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“Ode to the Resurrection of Mayahuel” Brenda Vaca. “ Somos Xicanas .” ...
No NamesBy Greg HewettCoffee House PressA poet writing prose about music? Greg Hewett knew he was taking on a challenge.
A Venezuelan poet who came to Chicago on a student visa over a decade ago is left in an uncomfortable state of limbo due a string of President Trump’s immigration mandates and court challenge… ...
Her life was an extraordinary mix of broadcasting, children’s storytelling, poetry, playwriting, and sport. She captured human experience through the eyes of the young, as seen in her timeless ...
Unlike most other authors, Guereca got his start writing while detained in a solitary confinement cell in Cook County Jail, where he spent 23 hours a day without space to move, fresh air and sunlight.
My work has also extended to Spanish poets such as Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jimñenez, García Lorca, Vicente Alexandre, and Rafael Alberti, as well as anthologies like Golden Age Poetry and ...
The Chinese rendition of this wandering Gaucho bard was warmly received in his homeland, marking the beginning of my lifelong dedication to Spanish-Latin American poetry.
Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah will be the city’s fourth poet laureate, Mayor Michelle Wu and the city's Office of Arts and Culture announced Thursday. Oppong-Yeboah, who uses he/they pronouns, will ...
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, writer. Milano, Italy, September 6, 2008. Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images. A man sits at a dark wooden table in a bar in the old city of Montevideo ...
Her debut novel, “This is the Year,” is out and an early January book launch party at St. Pete’s Tombolo Books has drawn a crowd of more than 100. St. Pete’s first Latin poet laureate, Muñoz is a ...
Catullus introduces her into his poetry early, and the unhappy and increasingly one-sided relationship forms the book’s dramatic core and narrative arc—a quite radical move in Latin poetry ...