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POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Books of Poetry:
Sorting Metaphors, Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, Florida State University, 1983. Chosen by William Stafford as the winner of the national contest for the first Anhinga Poetry Prize. Blurbs on the back cover by William Stafford and Richard Wilbur.
Bread of the Imagined, Tempe: Bilingual Press, Arizona State University, 1992. A collection of poetry. Introductory text by Dionisio D. Martínez.
Cuba, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993. The 100th title in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. Nominated to the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry by CMU Press.
Vereda Tropical, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999.
The Mastery Impulse, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003.
Parable Hunter, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming 2008.
Translation:
New Latin American Poetry, Chapbook #17, Summer 1982 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal. Texts in Spanish original with facing page translation into English. I guest-edited this issue and realized all the translations. Contains works by 21 poets from eight Latin American countries. Among the contributors are Alberto Girri, Heberto Padilla, Javier Sologuren, Daniel Sada, Carlos Montemayor, J. G. Cobo Borda, Margara Russotto and Robert Juarroz.
Poetry in Literary Magazines (in English unless otherwise indicated):
"Chiasmus," The Devil's Millhopper, May, 1979.
"Links," Epoch, Fall, 1979. Vol. 29, No. 1.
"The Bell," "Gorilla: Meditations on a Zoologist," "Icarus and Ariadne" & "The Iceberg," Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1980, Vol. 30, No. 3.
"Conquistador," Poet & Critic, Vol. l2, No. 2.
"Rey de Copas"& "Pompeya," Poesía (Universidad de Valencia, Venezuela), 1980, Vol.9, No.4--Spanish texts.
"Memorias de un batracio," "Pájaro en un perímetro azul, III" & "Naturaleza Muerta," Zona Franca (Caracas), Sept-Oct, 1980, Vol.3, No. 30--Spanish texts.
"Notes on an Unfinished Mural"& "Segismundo," Wisconsin Review, Vol.l5, No.2, 1981.
"Knot," Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1981, Vol.31, No.3.
"The Magus," Spirit, Fall-Winter 1980-81, Vol.48, No.ll.
"The Fireling," The Devil's Millhopper, Spring 1981.
"Carthage," Kansas Quarterly, Summer-Fall 1981, Vol.13, No.3-4.
"The Red Hole," Kayak, January, 1982, No. 58.
"Sorting Metaphors," Poetry Northwest, Spring 1982, Vol.l3, No.1.
"Bedside Cyclops," Prairie Schooner, Spring 1982, Vol.56, No.1.
"Paris Inundated," Kayak, June, 1982, No.59.
"St. George and the Notary," Partisan Review, Vol.39, No.3, 1982.
"Silhouette," Kayak, October, 1982, No. 60.
"The Burial of the Elephant at Cremona," The Devil's Millhopper, Fall 1982, Vol.7, No.2.
"The Sugar Mill," Bilingual Review, May-August, 1982, Vol.9, No.2.
"Venus," Southern Poetry Review, Fall 1982, Vol.33, No.2.
"Terraces," Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1983, Vol.22, No.4.
"August," Palmetto Review, Vol.l, No.l, 1983.
"Onomatopoeia," Arizona Quarterly, Summer 1983, Vol.39, No.2.
"Chiaroscuro"& "Barracuda," Palmetto Review, Vol.l, No.2, 1983.
"Pompeii," Dreamworks, Vol.3, No.2, 1983.
"Swirling Lines," Missouri Review, Vol.7, No.3, 1984.
"The Island of Mirrors"& "Exile," The Fiddlehead (Canada), No.139, Spring 1984.
"The Poet," Confrontation, No.27-28, 1984.
"Foreign Language," Kayak, No.64, May, 1984.
"The Sharing"& "The Inventors," Beloit Poetry Journal, Fall 1984, Vol. 35, No.l.
"The Wind as Mirror," Apalachee Quarterly, No.22, 1985.
"The Land"& "Freedom as Etymology," Cedarmere Review, No.l, Fall 1985.
