ABOUT DREAMING AMERICA:
The unprecedented bilingual-Spanish poetry anthology, Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention, shares poetry from teens living in isolation cells in the most restrictive maximum-security detention center in the US for undocumented, unaccompanied youth. All proceeds from its sale go to a legal defense fund for the children, who are denied Constitutional protection, including the right to an attorney. Already the book has been turned into two original plays, and its poetry has been set to original music by two different, acclaimed composers to raise funds and awareness. To purchase the book, please click here
ABOUT LILIANA ANCALAO:
Liliana Ancalao (b.1961) is a leading Mapuche poet. She was born in Puel Mapu, the ancient Mapuche lands that are also known since 1853 as the Republic of Argentina. A selection of Liliana’s poetry from the past thirty-plus years comprises her trilingual anthology, Women of the Big Sky. Importantly, it is the first single-author book of poetry in English-language translation by a female Mapuche writer from territorial Argentina. Ancalao has published the books of poetry Tejido con lana cruda and Mujeres a la intemperie-pu zomo wekuntu mew, as well as a book of essays and poetry titled Resuello-neyen. She has been widely anthologized both within and beyond Argentina in books on Mapuche poetry, Argentine poetry, and indigenous poetry. Besides being an esteemed poet and oral historian, she also works with the Mapuche community group Ñamkulawen to protect and advance Mapuche culture, including the reclamation of Mapuzungun. To purchase the book, please click here
A SECOND TRILINGUAL COLLECTION WITH LILIANA ANCALAO
This unprecedented, single-author book by the great poet from Puel Mapu includes not only poetry, but also essays of testimonio. To purchase the book, please click here
THE-GHETTO-book-cover-high-res2 ABOUT TAMARA KAMENSZAIN:
The Argentine poet Tamara Kamenszain is a prolific author. Her many works include El texto silencioso, Tradición y vanguardia en la poesía sudamericana, La casa grande, Vida de living, La edad de la poesía, Tango bar, and Solos y solas. Kamenszain has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal, and numerous other international poetry awards. To purchase the book, please click here
ABOUT MELISA MACHADO:
Melisa Machado was born in Durazno, Uruguay, in 1966. She currently lives in Montevideo, where she works as a journalist, writer, art critic, and therapist. Her books of poetry include Ritual de las Primicias (1994), El lodo de la Estirpe (2005), Adarga (2000), Jamba de Flores Negras (2006), Marjal o Animal (2008), Rituales (2011), and El Canto Rojo (2013), which was published in translation in Italian in 2014 and Swedish in 2015. To purchase the book, please click here
ABOUT ZULEMA MORET:
Originally from Argentina and currently living in the United States after many years in Spain, Zulema Moret is the author of the poetry collections Cuaderno de viaje solitario (Contrapunto, 1985), Cazadora de Sueños (Torremozas, 2003) Un ángel al borde del volcán ardiendo (Vox, 2007), Lo gris (Vox, 2012), Poesía reunida (ArtePoética Press, 2014), and Poemas del desastre (Torremozas, 2015). Her poetry has been translated into English, German, French and Italian, and she has read her literary work at conferences and festivals around the world, including those in Austria, Budapest, Chile, France, India, Mexico, Spain, the United States, and Venezuela. She is Professor of Latin American Literature in Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA.
ABOUT VICTORIA ESTOL:
Victoria Estol was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1983. Her poetry has earned a commendation from National Pablo Neruda Competition for Young Poets, and it is featured in the anthologies Cualquiercosario (2013), co-edited between Uruguay (Yaugurú) and Spain (Libros de la imperdible), and Fixture (2014), co-edited by the Argentine publishers Chuy and Malaletra. Her poetry also has appeared in a diversity of international journals. Bicho Bola (Yaugurú, 2013) is her first full-length book of poetry.To purchase the book, please click here
ABOUT RATI SAXENA:
The Indian poet Rati Saxena is also an accomplished translator, Vedic Scholar, and editor. She has published nine collections of poetry, a critical book on the renowned Malayalam poet Balamani Amma, a memoir, and a travelogue. She also has translated more than 15 works, both prose and poetry, into Hindi, and she won the Kendriya Sahitya Akedemy award for translation for the year 2000. She is a proud founding member and representative from Asia of the World Poetry Movement. As a scholar, she specializes in the study of the Vedas, especially the Atharva Veda, and secured a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the University of Rajasthan. With a distinguished fellowship from the Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts, her scholarship on the Atharva Veda has been published as The Seeds of the Mind, offering readers a fresh, feminist approach to the study of the ancient text.
ABOUT Scripted in the Streams:
This book of Seth Michelson’s translations won runner-up for the Satish Verma Translation Awards 2017 (Poetry) in India.
ABOUT AMIR OR:
Winner of the SPE Golden Wreath, Amir Or was born in Tel Aviv in 1956. He studied philosophy and comparative religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he has taught poetry, creative writing, and Ancient Greek religion at universities in Israel, Europe, the U.S. and Japan. He has published fifteen collections of poetry, articles on poetry and on classical and religious studies, and eight collections of translations from ancient Greek, Latin, English and Japanese. His own poetry has been translated into more than 50 languages, and he frequently reads at festivals around the world. He also is a national coordinator of the U.N.-sponsored venture “Poets for Peace,” and he serves as national editor of the international poetry magazines Atlas and Blesok. He is also a founding member of the EACWP (European Association of Creative Writing Programs) of the international Circle of Poets and of the WPM (World Poetry Movement). His many prizes and awards include the Harry Harshon Award (1986), the Minister of Culture Honorary Award for his translations from Ancient Greek (1994), the Bernstein Prize (1995), the Prime Minister’s Prize (1996), the Pleiades Tribute of the Struga Poetry Festival for having made “a significant contribution to modern world poetry” (Macedonia, 2000), the Fulbright Award for Writers (2006), the Oeneumi Poetry Prize of the Tetovo Poetry Festival (Macedonia, 2010), the Wine Poetry Prize of the Struga Poetry Evenings (Macedonia, 2013), the Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa Award (Montenegro, 2014) and the European Atlas of Lyrics Award (Republika Srpska, 2016). To purchase the book, please click here

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