Poetry 2018

Mexican Ph.D. and DACA Recipient Rossy Evelin Lima Distinguished with 2018 Poet of the Year Award by

On Friday Oct. 12, during the closing ceremony at Instituto Cervantes in New York, the organizers of The Americas Poetry Festival 2018...

Susana H. Case -USA-

Susana H. Case is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Erasure, Syria, from Recto y Verso Editions, and Drugstore Blue, from...

María Helena Barrera-Agarwal -Ecuador-

Comunión (In memoriam Fr. Mychal Judge) Era noche cerrada. Bajo un velo Memorias se mecían en la ría; La cuidad se batía con el sueño, ...

Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez

of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise Home; a place to rest your feet, a place where you can sleep. Man, a place...

Angel Antonio Ruiz Laboy -Puerto Rico-

animal ajeno el cuerpo siempre es un animal ajeno transitando en fuga hacia la luz desde el camino de la tierra desde la narración del...

Nancy Mercado -USA/Puerto Rico-

Epilogue for the 21st Century And the demon took possession of the nation Leading it by the nose in circles Engaging in topsy-turvy talk...

Marisa Russo -Argentina-

Marisa Russo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Poet, editor, and cultural liaison. She studied a Master and Bachelor’s in Spanish and...

Maryam Alikhani -Iran / USA-

Maryam Alikhani, Ph.D., graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University in May 2018. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing for...

Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn -Colombia/USA-

Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn was born and raised in Colombia. She earned a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from The CUNY Graduate Center and...

Sasha Reiter -USA-

Sasha Reiter was born in New York City in 1996. He grew up in the Bronx, where as the son of an Argentinian father and a Peruvian mother,...

Deidamia Galan -Dominican Republic-

Oda a tus manos I Hay una inmensidad escondida en tus manos que me recuerda las ciudades desnudas donde se quedaron huérfanos los...

Isaac Goldemberg -Peru-

Isaac Goldemberg (Chepén, Peru, 1945), has lived in New York since 1964. He has published four novels, twelve books of poetry, two books...

Carlos Satizábal -Colombia-

Carlos Satizábal is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the current director of its MA in Creative...

Juan Armando Rojas Joo -Mexico-

callejón nocturno I aquí donde se funda la marea se invierte el mundo en la alcoba luna y sol se aman el velo de la aurora los protege...

Ana Guillot -Argentina-

Ana Guillot was born in Buenos Aires. She has taught Language and Literature in secondary schools and universities. She manages the...

Francisco X. Fernández Naval -Spain (Galicia)-

Francisco X. Fernández Naval (Ourense, 1956) is a poet and writer in Galician who has been translated into other languages, notably...

Indran Amirthanayagam -Sri Lanka / USA-

Indran Amirthanayagam writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published thirteen poetry collections...

Manuel Iris -Mexico/USA-

Manuel Iris (1983). Mexican Poet and an educator recently named Poet Laureate of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio. Iris received the National...

Edward van de Vendel -Netherlands-

Edward van de Vendel mostly writes books for young adults and children. His work includes poetry, song lyrics, fiction, picture books and...

Rossy Evelin Lima -Mexico-

Hacia el sur En la frontera hay letreros que señalan con una flecha hacia dónde está México: hacia el sur. Yo siempre corro a ponerme...