"Brooms," Agni Review, No.22, 1985.
"Battlefields," Carolina Quarterly, Vol.38, No.l, Fall 1985.
"What is a Face?"& "The Room," Black Warrior Review, Vol.12, Fall 1985.
"Déjeuner sur l'Eau," Florida Review, Vol.14, No.1, Spring/ Summer 1986.
"Trees and Transformations," Albatross, Vol. 1, No.2, 1986.
"View From Altos de Chavón"& "Homage to Vesalius," Ascent, Vol.11, No.1, Fall 1985.
"Aquarium," The Carrell, Vol.23, 1985.
"Fog's Edge," The American Poetry Review, Vol. 16, No.4, July/ August, 1987.
"The Island of Mirrors," Denver Quarterly, Vol.21, No.3, Winter 1987.
"Seals," "The Beauty of Treason"& "Point Blank: The Footbridge" in Linden Lane Magazine, Jan/March, 1988, Vol.VII, No.1, p.19.
"The Intruder," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 23, Nos. 3/4, Winter & Spring 1989.
"Nude Man Bending Into A Mirror," "Einmal Ist Keinmal," "Little Dog," "The Flight of the Labyrinth Maker's Son," "Articles of Childhood," "The Metaphor of Menace," "Fly," Downtown (SoHo, New York City), issue 175, Dec 20-27, 1989, pp. 8A-9A.
"Dart," Massachusetts Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fall 1990.
"Tabaco de Vuelta Abajo"& "Cañaverales," Iowa Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 1990.
"Orchids"& "Key Biscayne," Tampa Review, No.3, Fall 1990.
"Agrippina," La Bête, Vol. 1, No.1, Fall 1990.
"Smoke," The Devil's Millhopper, Summer 1991.
"Valle de Viñales," Southern Poetry Review, Vol.30, No.2, fall, 1990.
"Tropicana," Black Warrior Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1991.
"Mulata," "Paredón," "Indios con Levita," "Boleros,"& "The Cloud," Missouri Review, Vol. 14, No.1, Summer 1991.
"Dulce," Agni, No. 33, Summer 1991.
"Above Havana," Seneca Review, Vol. 21, No.1, Summer 1991.
"Frutas," Kenyon Review, Vol. 13, No.3, Summer 1991.
"Dos Ríos," Sonora Review, No. 21, Summer, 1991. Won 2nd prize in the magazine's annual poetry contest.
"President for Life," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 26, No.1, Summer 1991.
"Baracoa," "Charada China,"& "Ron," Caliban, No. 10, Summer 1991.
"Ganadería," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 10, No.1, Fall 1991.
"Aguas Medicinales"& "Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros," New England Review, Vol. 13, Nos 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1991.
"Lo Que No Hay Es Que Morirse," Culture Concrete, Vol.1, No.4, 1991.
"Belén"& "El Capitolio," Crazyhorse, No. 41, Winter 1991.
"Enfermas de los Nervios," "Demons,"& "View of Miami," Mid-American Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan. 1992.
"Chocolate," Quarterly West, No. 34, Winter/Spring 1992.
"Carlos Alfonzo," La Bête, Issue 3, Spring 1992.
"Train to Chicago," Apalachee Quarterly, Exile Issue, No. 38, Fall 1992.
"Rafael Soriano"& "Dominos" in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 66, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Barroco"& "Las Meninas" in Shenandoah, Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Sierra Maestra," in Sycamore Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Plazas," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 1992.
"Ambiguities"& "La Hora de los Mameyes" in Manoa, Vol. 4, No. 1 Spring 1992.
"Divided Forest," Indiana Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Cementerio Colón," Boston Review, Vol. 17, Nos 3-4, May-July 1992.
"Virgilio Piñera," Colorado Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1992.
"Everglades"& "Hermeneutics," The Carrell, Vol. 29, 1991 (Summer 1992).
"Salto de la Hanabanilla," Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 12, Issue 5, July/Aug 1992.
"The Map," Boulevard, Nos. 20-21 (Vol. 7, Nos. 2 & 3), Fall 1992.
