String Light, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA) 1991
Further Adventures with You, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA) 1986
Translations of the Gospel Back Into Tongues, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY) 1981
Terrorism (chapbook), Lost Roads Publishing (Fayetteville, AR) 1979
Room Rented by a Single Woman (chapbook), Lost Roads Publishing (Fayetteville, AR) 1977
Alla Breve Loving (chapbook), Mill Mountain Press (Seattle, Washington) 1976
C.D. Wright's poetry is included in numerous anthologies, including:
American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006)
New Writings on Motherhood and Poetics, edited by Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman, Wesleyan University Press
(Middletown, CT) 2002
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate Diversity of Their Art, edited by Annie Finsh and Erin Belieu, University of
Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI) 2001
Poetry Performed, edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Mosby, Sourcebooks 2001
The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cray Nelson, Oxford University Press (New York, NY) 2000
The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, eds. Michael Collier and Stanley Plumly, Published for: Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference and Middlebury College Press by University of New England Press 1999
Other:
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, photographs by Deborah Luster, Twin Palms (Austin, TX) 2003
Editor: Ploughshares, 2002-2003
Contributing Editor: Free Verse (Internet journal) 2001
Editor: Besmilr Brigham, Run through Rock: Selected Short Poems of Besmilr Brigham, Lost Roads Press (Barrington, RI) 2000
Contributing Editor: Five Fingers Revise, 1991-1997
C.D. Wright has been a contributor in many periodicals, including American Letters and Commentary, Brick, Chair, Conjunctinos, Fense, Document, Ironwood, American Poetry REeview, New Yorker and Sulphur.
In 1994, C. D. was Poet Laureate of Rhode Island and held that post from 1995-1999. She also authored two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her home state and one for Rhode Island. With photographer Deborah Luster, she published One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, a large format, limited edition art book. The project won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and their collaboration exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, and the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. among others. On a fellowship for writers from the Wallace Foundation, she curated a “Walk-in Book of Arkansas,” an exhibition that toured throughout her native state for two years.
She received a B.A. from the University of Memphis and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. She was a lecturer in poetry, writing and publishing at San Francisco State University from 1979-1981 and joined the faculty of Brown University in 1983. She has held Visiting Faculty positions at the Burren School of Art in County Clare, Ireland, at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and as 2004 Elliston poet-in-residence at the University of Cincinnati. From 1998-2000 C.D. was a member of the board of directors of the Howard Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow. C.D. Wright edited Lost Roads Publishers with her husband, Forrest Gander, for 30 years.
C. D. Wright is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems was a finalist for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2004 she was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2005, she was given the Robert Creeley Award and elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rising, Falling, Hovering, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2008
One Big Self: An Investigation, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2007
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Editions (Newcastle, England) 2007
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil, (poetry, memoir and essay) Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2005
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2001
Deepstep Come Shining, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 1998
Tremble, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ) 1996
Just Whistle: A Valentine, photographs by Deborah Luster, Kelsey Street Press (Berkeley, CA) 1993
String Light, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA) 1991
Further Adventures with You, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA) 1986
Translations of the Gospel Back Into Tongues, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY) 1981
Terrorism (chapbook), Lost Roads Publishing (Fayetteville, AR) 1979
Room Rented by a Single Woman (chapbook), Lost Roads Publishing (Fayetteville, AR) 1977
Alla Breve Loving (chapbook), Mill Mountain Press (Seattle, Washington) 1976
C.D. Wright's poetry is included in numerous anthologies, including:
American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006)
New Writings on Motherhood and Poetics, edited by Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman, Wesleyan University Press
(Middletown, CT) 2002
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate Diversity of Their Art, edited by Annie Finsh and Erin Belieu, University of
Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI) 2001
Poetry Performed, edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Mosby, Sourcebooks 2001
The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cray Nelson, Oxford University Press (New York, NY) 2000
The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, eds. Michael Collier and Stanley Plumly, Published for: Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference and Middlebury College Press by University of New England Press 1999
Other:
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, photographs by Deborah Luster, Twin Palms (Austin, TX) 2003
Editor: Ploughshares, 2002-2003
Contributing Editor: Free Verse (Internet journal) 2001
Editor: Besmilr Brigham, Run through Rock: Selected Short Poems of Besmilr Brigham, Lost Roads Press (Barrington, RI) 2000
Contributing Editor: Five Fingers Revise, 1991-1997
C.D. Wright has been a contributor in many periodicals, including American Letters and Commentary, Brick, Chair, Conjunctinos, Fense, Document, Ironwood, American Poetry REeview, New Yorker and Sulphur.
