by Erica Mena
A poet I’ve had the pleasure of working with and translating just won the Premio Nacional de Literatura in his native Dominican Republic. Yay! If you’d like to read some of his work in my English translation: Deus ex machina (at Words Without Borders) Four poems (at Asymptote)
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dominican Republic, José Mármol, poet, premio nacional de literatura, translation
by Erica Mena
Well, it’s been a while. I moved, twice, landing in Providence, where I’m happily reading and writing away towards an MFA in poetry at Brown. So I think the tenor of this is exploration is going to shift a little for me. I’m still deeply engaged in translation (I have some new translation work out in Words Without Borders – stunning short story by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón I’ve translated as Life in Flames), that will be apparent. And I’m still invested in […]
Categories: Poetry, Publishing, Translation • Tags: Anomalous, Anomalous Press, brown, erica mena, MFA, poet, poetry, Pushcart, pushcart rankings
by Erica Mena
Some years ago when I was an undergraduate just beginning to think seriously about poetry, I met Adrienne Rich. In fact, I picked her up from her hotel and drove her through downtown Boston to the UMass Boston campus for her lecture. It was my mentor and friend Askold Melnyczuk who was coordinating the reading series, and though I’d just met him that semester in his introduction to fiction writing class, he saw in me enough poetic promise to send […]
Categories: Poetry • Tags: adrienne rich, askold melnyczuk, Diving Into The Wreck, essays, feminist, Fox, Martín Espada, poet, poetry, UMass Boston
Erica Mena