"Trinidad, Ciudad Colonial," "Adriano Lambe's Florida," "The Daughter,"& "Analogies," Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, Fall 1992 (Columbus issue).
"Amelia Peláez," Onthebus, Double Issue 10 & 11 (Vol. IV, No. 2 & Vol. V, No. 1), Fall 1992.
"Cedro y Caoba"& "Minas de Cobre," Literary Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall 1992, Columbus Issue: New Myths.
"Batista"& "Conscience," Hayden's Ferry Review, No. 11, Fall/ Winter 1992.
"La Historia me Absolverá," Planet (Wales, UK), No. 96, Dec 1992/ Jan 1993.
"Aguirre," Exquisite Corpse, No. 40, March 1993.
"Playa de Varadero"& "Pesca de Esponjas," Minnesota Review, N.S. 39, Fall/Winter 1992/93.
"Wifredo Lam," The Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1992.
"Agustín Fernández," Guadalupe Review, No. 2, October 1992.
"Trauma" Chelsea, No. 53, 1992.
"Assimilation," Verse, Vol. 10, No. 1, April 1993.
"Vigilancia"& "Finally Learning to Hate" River Styx, No.37, May 1993.
"Fall: After the Sculpture `Icarus' by Gay García," North American Review, Vol. 278, No. 3, May/June 1993.
"One More Time the Blind Man Asks Himself If There Is Anybody Out There," "Ballet," "Pas de Deux," "Rorschach," Downtown (New York City), No. 220, May 26--June 9, 1993.
"Gracias, Fidel," Graham House Review, No. 17, Fall 1993.
"Pondering Exile on a Flight from Lima to Miami," "The Skin as Text,"& "Holding," Trafika (Prague), Inaugural issue, Autumn 1993.
"Fidelio Ponce de León, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, Fall/Winter 1993.
"Zen Walk in the Aftermath of Hurriane Andrew," Forum, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall/Winter 1993.
"Carlos Enríquez," Footwork, Issue no. 23, 1994.
"The Raft of the Medusa," Prairie Schooner, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter 1994.
"Primitives," Guadalupe Review, 1994.
"Contemplating the Distinct Possibilities of Failure," Caliban, issue No. 14, fall 1994.
"Spill, Creative Writing Classroom"& "View of Times Square" Apuntes Postmodernos, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 1994.
"Tinted Steam," "Hippolytus," "Poem Accompanying Gift of a Rock Taken from Shakespeare's Garden" in Chants, Spring 1995.
"Ganadería" (Spanish translation by Beth Pollack), in Puentelibre, Vol. 2, No 5 & 6, Summer 1995.
"L'Intrus," (French translation of "The Intruder"), Julio Larraz exhibition catalogue, Gallerie Vallois (Paris), May-July 1995.
"The Hollow," "Radio Man,"& "Inner Ear," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1, Summer 1995.
"After Leaving Leroy Lashley's Surprise Birthday Party"& "Self-Image," Crazyhorse, Number 49, Winter 1995.
"Segovia," The Journal Vol. 19, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1995.
"Self-Pity," Downtown, issue no. 366, Sept. 20, 1995.
"That Day the Body Became a Hand, Rivers" in Caliban, No. 15, Winter 1996.
"Premonitions of Civil War in Cuba" in New Letters, Vol. 62, No. 2, May 1996.
"Beholding a Stain beneath My Feet While Sitting on a Bench and Smoking a Cigar Outside the South Dade Regional Library"& "To a Poet in the First Shock of Exile, Three Weeks After Fleeing Cuba by Swimming Guantánamo Bay" in Boletín Federico García Lorca (English originals along with Spanish translations), Vol. 9, No. 18, December 1995.
"El Intruso" (Spanish translation), Proa, Vol. 3, No. 21, Jan/Feb 1996.
"Guayaquil" & "At the Bar," TriQuarterly, No. 96, June 1996.
"Like" in Cream City Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1996.
"Historia Me Absolverá" (Spanish translation), Letras de Buenos Aires, Vol. 16, No. 34, July 1996.
