At Your Feet , by Ana Cristina Cesar translated by Brenda Hillman and Helen Hillman, with Sebastião Edson Macedo, edited by Katrina ...

Last year I had the pleasure of translating a small cache of poems by Arnaldo Antunes (1960-), a Brazilian musician, composer and writ...

Paulo Leminski (photo Julio Covello) It has been eons since I've posted translations; the last, I think, were several poems by Sunj...

It has been a while since I've posted a translation on this site or written about the topic here, so I am happy to link to a special ...

More than once on this blog   I've championed the poetry of Adélia Prado  (1935-). I've even touted her as a potential candidate ...

Francisco Alvim (Photo: Bel Pedroso) Recently I was reading poet Francisco Alvim 's (b.  Araxá , Brazil , 1938-)  Poemas (1968-2000...

Ana Cristina César (from http://tomzine24.wordpress.com) Several years ago I came across the poetry of Ana Cristina César (1952-1983),...

Claudia Roquette-Pinto, at the P&PCW workshop Back in July I posted an entry on the contemporary Brazilian poet Claudia Roquette-P...

Arquivo Portugal Telecom Next fall the Brazilian poet Claudia Roquette-Pinto is scheduled to visit the university for a bilingual rea...

Yesterday's post was my 1,300th! Not bad after my rather obvious but unavoidable blogging decline last of the last few years. Let me o...

A quarter of a century before Frank O'Hara premiered his urban, pop-suffused, witty, giddy queer poetry, Mário de Andrade (1893-1945, ...

The following poem is by one of my favorite poets, Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), who was also a novelist and short story writer, journalist...

I'm back in the Chi, classes are underway. This fall's load looks to be a little lighter than the past few years, since I'm teac...