In 1994, C. D. was Poet Laureate of Rhode Island and held that post from 1995-1999. She also authored two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her home state and one for Rhode Island. With photographer Deborah Luster, she published One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, a large format, limited edition art book. The project won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and their collaboration exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, and the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. among others. On a fellowship for writers from the Wallace Foundation, she curated a “Walk-in Book of Arkansas,” an exhibition that toured throughout her native state for two years.
She received a B.A. from the University of Memphis and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. She was a lecturer in poetry, writing and publishing at San Francisco State University from 1979-1981 and joined the faculty of Brown University in 1983. She has held Visiting Faculty positions at the Burren School of Art in County Clare, Ireland, at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and as 2004 Elliston poet-in-residence at the University of Cincinnati. From 1998-2000 C.D. was a member of the board of directors of the Howard Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow. C.D. Wright edited Lost Roads Publishers with her husband, Forrest Gander, for 30 years.
C. D. Wright is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems was a finalist for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2004 she was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2005, she was given the Robert Creeley Award and elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ms. Wright is currently Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University near Providence, Rhode Island.
More about C.D. Wright More about C.D. Wright at the Poetry Foundation website
and at the American Academy of Poets website
Merida Faculty - January 2009: Bob Holman
Recently dubbed a member of the "Poetry Pantheon" by the New York Times Magazine and featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. profile in The New Yorker, Bob Holman has previously been crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (New York Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen), and "this generation's Ezra Pound," (San Francisco's Poetry Flash).
From Slam to Hiphop, from performance poetry to spoken word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the reemergence of poetry in our culture. The series he produced for PBS, the United States of Poetry, features over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. USOP lives on as an anthology from Harry Abrams Publishers (in its second printing), a home video from KQED, and soundtrack CD from Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records, a label Holman co-founded. He has appeared widely on TV: "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "ABC News Magazine," MTV's "Spoken Word Unplugged," and "The Charlie Rose Show," among others. The NEA has announced major preproduction support for his new poetry media project, the World of Poetry (worldofpoetry.org), the world's first digital poetry anthology.
Holman's latest collection of poems, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close, was published by Aperture in 2006. The book consists of twenty daguerreotypes by Close and twenty praise poems by Holman, one for each of the artists Close photographed. The collaboration is also a traveling exhibition, with stops in New York, Toronto, Tacoma, and Santago, Chile through 2009.
In 1993, Tin Fish published Bob's translations (from Chinese, with the author) of Zhang Er's Carved Water. His selected, The Collect Call of the Wild, from Henry Holt was proclaimed "the first poetic drop-kick into the new millennium" by Next magazine and "Impressive (to say the least)" by Robert Creeley. He co-edited Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (also from Henry Holt), winner of the American Book Award, having helped reopen the Cafe in 1989, where he ran the infamous Poetry Slams through 1996. Holman's first CD, In With The Out Crowd, was produced by needle-drop wizard Hal Willner. Backed by Chris Spedding, Wayne Kramer, and Bobby Neuwirth, the album moves from rock to country to ballad, shot through with urgent humor and what can only be called, "poetry." Lou Reed says it is "an astonishing achievement." His new CD, The Awesome Whatever, "Holman's mastery shows that the poetry-music tradition is alive and well," says Russell Banks.
In 1993, Tin Fish published Bob's translations (from Chinese, with the author) of Zhang Er's Carved Water. His selected, The Collect Call of the Wild, from Henry Holt was proclaimed "the first poetic drop-kick into the new millennium" by Next magazine and "Impressive (to say the least)" by Robert Creeley. He co-edited Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (also from Henry Holt), winner of the American Book Award, having helped reopen the Cafe in 1989, where he ran the infamous Poetry Slams through 1996. Holman's first CD, In With The Out Crowd, was produced by needle-drop wizard Hal Willner. Backed by Chris Spedding, Wayne Kramer, and Bobby Neuwirth, the album moves from rock to country to ballad, shot through with urgent humor and what can only be called, "poetry." Lou Reed says it is "an astonishing achievement." His new CD, The Awesome Whatever, "Holman's mastery shows that the poetry-music tradition is alive and well," says Russell Banks.
Bob fronts poetry into daily life by all means: as Curator for the biennial People's Poetry Gathering (peoplespoetry.org) in NYC, he brings together oral poetry traditions from Africa (griot), Brazil (cordel), NYC (Braggin Rites), Mexico (decima) and other countries with hobo poets (U. Utah Phillips), cowboys (Wally McRae), dub (Linton Kwesi Johnson), blues poets (Sterling Plumpp) and rockers (Ani DiFranco) and the proverbial others in a 3-day "populist bacchanal" (Stanley Kunitz) that attracted 12,000 people on April 03, 2006. His current work for the Gathering is focused on the poetry of endangered languages (including Maya). Bob is also poetry guide at About.com (poetry.about.com), consistently a banner site with 7,000 "Museletter" subscribers and 35,000 hits per week.