"La Habana Oscura," Mid-American Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1997.
"Pachú, Trumpeter," Kenyon Review, Vol. 18. Nos. 3/4, Summer/Fall 1996.
"Marcelino Valdés," "Wikly at the Conga Drums"& "Rockinchá" American Poetry Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, Mar/Apr 1997.
"Jonah"& "Culpa," Seneca Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 1997.
"February 24, 1996"& "The Aesthete under Arrest" in Manoa, Vol. 9, No. 1, Summer 1997.
"Parable"& "Domino Effect" in Mid-American Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, Fall 1997.
"Gambling" [from Crab], Seattle Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997.
"Vereda Tropical"& "Juan Carlos Formell," Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 74, No.1, Winter 1998.
"Juliet," Chelsea, No. 63, January 1998.
"Víctor's Café, Miami" DoubleTake, Vol. 4, No.2, Spring 1998.
"Years of Exile," Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1998.
"Awards" [from Crab], Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter 1998.
"Working as a Team" [from Crab], Green Mountains Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1998.
"Zenchishiki," Poet Lore, Vol. 93, No. 1, Spring 1998.
"Tahitian Vanilla Bean Creme Brulee...," River Styx, No. 52, July 1998.
"Nobody Knows Him" [from Crab], Many Mountains Moving, Vol. 3, No. 3 (9th issue), 1998.
"Diaphanous," The Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1998.
"Picazo's Barbershop," Nebraska Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1998.
"Entangled White Metal Patio Table Legs and Frames beneath Concrete Stairs" & "Sandbags" New Letters, Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 1998.
"Interior for Norma Desmond," "Buenos Aires"& "Portrait of Sheila," Verse, Vol. 15, No. 1 & 2, Fall 1998.
"Equality," Tampa Review, No. 17, Fall/Winter 1998.
"Nuestro vino es agrio, pero es nuestro vino," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 33, No.4, Winter 1998.
"Albaicín"& "Teotihuacán," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 4, No.1, Fall/Winter 1998.
"This Solution," Mississippi Review. Vol. 27, No 1 & 2, 1998.
"Morning Song," Notre Dame Review, No. 7, Winter 1999.
"Telephone Cord, Office"& "Pathetic Fallacies," Manhattan Review. Vol. 9, No.1, Spring 1999.
"La Habana Oscura," "Rockinchá," "Pachú, Trompetista," & "Trabajo en Equipo"(Spanish translations with English originals at foot of page) Hélice (Granada, Spain), "Seguido"(feature section), No. 11, Spring 1999.
"Isla de Corcho," Ploughshares, guest editor Mark Doty, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 1999.
"Clasp, Desktop Calendar," Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 2, Spring 1999.
"Teatro Natura," TriQuarterly, No. 105, Spring/Summer 1999.
"Nicolás Quintana" & "Comfort," Luna, Vol. 1, No.2, Fall 1999.
"Arche" & "Noah," Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 75, No. 4, Fall 1999.
"Delft/Miami," Manoa, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 1999.
"Road to Caracas," Pleiades, Vol 20, No. 1, Fall 1999.
"Business Class," Onthebus, 1999.
"Dice" &"Nick's Balcony, Brickell Key," CutBank, No. 52, Fall 1999.
"After Robert Doisneau's Photograph `Picasso and Francoise Gilot'," Iowa Review, Vol. 30, No.1, Spring/Summer 2000.
"Tammy," River Styx, No.57, Fall 2000.
"Shoreline," Seneca Review, Vol. 30, No.2, Fall 2000.
"Power," TriQuarterly, No.107/108, Fall 2000.
"Gambling on Reflection," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, Summer 2000.
"Fear," "Help," ALearning," "Making His Bed," "Thinking about Love" [from Crab], Marlboro Review, No. 9, Winter/Spring 2000.
"Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys" & "Islamorada," New England Review, Vol. 21, No.2, Fall 2000.
"Rumors," "Talks to Spider," "Horizon" [from Crab], Passages North, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2001.
