Category: Summer 2009 Poet
Susan Sherman
is the founding editor of IKON magazine. She has had twelve plays produced off–off–Broadway and published four collections of
Sergio Ramírez
born in Masatepe, Nicaragua in 1942, Ramírez was Vice President of Nicaragua during the Sandinista regime and later a member of Parliament, until
Paul Pines
is the author of the novel, The Tin Angel (Wm. Morrow, 1983) and the memoir, My Brother’s Madness (Curbstone, 2007). His seventh book of poems,
Juan Daniel Perrotta
was born in Argentina in 1953. He is a poet and a writer. Most of his work can be founded in Spanish on the Internet.
Sam Hamill
is the author of fourteen books of poetry, three collections of essays, and two–dozen volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin,
George Evans
is the author of five books of poetry published in the United States and England, including The New World (Curbstone Press) and Sudden Dreams
Martín Espada
has published sixteen books as a poet, editor, and translator, including The Republic of Poetry (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Alabanza:
Ernesto Cardenal
was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He is a Revolutionary activist, disciple of Thomas Merton, Roman Catholic priest, ambassador for the
Jorge Boccanera
lived in exile in Mexico from 1976 until the fall of the dictatorship, when he returned to Argentina. In 1976 he won the esteemed “Casa de las
Gioconda Belli
is one of Nicaragua’s most highly regarded writers. Her first novel, La Mujer Habitada, sold over 500,000 copies in Germany. The Inhabited Woman