Xánath Caraza
Back
in February I posted a comment in which I provided some context for the
creation of the Spanish-language column, “US Latino poets en español,” which
appears in the online poetry journal, Periódico de Poesía, founded and directed
by Mexican poet, Pedro Serrano.
We have
reached the half-way mark in terms of the first year of the column—that is:
five of the ten projected columns have been posted. I say “we,” but that’s something
of a misnomer: the lion’s share of the credit goes to Xánath Caraza, who has
actually been producing the
column. Credit for the concept
belongs to Serrano who, as I mentioned in my post on February 11, went out of
his way to attend two flagship Letras Latinas events in DC over a year ago: installment 2 of Latino/a Poetry Now
at Georgetown University, and an event at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
It
was at these two aforementioned events that the project was pitched (by
Serrano) and later sealed. Letras Latinas’ role, in the first year of the
column, has been mostly “co-curatorial.” So,
for those of you who can read Spanish and would like a flavor of how five of
our poets look and sound en español, here are some pics and links, in reverse
order:
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The remaining poets to be translated and profiled
in 2013, in no particular order, are:
Raina J. León
Raina J. León
Victor
Hernández Cruz
Rigoberto
González
John
Murillo
Lorna Dee Cervantes
2 comments:
Great work to make our poetry accessible! felicidades Francisco and Xanath!
Great work! Felicidades Xanath and Francisco...
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