For poet and translator Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, writing in Spanish has allowed him to “communicate with a deeper sense of self.” In “The Life Assignment,” Maldonado, who was born and ...

The Academy of American Poets will be led by a Latino for the first time Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the almost-90-year-old academy's executive director and president.

The Academy of American Poets announced Wednesday that poet and translator Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will be its next executive director and president. The academy, founded in 1934, is one of the ...

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado’s “The Life Assignment” aims to put words to the hard-to-describe feeling of displacement, examining the dissonance between Maldonado’s home of Puerto Rico and ...

Maldonado, the first Latinx appointee to helm the Academy, was previously codirector of 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center. He will begin his new role on July 17.