Poetry 2021

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This year the Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2021 (poetryny.com) celebrates its 8th edition with a hyflex format allowing for...

José de la Rosa —Dominican Rep.—

José Miguel de la Rosa (1955-2019) A great Dominican writer and a great human being. His literary work (poetry, theatre, short stories)...

Akram Alkatreb —Syria/USA —

Akram Alkatreb: Syria – USA: was born and raised in Salamiah, Syria; a city renowned for its poets. He attended the University of...

Armando Romero —Colombia / USA—

Armando Romero (Colombia, 1944) is a poet, novelist, and scholar who was active in the avant-garde movement El nadaismo during the 1960s...

Tomás Modesto Galán —Dominican Rep. / USA—

Tomás Modesto Galán is a Dominican writer and cultural activist. It is part of the board of the Bronx Hispanic Festival. Since 2018 he is...

Margarita Drago —Argentina—

Margarita Drago (Argentina). Professor of Spanish and Literature in the City University of New York, poet and narrator. She is the author...

Juana M. Ramos —El Salvador / USA—

Juana M. Ramos was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, and currently lives in New York City where she is a professor of Spanish and...

Santiago García-Castañón —Spain—

Santiago García-Castañón (Ph.D. University of Illinois) is a native of Avilés, Spain. He is a Professor of Spanish Literature at Western...

Gladys Montolio —Dominican Rep.—

Gladys Maria Montolio was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Montolio is the founder and president of The Latin American Cultural...

Alex Lima —Ecuador / USA—

ALEX LIMA (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1975) moved to Brooklyn at the age of 15. He is the author of five poetry collections, Mesa de contentos...

Mateo Morrison —Dominican Rep.—

Mateo Morrison (Santo Domingo, 1946). Dominican writer, lawyer, poet, and essayist. In the late 1970s, he founded the Cesar Vallejo...

Carolina Sánchez —Colombia—

Carolina Sánchez is a Colombian writer, researcher, and editor living in New Jersey. She has a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Literary...

Elaine Nadal —USA—

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominee, Elaine Nadal is the author of two poetry chapbooks: When and Sweat, Dance, Sing, Cut,...

Michael Freeman —USA—

Michael Freeman is a dramatist and poet. His work-in-progress is a semi-memoir on the subject of suicidal ideation. He will be...

Elizabeth Lara —USA—

Elizabeth Lara’s poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Mom Egg Review; Nasty Women Poets: An...

Kerianne Marie —USA—

Kerianne Marie is a writer and artist from New York. Her work primarily focuses on: dreams, surrealism, meditation, and nature. In 2019...

Jennifer Rathbun —USA—

As a translator, Jennifer Rathbun has translated and published complete poetic works by Mexican poets Alberto Blanco, Fernando Carrera,...

Gustavo Gac-Artigas —Chile—

Chilean writer, poet, playwright, who lives in the U.S. after twelve years in exile in Paris, followed by a failed attempt to return to...

David Mills —USA—

Mr. Mills holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He’s published four collections: The Dream Detective, The Sudden Country, After Mistic...

Mónica Lucía Suárez Beltrán —Colombia—

Mónica Lucía Suárez Beltrán. Bogotá, Colombia. Professional in literary studies and master’s degree in education from Universidad...