He won three Emmys over six seasons producing Poetry Spots for WNYC-TV, received a Bessie Performance Award, has twice been Featured Artist at the Chicago Poetry Video Festival and won International Public Television Awards for USOP and Words in Your Face, a production of the PBS series "Alive TV." He produced the reading series rAP mEETS pOETRY with Bill Adler, which resulted in the "Fighting Wordz" intersticials on MTV. Holman, Adler, and Sekou Sundiata created "the world's first" poetry record label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records (1995-8) -- releases included Sekou Sundiata, Flippin the Script: Rap Meets Poetry, Allen Ginsberg's The Ballad of the Skeletons, with music by Paul McCartney and Philip Glass, young poets Wammo, Michele Serros and Beau Sia; major voices Maggie Estep and The Last Poets and Hal Willner's Edgar Allan Poe feast, with stories and poems read by Iggy Pop, Dr. John, Christopher Walken and others, and the definitive 4-CD William Burroughs box, nominated for a Grammy.
In 2001, the New York University Fales Library acquired his Poetry Media Library, calling it "the finest of its kind," and has recently received NEA funding to catalogue and digitize the collection. In 2004-5, Holman was Poet in Residence at WNYC Radio , New York's NPR station, reading a poem, generally contemporary and related to the day's events, on Morning Edition every week or so; he is also that station's guide to spoken word recordings, appearing monthly on Sound Check. Work has begun on a radio series, "Live from the Bowery Poetry Club!"
Holman was founding editor of the NYC Poetry Calendar (1977), curated reading series at St. Marks Church (he worked at the Poetry Project for seven years), the Whitney Museum, the Public Theater, and other locales. He has toured the world with his "amazing traveling word show," and is Artistic Director of the touring company Real Live Poetry. He is a firm believer in the United States of Poetry, with recent stops at National Poetry Slams (he coached the 1997 championship Mouth Almighty team), the Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and the American Sign Language Literary Conference in Rochester, New York. He has been awarded three NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, been funded by the NEA, New York State Council on the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. In 2004, he became a Def Poet, appearing on HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
In 2000, Bob hosted the International Poets Cabaret at the Frankfurt Book Fair where he also premiered his SemiCento, a polyglot poem gathered line-by-line from poets around the world, and he performs regularly with David "Pere Ubu" Thomas in the punk opera, Mirror Man. He presented his paper, "The Reemergence of the Oral Tradition in the Digital Age" at the Pan-African Literature and Languages Conference in Asmara, Eritrea; and is the recipient of Curbstone Press's "Honored Poet" award. In summer 2002, he was the Featured Artist at the First International Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, screening USOP, judging the competition, and performing his multimedia poem "@the Café" with a live DJ. In 2003 he was awarded the Barnes and Noble "Writers for Writers Award" by Poets & Writers, and represented the USA in Poetry Africa in Durban. In 2004, he performed in Warsaw, teaching a workshop in performance poetry, and in Denmark, at the huge Roskilde Rock Festival. In 2008, he was a US delegate to the Kolkota Book Fair and also to the VIII International Poetry Festival of Costa Rica.
From 1998-2002, he was Visiting Professor of Writing and Integrated Arts at Bard College, where he adapted and directed John Ashbery's book-length poem, Girls on the Run and SUDDEN EKPHRASIS!: The Poetry of Robert Kelly. Since 2003, he has taught Exploding Text: Poetry Performance at Columbia University, as a graduate course in the School of the Arts. In 2007 he began teaching a new course, Art and the Political Sphere at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
The opening in 2002 of the Bowery Poetry Club in downtown Manhattan, is a dream realized for Bob. He has spent a life in poetry, and the Club, with happenings seven days a week, a coffee shop, bookstore, bar and performance space, is its physicalization.
A non-profit, Bowery Arts & Science, Ltd., works with the Club for educational, outreach, and technological pursuits. The Club is an open door twixt art and technology, content and media. In 2005, Bowery Arts & Science and The Open Center launched Study Abroad on the Bowery, a certificate course in applied poetics with Anne Waldman as Co-Artistic Director with Bob. Spring 2006 marked the beginning of collaborative programming for SAB! with the CUNY Grad Center; the summer session is centered on the Summer Institute for Social Justice and Applied Poetics, a program run in tandem with Youth Speaks.
A non-profit, Bowery Arts & Science, Ltd., works with the Club for educational, outreach, and technological pursuits. The Club is an open door twixt art and technology, content and media. In 2005, Bowery Arts & Science and The Open Center launched Study Abroad on the Bowery, a certificate course in applied poetics with Anne Waldman as Co-Artistic Director with Bob. Spring 2006 marked the beginning of collaborative programming for SAB! with the CUNY Grad Center; the summer session is centered on the Summer Institute for Social Justice and Applied Poetics, a program run in tandem with Youth Speaks.