"Dog Sleep," Crazyhorse, No. 60, Spring 2001.
"The Good Earth, the Good Stars," North American Review, Vol. 286, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2001.
"Epiphany/Key West," River Styx, No.61, 2001.
"John Says He's Falling," Hiram Poetry Review, No. 63, Spring 2002.
"Si vis pacem para bellum," Quarterly West, 25th anniversary issue, No. 53, Fall/Winter 2001-2002.
"After 'Senses,' Sculpture by Leroy Jackson, Silk Oak, 1987," Fourteen Hills, No.14, Vol.8, No.2, Spring/Summer 2002.
"Approaching Maiquetía," TriQuarterly, No. 114, Fall 2002.
"Canaima" & "Lightning," Notre Dame Review, No. 13, Winter 2002.
"For the Cuban Dead," Crab Orchard Review, Vol.8, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2002.
"Fuente Barroca," Seattle Review, Vol. 25, No.1, 2002.
"The Laws of Permanence," The Fiddlehead, No.214, Winter 2002.
"Nude Bar: South, Miami," Marlboro Review, No. 13, Winter/Spring 2002.
"Miedo," "Pensando en el amo," "Aprendiendo" & "Siendo Original," [Spanish versions of poems from Cangrejo/Crab], BCV Cultural (Caracas), Año 2, No. 9, Octubre, 2002.
"Offshore Island, Florida Keys" & "Fete Champetre," Passages North, Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2003.
"Immigrant Parable: Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Arguments," Manoa, Vol. 15, No.1, Summer 2003, published along with interview.
"Conjuring Bear," AWinter Landscape with a Bird Trap," & "Parable Hunter," TriQuarterly, No.117, Fall 2003.
"Object of Love/Objeto de Amor," AStorm Warning/Tormenta Anunciada," ANon-Conformist/Inconforme" [from Crab], Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Americas Society, New York, NY), No.67, Fall 2003.
"Jagged Heart," Phoebe, Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall 2003.
"Hunter Rhetoric," Notre Dame Review, No. 17, Winter 2004.
"Destroying the Evidence," Passages North, Vol. 25, No.1, Winter/Spring 2004.
"Samurai," Ploughshares, Vol. 30, No.1, Spring 2004.
"Host," North American Review, Vol.289, No.2, March-April 2004.
"Seven," The Southern Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, Summer 2004.
"Cellophane, Marlboro Lights," Colorado Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2004.
"Swingline," Mid-American Review, 25th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2004.
“Walking Past a New Five-Story Parking Garage,” Painted Bride Quarterly, #71, 2004:
http://www.pbq.rutgers.edu/Poetry.htm
“Flight to L.A.” Valparaiso Poetry Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004:
http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/pauflight.html
“Abacus,” Rattle, Issue 22, Vol 10, No.2, Winter 2004.
“Crab Spying” & “Crab and the Night” [from Crab], Center: A Journal of Literary Arts, Vol. 4, 2005.
“Metrozoo Miami,” Boulevard, 20th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 20, Nos. 2 & 3. Spring 2005.
“Genre Painting in Prosperous Times” & “Ladrón,” Passages North, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2005.
“Bitterness,” 32 Poems, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2005.
"AIbises, Miami," The Fiddlehead, No.223, Spring 2005.
“Tahiti, 1900,” Ascent, Vol. 29, No.2, Winter 2005.
“American Casino,” South Dakota Review, Vol. 43, Nos 1-2, Spring/Summer 2005.
“Bulletin Board,” Massachusetts Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, Fall 2005.
“Brújula,” Bellingham Review, Vol.28, no.2, issue 56, Fall 2005.
“Nests-Nearing Key Largo,” Iowa Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter 2005/06.
“Crescendo” & “Pictograph,” Ontario Review, No. 64, Spring/Summer 2006.
“Odds,” Mid-American Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2006.
“Ryman Auditorium, Nashville,” Rhino, 2006.
“Regina,” The Fiddlehead, No. 227, Spring 2006, Anniversaries issue (Hon. Mention).
