American poet
Menes at the 2019 Texas Book Festival Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American poet , short story writer, translator, editor, and professor.
Born in Lima, Peru , to Cuban parents, Menes immigrated to the United States at the age of 10 after a leftist coup d'etat forced his family out of Peru. He has lived almost his entire life in the US, except for two years spent in Madrid , Spain , right before the death of Francisco Franco .
Career
Menes earned a BA and a MA from the University of Florida and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago . He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame .[ 1]
The author of seven poetry collections, apart from anthologies and numerous translations of Latin American poetry, Menes's work has appeared in Poetry , American Poetry Review , Georgia Review , Prairie Schooner , Hudson Review , Yale Review , Harvard Review , Callaloo , Hotel Amerika , Boulevard , Shenandoah , The Southern Review , Sycamore Review ,[ 2] Indiana Review , River Styx , Epoch , Colorado Review , New Letters , Crab Orchard Review , and Green Mountains Review .[ 3] [ 4]
Awards
Works
Books
The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds (University of New Mexico Press, 2022)Memoria (Louisiana State University Press, 2019)[ 7] Heresies (University of New Mexico Press, 2015)[ 8] Fetish (University of Nebraska, 2013)[ 2] Furia (Milkweed Editions, 2005)[ 9] Rumba atop the Stones (Peepal Tree Press, 2001)[ 10] Borderlands with Angels (chapbook) [Bacchae Press, 1994]. Winner of the 1994 Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest.
Anthologies
Translations
My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2009)
External links
References
^ "Orlando Ricardo Menes - Welcome" . www.orlandoricardomenes.com . Retrieved April 9, 2020 .^ a b "Orlando Ricardo Menes: New Fetish, Old Furia" . February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .^ "Orlando Menes" . Illinois Authors. Retrieved April 30, 2012 .^ "Faculty:Department of English @ University of Notre Dame" . English.nd.edu. Retrieved April 30, 2012 .^ "Orlando Menes // Department of English // University of Notre Dame" . english.nd.edu . Retrieved April 9, 2020 .^ Christian Myers (August 28, 2012). "Professor's poem collection wins book prize" . The Observer . Retrieved November 6, 2012 . ^ "Memoria" .^ "Heresies" . University of New Mexico Press . September 27, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .^ Ricardo, Orlando. "Furia – Milkweed Editions" . Milkweed.org. Retrieved April 30, 2012 . ^ "Rumba Atop the Stones | Peepal Tree Press" . www.peepaltreepress.com . Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