More about Bob Holman here and here Interview with Bob by Monica de la Torre here
Merida Faculty - January 2009: Jack Collom
Jack Collom currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Jack Collom is the author of the following books of poetry:
2008 Situations, Sings, with Lyn Hejinian, Adventures in Poetry (New York)
2007 In the Wind, Baksun Books (Colorado)
2006 Exchanges of Earth and Sky, Fish Drum Press (New York)
2004 Extremes and Balances, Farfalla Press (Colorado)
2003 On Laughter: A Melodrama (with Lyn Hejinian), Baksun Books (Colorado)
2001 Red Car Goes By: Selected Poems 1955-2000, Tuumba Press (California)
2000 Sunflower (with Lyn Hejinian), The Figures (Massachusetts)
1999 POlEMicS (with Anselm Hollo & Anne Waldman), Autonomedia (New York)
1998 Dog Sonnets, Jensen-Daniels (New Jersey)
1997 Entering the City, Backwaters Press (Nebraska)
1996 Calluses of Poetry, (CD with Ken Bernstein), Treehouse Press (Colorado)
1996 The Task, Baksun Books (Colorado)
1996 Wicker (with Lyn Hejinian), Rodent Press (Colorado)
1995 What a Strange Way of Being Dead, Rodent Press (Colorado)
1992 8-Ball, (with illustrations by Donald Guravich), Dead Metaphor Press (Colorado)
1990 Arguing with Something Plato Said, Rocky Ledge Editions (Colorado)
1981 The Fox, United Artists (New York)
1977 Little Grand Island, the Press (Nebraska)
1976 Squirrel Tails, Lodestar Press (Colorado)
1974 Ice, Lodestar Press (Colorado)
1972 Blue Heron & IBC, Grosseteste Press (England)
1967 Wet, privately printed
1966 April, First Half, privately printed
Jack Collom is also the author of the following books on and of writing by children:
1998: Slow Flash of Light, Teachers & Writers Collaborative (New York)
1994: Poetry Everywhere (with Sheryl Noethe), Teachers & Writers Collaborative (New York)
1985 Moving Windows, Teachers & Writers Collaborative (New York)
Jack's poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including:
Hang Together, “Hanging Loose,” eds. and Press, 1987
Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970, Andrei Codrescu, ed., Four Walls Eight Windows, 1987
Nice to See You, Anne Waldman, ed., Coffee House Press, 1991
Out of This World, Anne Waldman, ed., Crown Publishers, 1991
Disembodied Poetics, Waldman & Schelling, eds., University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Tumblewords, William L. Fox, ed., University of Nevada Press, 1995
American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century, Codrescu & Rosenthal, eds., Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996
Festschrift for Jackson Mac Low, Levy & Harrison, eds., Crayon, 1997
Thus Spake the Corpse, Codrescu & Rosenthal, eds., Black Sparrow Press, 1999
Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry, Charles Potts, ed., Tsunami, Inc., 1998
Poems from Penny Lane, Gary Parrish, et al, eds., Farfalla Press, 2003
The Best American Poetry 2004, Lyn Hejinian, ed., Scribner, 2004
Selected Translations have appeared in:
Floating Bear, Diane di Prima, ed., 1966
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Salma Jayyus, ed., Columbia University Press, 1992
and others.
Mr. Collom's awards and grants include: the 2005 recipient of the Ann Levy Award for Artistic Excellence (CO) and in 2001 the Mayor of the city of Boulder, CO designated an official "Jack Collom Day"; several Boulder Arts Commission Grants for Poetry-in-the-Schools; the 2000 Tesser Award for Arts Collaboration and Performance, with musicians Ken Bernstein and Art Lande;
a 1998 SCFD (Colorado) award for poetry by children ; 1995 &1998 CO Visions Grants (with Ken Bernstein), poetry/music;
1995, 1996, and 1998 NEODATA Endowments (Boulder), poetry by children, poetry/music CD; 1995 Addison Mini-grant (Boulder), collaborative poetry book; 1994, 2005 NEODATA Endowment (Boulder), ecology poetry/performance by children; 1992, 1995, and 1997 Boulder Arts Commission, small press publication; 1991-2 NEODATA Endowment (Boulder), poetry/book publication (children); 1990 & 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, and 1966-77 CCLM grants for "the" poetry magazine.