“Caracas, Drought,” Clackamas Literary Review, Vol. 10, 2006.
“Penetrable,” Indiana Review (Latino Issue), Vol. 28, No.1, Summer 2006.
“Hunters in the Snow” & “The Rice Bird,” TriQuarterly, Spring/Summer 2006, number 125.
“Tetas Hechas,” MARGIE, Vol 5, Sept. 2006.
“Los Médanos de Coro,” Cream City Review (30th Anniversary, Memoir Issue), Vol. 30, No. 2, Fall 2006.
“Tracks,” Saranac Review, No. 2, 2006.
“Summer Florida Keys,” Ploughshares, Vol. 32, No. 4,Winter 2006-07.
“Lupanar,” Epoch, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2006.
“Noon Saturday Madison Square Park,” Crab Orchard Review (Defining Family), Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2006.
“Idea of Order at Fifth Avenue,” North American Review, Vol 291, No. 5, Sept-Oct. 2006.
“Semilla” and “Bamboo Wind Chimes,” Porcupine, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2006.
Poetry in Anthologies:
Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature. Edited by Gary Keller & Francisco Jimenez. Ypsilanti, Michigan: Bilingual Review Press, 1980: "Caryatides"& "Isla de Cabras, San Juan."
Cuban American Writers: Los Atrevidos. Edited by Carolina Hospital. Princeton: Ediciones Ellas/ Linden Lane Press, 1989: "The Beauty of Treason," "The Island of Mirrors," "Point-Blank: The Footbridge," "Seals," "Exile," "Foreign Language," "Sorting Metaphors," "Swirling Lines," "What is a Face?" "Night Flight," "Terraces."
North of Wakula. Edited by Mary Jane Ryals and Donna Decker. Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 1989: "Brooms."
The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry. Edited by Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon Univ Press, 1993: "Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros," "Frutas," "Ganadería," and "The Island of Mirrors."
New Worlds of Literature, second edition. Edited by Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1994: "Foreign Language" and "Sorting Metaphors."
Latino Poetry. Paramus, New Jersey: Globe Faeron, 1994: "Frutas."
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Writing. Edited by Ray González, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994: "Swirling Lines," "Seals," "Minas de Cobre."
Paper Dance, edited by Víctor Hernández Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana and Virgil Suárez, New York: Persea Books, 1995: "Frutas," "Mulata," "Carlos Alfonzo."
The Norton Introduction to Literature, edited by Carl E. Bain, Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter, 6th edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1995: "Foreign Language."
Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination, edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O'Sullivan. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995: "Fly," "Zen Walk in the Aftermath of Hurricane Andrew," "Frutas," "El Capitolio," and "View of Miami."
A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Carolina Hospital and Jorge Cantera. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1996: "Frutas," "Assimilation," "La Historia me Absolverá" and "Dos Ríos."
Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology, edited by Virgil Suárez and Delia Poey. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996: "Charada China" and "Exile." See also Fiction.
Writing Poems, edited by Robert Wallace and Michelle Boisseau, 4th edition, Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. "Pesca de Esponjas."
Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades, edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Milkweed Editions, 1999: "Paredón."
Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Milkweed Editions, 2000: "Kendall Gulls."
American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001: "At the Bar" & "Years of Exile."
Writing on Water, edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus. Terra Nova Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: The MIT Press, 2001: "Everglades."
Wachale! Prose and Poetry on Growing Up Latino Today, Cricket Books (Carus Publishing), 2001: "Frutas."
La pérdida y el sueño: antología de poetas cubanos en la Florida, edited by Carlos Espinosa Domínguez. Cincinnati: Termino Editorial, 2001. AFrutas," "Return to Havana," "The Defector," "Pachú, Trumpetist" & "Isla de Corcho."
The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Latino Literature, edited by Eduardo del Rio. Prentice-Hall, 2002. "Foreign Language" & "Minas de Cobre."
Vespers: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. "Segovia," "Noah" & "The Hollow."
Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution, edited by David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor. Terra Nova Book. Cambridge, Massachuseets & London: The MIT Press, 2004. "David Brubeck's Garden" & "Progress."
Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets, edited by Rick Campbell & C. L. Knight, Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 2004. ASorting Metaphors," "Red Hole," "Terraces," AParis Inundated," "Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros" & AMaya Corridor."
Cuba in Mind, edited by Maria Finn Domínguez, New York: Vintage/Random House, 2004. "Charada China."
Approaching Literature in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. "Years of Exile."
Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America, edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan Van Cleave, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. "Quilt Complex."
180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins, New York: Random House, forthcoming.
Short Fiction in Magazines & Anthologies:
"Martes," Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction, edited by Virgil Suárez and Delta Poey, New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
"The Defector," New England Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 1993. included in Little Havana Blues, edited by Virgil Suárez and Delia Poey, Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996. See also Poems in Anthologies.
"Resbaloso," Fiction, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1994.
"Grave," Prairie Schooner, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter 1994.
"The Unlikely Origin of Metaphor," Sudden Fiction International (Continued), edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas, New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
"Thunder Man," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1996
"The Invention of Hovering," Global City Review, No. 10, 1998.
Essays:
"Romancing the Exiliado," Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood, edited by Ray González, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1996.
"The Tasks of Exile," Occasional Paper Series, Cuban Studies Association, University of Miami, Vol. 2, No. 9, November 15, 1997. Edited version reprinted in Heterodoxy, Vol.6, No.1, Feb 1998.
The Wages of Exile," Re-membering Cuba, edited by Andrea O=Reilly Herrera. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Cuba and Its Artists: the Perils of Continuity," Cuba: Exilio y Cultura, Memorias del Congreso del Milenio, National Association of Cuban-American Educators (Congress held October 7-9,1999), book edited by Julio Hernández-Miyares and published by Ediciones Universal, Miami: 2002.
Miami y el arte del exilio," Revista Encuentro de la cultura cubana, Madrid, No. 33, verano de 2004, Dossier: Miradas sobre Miami.
“Exile, Cultural Survival and the Generations,” Cuban-American Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005.
Readings of Poetry & Fiction:
Spring Festival of Writers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. April 5--7, 1984. Read poetry.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, New Jersey. Shared a dialogue on stage with Derek Walcott "On the Life of the Poet;" took part in debate with Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Kizer, Allen Ginsberg and Sonia Sanchez on "Poetry and Politics;" and conducted a reading of my poetry that evening, October llth. The Geraldine R. Dodge Festival took place October 10--12, 1986.
"Conference on Cuban Literature Outside Cuba, 19th and 20th centuries: Desde el Niágara hasta el Mariel," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Oct.28-30, 1988. This conference was the literature component of the Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba Project. Participated in group poetry reading and in panel, "Beyond the Use of Spanish."
Two-man poetry reading, with Dionisio D. Martínez, at The Living Theatre, New York City, April 9, 1991.
Solo poetry reading at Opus Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, October 18, 1991.
Solo poetry reading at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Sponsored by the North-South Center, Research Institute for Cuban Studies, November 13, 1991.
Group poetry reading with Geoffrey Philp and Peter Schmitt at 1992 Miami Book Fair, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, November 17, 1991.
"Bilingual Blues," poetry group reading with Silvia Curbelo, Pablo Medina, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, "The Writer's Voice" series, International José Martí YMCA, Miami, FL, December 19, 1991.
Poetry reading with Dionisio D. Martínez at Art Miami 92, Miami Beach Convention Center, January 10, 1992.
Solo poetry reading, in conjunction with presentation of Bread of the Imagined, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, March 12, 1992.
Group poetry reading with David Bottoms, Fleda Brown Jackson, and Remar Sutton at the Fourth Annual Contemporary Literature Conference: Literature of the 70's, 80's, and 90's at Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA, April 4, 1992.
Solo poetry reading at Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, June 18, 1992.
Group fiction reading at Miami Book Fair, Nov. 20, 1992, with other writers included in Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction. Read story, "Martes."
