About this episode
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez (Tupelo Press). Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, and many others. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo and MacDowell. She serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal, and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee.
Delmira Agustini is considered one of the most important South American poets of the 20th century. She was born to upper-middle-class parents in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of 1886. She began writing poetry at the age of 10, and her first major work, El Libro Blanco, was published in 1907, when she was just 20 years old. She went on to publish several other books that were well-received by writers and critics.
Links:
Read "Still Life," "Houston," and "Landscape with Graceland Crumbling in My Hands"
Read "Explosión" in Spanish and English
Iliana Rocha
Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website
"The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez" in New York Times Magazine
"Mexican American Sonnet" at Poets.org
"Three Poems" in Latin American Literature Today
Delmira Agustini
Bio and "The Vampire" at Poets.org
Six Poems by Delmira Agustini (translated by Valerie Martinez) at Drunken Boat
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