Mr. Collom has given numerous poetry readings, including: Plenary Talk, Poetic Ecologies Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles; The Poetry Project, NY; The Poetry Center, SF; New College, SF; Northern Illinois Univ., Chicago;
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder; Naropa Institute (University), Boulder; Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins; Amerika Haus, Heidelberg, Germany; Schule für Dichtung in Wien & Hundertwasser Haus, Vienna, Austria; Distinguished Poet Series, Tacoma; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces; San Jose, Costa Rica; Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Flagstaff; Medicine Show, NY.
Mr. Collom received an MA in English, Lit.erature and a BA in English, both from the University of Colorado and an earlier BS degree in Forestry, Science and Arts from Colorado A&M. He has taught writing workshops at many venues, including the Poetry Project in NYC, the Steamboat Springs CO Writing Conference and currently at the Naropa University and at the Young Audiences & Aesthetic Arts Institute of Colorado. His former teaching positions include the University of Colorado, Metro State College in Denver, CO and City University of New York.
Mr. Collom is currently Adjunct Professor and Outreach Director, Writing and Poetics Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where he has taught Eco-Lit (Ecology Literature) for over ten years, and also teaches in the Poet-in-Schools program in Colorado, New York, Nebraska, Idaho and Wyoming.
You can read more about Mr. Collom's eco-poetics here
A review of his book, Exchanges of Earth and Sky at Jacket Magazine #33 online
Merida Faculty - January 2009: Mónica de la Torre
...Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City and moved to New York City in 1993.
Mónica is author of 3 books:
Public Domain, Roof Books, The Segue Foundation (New York, NY) 2008
Talk Shows, Switchback Books, (New York, NY) 2007
Acúfenos, Taller Ditoria, (Mexico City, MX) 2006
Other projects:
Co-Editor with Michael Wiegers and one of many translators, Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2002 (a multilingual anthology)
Editor and translator of the bilingual volume: Poems by Gerardo Deniz, Taller Ditoria (Mexico City, MX) 2000 and Lost Roads Press
Mónica de la Torre's work has appeared in the following literary journals, including: Art on Paper, BOMB, Bombay Gin, and Review: Latin American Literature and Arts.
Mónica is currently Senior Editor at BOMB Magazine. She taught at the 2007 Naropa Institute's Summer Workshops.
Ms. de la Torre holds a B.A. in Political Science from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), Mexico City, an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
You can read a poem or two of Mónica's here
Merida Faculty - January 2009: Forrest Gander
Photo: Berge
Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island.
Forrest Gander is the author of the following books of poetry:
Eye Against Eye, New Directions (New York, NY) 2005
Sound of Summer Running, with photographs by Ron Meeks, Nazraeli Press (Portland, OR & UK) 2005
The Blue Rock Collection, with drawings by Rikki Ducournet, Shoemaker & Hoard in the U.S. (Washington D.C.) also published
in England) 2004, 2005
Twelve X 12, with art by Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, The Netherlands, 2003
Torn Awake, New Directions (New York, NY) 2001
Science & Steepleflower, New Directions (New York, NY) 1998
Deeds of Utmost Kindness, Universrity Press of New England (Hanover, NH) 1994
Lynchburg, University of Pittsurgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA) 1993
Eggplants & Lotus Root, Burning Deck (Providence, RI) 1991
Rush To The Lake, Alice James Books (Cambridge, MA) 1988
Forrest is the author of a new novel: As a Friend, New Directions (New York, NY) 2008
Books authored by Forrest Gander and translated to other languages:
(Forrest's poems have been translated into half a dozen languages)
Zumba el Transcurrir: Poemas Escojidos, (Mexico)
Arrancado del Sueno), (Mexico)
Traduciendo a Sáenz y Otros Poemas, (Chile)
Twelve X 12:00, with art by Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, (The Netherlands) 2003
Other projects:
Translator: Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, New Directions (New York, NY) 2008
Translator, with Kent Johnson: The Night, poems by Bolivian poet Jaime Sáenz, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ) 2006
Editor and translations: Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico, edited and prefaced by Luis Cortés Bargalló, introduction by
Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books (Louisville, KY) 2006
Essays: A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory and Transcendance, Shoemaker and Hoard (Washington, D.C.) 2005
Translator, with Kent Johnson: Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Sáenz, University of California (Berkeley, CA) 2002
Translator: No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura López-Colomé, Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN) 2002
Editor: Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN) 1993
Poetry and Translation (with Carmen Boullosa) Wayland Collegium, Brown University (Providence, RI) 1992
Forrest Gander's poems appear in many literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Forrest has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry (1993, 1997), a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, awards from The Howard Foundation (2005) and The Whiting Foundation 'Writer's Award' (1997), a Pushcart Prize, a Pen Translation Fund Award in 2004, the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Award (from American Poetry Review) (1998). Forrest was an editor of Lost Roads Publishers with his wife, C.D. Wright, for 30 years.
