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Poetry Workshops in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico January 2-9, 2010
U.S. Poets in Mexico to host their second event in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico this coming January 2-9, 2010 featuring a renowned faculty of poets, readings, Spanish lessons, thrilling day trips to Mayan archaeological sites and generally a great time for all!
DEADLINE: Our Merida Fellowship Award DEADLINE is November 1st. Visit our website for more information on entering to win free tuition, day trips and Spanish lessons! U.S. Poets in Mexico Website
U.S. Poets in Mexico holds thought-provoking workshops featuring renowned (and a few emerging) American and Mexican poets, readings every night of the week, and inspirational discourse in a community of like-minded writing professionals for one week each year in Merida, on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Thrilling day trips Mayan archaeological sites, ecological sites and a working hacienda (come swim in an ancient cenote where over 6,000 Mayan sacrificial objects have been found and another cenote near Chichen Itza which was the cooling off place for Mayan kings and their courtesans, it's amazing!).
Take Spanish lessons while in Mexico, can't get better than that...!
And, generally a great time for all is guaranteed!
Check out the testimonials on our website. Many awesome poets from last year are coming back for more this January!
Get up close and poetic with some amazing poets in an intimate workshop environment with no more than 8 persons:
This year we will have Anne Waldman (Anne, along with Allen Ginsberg and others) founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's famous Summer Writing Program. Anne has published more than 40 books of poetry. Anne's poems can be found in countless anthologies, in films and video and numerous audio recordings. She has collaborated with an astronomical number of artists such as, Elizabeth Murray and George Schneeman, musician Don Cherry and dancer Douglas Dunn. As a poet, performer, cultural/political activist, professor, collaborator and scholar - Anne's unique voice and mind promises to add some excitement to our workshops.
Mark Doty will also be joining us. Mark won the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry for his book of poems, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, HarperCollins (2008). Mark has published nine books of poetry as well as four books of non-fiction prose, which include his endearing and widely acclaimed, Dog Years, HarperCollins (2007). His work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K. Don't miss this chance to experience an intimate workshop with Mark.
Martín Espada has been dubbed by Sandra Cisneros as "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors." Martín has published seventeen books in all as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. Martín Espada has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Antonia Pantoja Award, the Charity Randall Citation, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the Premio Fronterizo, two NEA Fellowships, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Martín will have some excellent writing exercises and words of wisdom regarding Pablo Neruda!
Pedro Serrano will be conducting workshops. Pedro is a very cool poet from Mexico City where he is the Editor of UNAM's excellent poetry ezine: Periodico de Poesia. Pedro is the author of 6 books of poetry and his poems can be found in several important anthologies of contemporary Mexican poets. Pedro has taught classes in Poetry and Philosophy on the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Mexico. He holds a doctorate in Spanish literature and is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.
Cassandra Tribe, a performance poet whose cd Angel won the 2009 Grindie for best Independent Artist (Spoken Word) will be on hand. You really should check out some of Cassandra's videos on YouTube, like Philemon,,,they are inspiring and have some comparing Cassandra's filmaking to that of Maya Deren!
We will have several Mexican poets visiting to give readings and 2 will hold a workshop as well:
Briceida Cuevas Cob is a Maya language poet from Campeche, she is sooooo amazing, pretty hip as her surprising translations in English by Jonathan Harrington will prove. Briceida has participated in symposiums about indigenous languages at Harvard and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, as well as many national venues.
José Vicente Anaya is a distinguished poet from Mexico City, who along with having published over 20 books, has translated the likes of Henry Miller, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg and more. He is also Editor of Circulo de Poesia, an online literary journal for poets, academics and critics. José will teach a 2-hour workshop mostly in Spanish, as well. José has also been awarded the Premio Plural de Poesia, an award that is selected from poets of all Spanish speaking countries.
Pura López Colomé will be on hand for a reading and a 2-hour workshop mostly in English. Pura is a wonderful poet. She has published over 16 books of poetry and a mind-boggling number of translations of works by Seamus Heaney, Louise Gluck, Frank O'Hara and many, many more...She is also the recipient of Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, in 2007!
DEADLINE: Our Merida Fellowship Award DEADLINE is November 1st. Visit our website for more information on entering to win free tuition, day trips and Spanish lessons!
We hope to see you there! Guaranteed camaraderie and inspiration!
U.S. Poets in Mexico Website
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