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Called
"the Latino poet of his generation," Martín Espada's
seventh collection, Alabanza: New and Selected
Poems (1982-2002) was published by Norton in 2003,
received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Acheivement
and was named an American Library Association Notable
Book of the year. An earlier collection
of Espada's work, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton),
won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the editor
of Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination
from Curbstone Press.
Yusef
Komunyakaa's numerous books of poems include
Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999
(Wesleyan University Press); Talking Dirty to the
Gods (2000); Thieves of Paradise (1998),
which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle
Award; Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989
(1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize
and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and others. His
honors include the William Faulkner Prize from the Université
de Rennes, and the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam,
where he served as a correspondent and managing editor
of the Southern Cross.
Raúl
Zurita has published several books including Purgatorio
(1979), Anteparaíso (1982), El paraíso
está vacío (1984), Canto a su amor desaparecido
(1985), El amor de Chile (1987), Canto de
los ríos que se aman (1993) y La vida nueva (1994).
He was the former poet laureate of Chile.
Cecilia
Vicuña is the author of fourteen poetry books, published
in Europe, Latin America and the US. She has recently
exhibited her work at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Belgium,
at the Castello di Rivoli in Italy, and in the l997
Whitney Biennial. Her book Instan appeared from
Berkeley’s Kelsey St. Press this year, and earlier titles
include El Templo (translated by Rosa Alcalá,
Situations, 2001) and QUIPOem/ The Precarious, The
Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña (edited by M. Catherine
de Zegher, translated by Esther Allen, Wesleyan University
Press, l997). Vicuña is currently co-editing the anthology
500 Years of Latin American Poetry for Oxford University
Press.
Mark
Doty is the author of six books of poems, including
Atlantis (1995), which received the Ambassador
Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary
Award; My Alexandria (1993), chosen by Philip
Levine for the National Poetry Series, which won the
National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T.
S. Eliot Prize, and was also a National Book Award finalist.
Marie
Ponsot has published numerous works, including Springing
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); The Bird Catcher (1998),
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and
was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize;
and others. Among her awards are a creative writing
grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy
Medal of the Modern Language Association. Marie Ponsot
teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia
University in New York City.
Cristóbal
Bianchi received the Pablo Neruda Creative Writing
Scholarship and was selected by the Valparaíso University
in the annual
all-arts contest, and by the 2nd version of experimental
poetry contest in Badajoz-Spain. He is the author of
a poetry book, El Oscuro Trigo de mi Boca (My
mouth´s dark wheat) and an active member of the
Casagrande group. He plays bass for the rock band "Los
Muebles", in charge of the soundtrack for the motion
picture "leyenda del vaquero chileno (Legend of the
Chilean Cowboy).
Idra
Novey's poetry and translations have appeared in
various journals, including Washington Square, Circumference,
Poetry International, The Literary Review, and Rattapallax,
where she is an editor. A recent recipient of a grant
from the PEN Translation Fund, she is at work on a translated
collection of poems by Brazilian writer Paulo Henriques
Britto. Novey currently teaches writing at Columbia
University.
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