Forrest holds degrees in both English literature and geology. He previously was Director of the Graduate Program of Literary Arts at Brown University, Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University, Visiting Professor at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Visiting Profsesor at The Burren School of Art in Ireland and Professor of English Literature at Providence College.
Mr. Gander has been a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University since 1999. He teaches courses on EcoPoetics, phenomenology and poetics, Asian-American poetries, Poetry/World/Mind, Latin American Poetry Live and Translation Theory & Practice.
“Forrest Gander is a Southern poet of a relatively hard kind, a restlessly experimental writer . . . . Be ready for a ride.”— Robert Hass
More about Forrest Gander
Eye Against Eye, New Directions (New York, NY) 2005
Sound of Summer Running, with photographs by Ron Meeks, Nazraeli Press (Portland, OR & UK) 2005
The Blue Rock Collection, with drawings by Rikki Ducournet, Shoemaker & Hoard in the U.S. (Washington D.C.) also published
in England) 2004, 2005
Twelve X 12, with art by Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, The Netherlands, 2003
Torn Awake, New Directions (New York, NY) 2001
Science & Steepleflower, New Directions (New York, NY) 1998
Deeds of Utmost Kindness, Universrity Press of New England (Hanover, NH) 1994
Lynchburg, University of Pittsurgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA) 1993
Eggplants & Lotus Root, Burning Deck (Providence, RI) 1991
Rush To The Lake, Alice James Books (Cambridge, MA) 1988
Forrest is the author of a new novel: As a Friend, New Directions (New York, NY) 2008
Books authored by Forrest Gander and translated to other languages:
(Forrest's poems have been translated into half a dozen languages)
Zumba el Transcurrir: Poemas Escojidos, (Mexico)
Arrancado del Sueno), (Mexico)
Traduciendo a Sáenz y Otros Poemas, (Chile)
Twelve X 12:00, with art by Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, (The Netherlands) 2003
Other projects:
Translator: Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, New Directions (New York, NY) 2008
Translator, with Kent Johnson: The Night, poems by Bolivian poet Jaime Sáenz, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ) 2006
Editor and translations: Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico, edited and prefaced by Luis Cortés Bargalló, introduction by
Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books (Louisville, KY) 2006
Essays: A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory and Transcendance, Shoemaker and Hoard (Washington, D.C.) 2005
Translator, with Kent Johnson: Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Sáenz, University of California (Berkeley, CA) 2002
Translator: No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura López-Colomé, Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN) 2002
Editor: Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN) 1993
Poetry and Translation (with Carmen Boullosa) Wayland Collegium, Brown University (Providence, RI) 1992
Forrest Gander's poems appear in many literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Forrest has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry (1993, 1997), a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, awards from The Howard Foundation (2005) and The Whiting Foundation 'Writer's Award' (1997), a Pushcart Prize, a Pen Translation Fund Award in 2004, the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Award (from American Poetry Review) (1998). Forrest was an editor of Lost Roads Publishers with his wife, C.D. Wright, for 30 years.
Forrest holds degrees in both English literature and geology. He previously was Director of the Graduate Program of Literary Arts at Brown University, Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University, Visiting Professor at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Visiting Profsesor at The Burren School of Art in Ireland and Professor of English Literature at Providence College.
Mr. Gander has been a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University since 1999. He teaches courses on EcoPoetics, phenomenology and poetics, Asian-American poetries, Poetry/World/Mind, Latin American Poetry Live and Translation Theory & Practice.
“Forrest Gander is a Southern poet of a relatively hard kind, a restlessly experimental writer . . . . Be ready for a ride.”— Robert Hass
More about Forrest Gander
More about Forrest Gander at the Poetry Foundatdion website
Merida Faculty - January 2009: Jonathan Harrington
In addition to eight books, Jonathan Harrington has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in everything from the New York Times to the Texas Review. He received a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1983. In 1989 he edited New Visions: Fiction by Florida Writers. Tropical Son appeared monthly in Metro Magazine and won the coveted Gold “Charlie” Award for best column of the year from the Florida Magazine Assoc. in 1990. In 1992, twenty-six of these essays were collected in Tropical Son: Essays on the Nature of Florida, and published to wide critical acclaim. After working as an editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and teaching Creative Writing for ten years at the University of Central Florida, Jonathan moved to New York City in 1993. In the next ten years he published a series of highly popular mystery novels: The Death of Cousin Rose, The Second Sorrowful Mystery, A Great Day for Dying, St. Valentine’s Diamond and Death on the Southwest Chief. The books appeared in hardback, paperback and book-club editions. Jonathan has published a chapbook of poems, Handcuffed to the Jukebox, and his poetry has appeared in Poetry East, Texas Review, Main Street Rag, Pebble Lake Review, The Shop (Ireland), Green River Review, Black Bear Review, Kentucky Poetry Review, South Florida Poetry Review, The Spectator, English Journal, Skylight, and countless other publications as well being featured on public radio. He has one son, Trevor. Jonathan lives on the Hacienda San Antonio Xpakay near Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
Merida Featured Reading - January 2009: Coral Bracho
Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951.
Coral Bracho is the author of the following books of poetry:
Firefly Under The Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, translated to English by poet Forrest GanderNew Directions
(New York, NY) 2008
Cuarto de Hotel ("Hotel Room"), Ediciones Era S.A. de C.V. 2007
Huellas de Luz ("Tracks of Light"), another reissue of Peces de Piel Fugaz, Ediciones Era S.A. de C.V. 2006
Ese Espacio, Ese Jardin ("That Space, That Garden"), Ediciones Era 2003
Trait du Temps/Trazo del Tiempo, (Brushstrokes of Time) translated to French by Dominique Soucy, Ecrits des Forges 2001
Watersilks, Poetry Ireland (Dublin, Ireland) 1999, translated to English
Of Their Eyes as Crystalline Sand, translated to English by poet Forrest Gander, Duration Press 1999
La Voluntad del Ambar ("The Disposition of Amber"), Ediciones Era S.A. de C.V. 1998
Huellas de Luz ("Tracks of Light") (1994) a reissue of her first book of poems - Peces de Piel Fugaz
Tierra de Entrana Ardiente, ("Earth's Smoldering Core") in collaboration with artist Irma Palacios 1992
Bajo el Destello Liquido: Poesia 1977- 1981 ("Under the Scintillant Liquid") 1988
El Ser Que Va a Morir ("That Being That is Going To Die") 1981 (considered a groundbreaking and enormously important book of
poetry in Mexico
Peces de Piel Fugaz ("Fish of Fleeting Skin") 1977
Coral Bracho's translated poems are included in the following anthologies:
Líneas Conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos (Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico), ed. Luis Cortes Bargallo and
Forrest Gander as translation editor, Sarabande Books (Louisville, KY) 2006
Reversible Monuments: An Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Poetry, eds. Monica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers, Copper
Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA) 2002
Medusario: Muestrade Poesia Latinoamericano/a, (A Sampling of Latin American Writing), eds. Roberto Echaverren, Jose Kozer and
Jacobo Safami, Fondo De Cultura Economico USA, 1996, an anthology of contemporary neo-baroque writing from Latin America
Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, ed. Forrest Gander, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN) 1993
Other:
A donde fue el Ciempies?, Illustrations by Rafael Parajas, Ediciones Era S.A. de C.V. 2007, poetry for children
Jardin del Mar, Illustrations by Gerardo Suzan, 1993, poetry for children
Coral's poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, Conjunctions, The Nation, Poetry International and other literary journals, anthologies and periodicals worldwide. Her poems were translated by Tom Boll and poet Katherine Pierpoint for the Poetry Translation Center's 2005 World Poets' Tour.
An Introduction of Coral Bracho by Forrest Gander is here
A translation of a Coral Bracho poem by Forrest Gander, with notes is here
More about Coral Bracho in an article written by Alan Gilbert at the Poetry Foundation website
More info about Coral and several translations of poems at the Poetry Translation Center PoetryTranslation.org
and an audio recording of Coral reading Agua de Bordes Lubricos at the Poetry Translation Center site is here
In 1981, Coral Bracho received the Premio Nacional de Poesia de Casa de la Cultura de Aguascalientes award for her book, El Ser Que Va a Morir. In 2000, Coral received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2004, she received the Prize Xavier Villaurrutia for her book, Ese Espacio, Ese Jardin. Coral Bracho is also a translator and holds a doctorate in literature.
Ms. Bracho currently teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.An Introduction of Coral Bracho by Forrest Gander is here
A translation of a Coral Bracho poem by Forrest Gander, with notes is here
More about Coral Bracho in an article written by Alan Gilbert at the Poetry Foundation website
More info about Coral and several translations of poems at the Poetry Translation Center PoetryTranslation.org
and an audio recording of Coral reading Agua de Bordes Lubricos at the Poetry Translation Center site is here
Merida Featured Reading - January 2009 & 2010: Briceida Cuevas Cob
Photo: Pieter VandermeerBriceida Cuevas Cob was born in 1969 in Tepakan, Calkiní, in the province of Campeche on the Yucatán Peninsula. She writes in both Yucatec Maya and Spanish languages.
Briceida is the author of one book of poetry:
U yok´ol auat pek´ ti´ u kuxtal pek (The Lament of The Dog In Its Existence), Casa Internacional del Escritor, (Bacalar,
Quintana Roo, Mexico) 1995
Her poetry has appeared several anthologies:
Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos, Antologia de Escritores Actuales en Lengues Indigenas de Mexico, Tomo Dos: Poesia (Words of
the True Peoples: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers, Volume 2: Poetry), eds. Carlos Montemayor
and Donald FrischmannTexas University Press 2005
Je Bix K'iin (Como el sol, "Like the Sun"), INI (Instituto Nacional Indigenista - now CDI-Comision para del Desarollo de los Pueblas
Indigenas de Mexico), Rockefeller Foundation, Letras Mayas Contemporáneas, Tercera Series 1, 1998
Tumbén Ik ´t´anil ich Maya´ T´an (Modern Poetry in the Maya Language), (Valencia, Spain) 1994
Flor y Canto (Flower and Song), the INI and Unesco, (Tabasco, Mexico) 1993. Includes work by five indigenous poets from the south
And one book about the daily life of a Maya woman:
Je Bix K'iin (Como el sol, "Like the Sun"), INI (Instituto Nacional Indigenista - now CDI-Comision para del Desarollo de los Pueblas
Indigenas de Mexico) (1998) Rockefeller Foundation, Letras Mayas Contemporaneas, Series 3
Briceida's poetry has been published in several literary magazines and newspapers in Quitana Roo, Campeche, Yucatán and Mexico City.
Ms. Cuevas Cob has been a member of the literary group Génali since 1992. She participated in the Poetry Workshops in Mayan Tongue at the arts center of Calkiní, coordinated by Waldemar Noh Tzec, from 1992 to 1994. In 1996, Briceida received a scholarship from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes para Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas (Mexico's National Fund for the Culture and the Arts for Writers in Indigenous Languages). She is a founding member of the Asociación de Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas (Association of Writers in Indigenous Languages) in Mexico. She currently serves as their secretary for professional education.
In 2002, Briceida Cuevas Cob took part in the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. She has also had the opportunity to participate in conferences and symposiums on indigenous language and literature in Spain, France, United States and Mexico. She has given extensive readings worldwide, including Harvard University and a night of contemporary indigenous Mexican poetry at both the Guggenheim Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.
And one of her poems here
Merida Featured Reading - January 2009: Valerie Mejer
Poet, painter, and essayist Valerie Mejer was born in 1966 in Mexico City.
Valerie Mejer is the author of the following of poetry:
De Elefante a Elefante, for which she was awarded the International Award “Gerardo Diego 1966” by the Spanish Government
Geografías de Niebla, Editorial El Tucán de Virginia, (México) 2008
Esta Novela Azul, Editorial El Tucán de Virginia, (México) 2004
Ante el Ojo del Cíclope, Ed Tierra Adentro, (México), 2000
Valerie Mejer's poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including:
El Corazón Prestado, Antología de Poesía de Tema Prehispánico
El Manatial Latente, Muestra de poesía mexicana desde el ahora: 1986-2002
Valerie has translated the following works:
Charles Wright's Apalachia/Apalaquia (in collaboration with E. M. Test)
Forrest Gander's Torn Awake/Arrancado del Sueño
Pascal Petit's The Zoo Father/ El Padre Zoológico (all published by El Tucán de Virginia Press)
and is currently working on translations of Australian poet Les Murray
Her poems in English have appeared in England in Poetry London and in the United States in Hunger Mountain Review and in Translations. Valerie discovered painting during her travels, during which she created collections of works called visual journals.
In 1996 she received the Critics Award in Mexico City for her design work for a play. She has shown her work mainly in museums, including the Museo Goitia in Zacatecas and La Casa de la Cultura de Italia in Mexico City.
Valerie Mejer has twice been the recipient of grants from FONCA (Jóvenes Creadores). Recently she received a grant from Sistema Estatal de Creadores from the state of Guanajuato to translate the Australian poet Les Murray.
As a poet, Valerie has created visual works for other poets, such as the one recently published in France in the book L’Imperfection de la Lune by Antonio Prete. She is also owner of the Valerie Mejer Estudio/Galeria at Fábrica la Aurora Centro de Arte y Diseño in San Miguel de Allende.
In 1996 she received the Critics Award in Mexico City for her design work for a play. She has shown her work mainly in museums, including the Museo Goitia in Zacatecas and La Casa de la Cultura de Italia in Mexico City.
Valerie Mejer has twice been the recipient of grants from FONCA (Jóvenes Creadores). Recently she received a grant from Sistema Estatal de Creadores from the state of Guanajuato to translate the Australian poet Les Murray.
As a poet, Valerie has created visual works for other poets, such as the one recently published in France in the book L’Imperfection de la Lune by Antonio Prete. She is also owner of the Valerie Mejer Estudio/Galeria at Fábrica la Aurora Centro de Arte y Diseño in San Miguel de Allende.