Solo poetry reading at Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, March 9, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, April 8, 1993.
Summer Writers Workshop, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA, August 8-13, 1993. Gave a solo reading on August 10th, lectured during the week at five literature classes, and advised students individually on their poetry and fiction. Other writers participating in Workshop were Jane Hill and Robert Reis.
Solo poetry reading, Borders Bookstore, Miami, FL, August 22, 1993.
Solo reading of poetry and short fiction at Tobacco Road, inaugural reading of the "Butterfly and Lightning" Series, Miami, FL, August 31, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 21, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at McGill University, Montréal, December 2, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at Pink Pony Café in Manhattan, sponsored by Downtown Magazine, February 17, 1994. Video-taped, to be aired on a New York City Cable TV channel in Summer 1994.
Solo poetry reading at Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, March 5, 1994.
Solo poetry reading at St. John's County Public Library, St Augustine, Florida. Part of "Making Florida Home" Series, sponsored by Florida Humanities Council, April 14, 1994.
Solo readings and panels as one of the featured writers at the Sixth Annual Contemporary Literature Conference, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA, April 22-23, 1994.
Solo reading as part of symposium Los Latinos sponsored by Florida Humanities Council for the Florida Center for Teachers, Eckerd College, June 28, 1994.
Solo reading, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, October 9, 1994.
Solo reading, Butterfly Lightning Series 1994, Tobacco Road, Miami, FL, October 11, 1994.
Solo readings at Manatee Community College (Sarasota, FL) and Venice Public Library (Venice, FL), part of "Making Florida Home Series," sponsored by Florida Humanities Council, October 12 & 13, 1994.
Solo reading at Miami Book Fair International, November 20, 1994.
Florida Writers Panel, Central Florida Book Fair, Mt. Dora, Florida, February 11, 1995.
Solo reading and conducted workshops at sixth annual Literature Conference on "Derek Walcott and Caribbean literature," Kennesaw State College, Marietta, Georgia. April 18-21, 1995.
Solo reading, The Bookstore, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 11, 1995.
Solo reading, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, Oct 16, 1995.
Solo reading, conference of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), sponsored by Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 5, 1996.
Solo reading, Borders Bookstore, Coconut Grove, FL, May 18, 1996.
Solo reading, Butterfly Lightning Series 1994, Tobacco Road, Miami, FL, October 1, 1996.
Solo reading, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, February 13, 1997.
Readings in Spain at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, La Madraza at the Universidad de Granada, and at the Fundación Federico García Lorca in Madrid, as part of a series on Hispanic writers in the US, sponsored by the Federico García Lorca Foundation, February 21-25, 1997.
Solo reading, Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN, October 4, 1997.
Solo reading and a talk on the relation between poetry and art, sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, October 13-15, 1997.
Solo reading, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, February 12, 1998.
Solo reading, Miami International Book Fair, Miami, FL, November 22, 1998.
Bilingual reading shared with Dionisio D. Martínez, closing event of year-long series of talks and readings on "Panorama de la poesía cubana del siglo XX," Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, FL, December 8, 1998.
Solo poetry reading, Books & Books, Coral Gables, March 12, 1999.
Solo poetry reading (aside from Creative Writing Plenary Address and talk on Latin American art), Languaging 99 Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, March 3-7, 1999.
Solo poetry reading, concluding two week graduate and undergraduate level Poetry Workshop (EN 495 & 595, June 2-14), Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan. Reading June 15, 2001, sponsored by Dept of English Creative Writing Program and Passages North literary magazine.
Solo reading at the Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, March 18, 2002.
The Road Not Taken: Cuban-American Literature Panel, Part II, reading and discussion along with Pablo Medina (memoir) and Ana Menéndez (fiction), moderated by Ana Méndez Rodenas, at the Americas Society, New York City, May 15, 2002.
Solo reading, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, presenting The Mastery Impulse, Feb. 8, 2003.
Solo reading, Americas Society, New York, NY, April 25, 2003.
Caribbean Poetry Project, reading with Paul Pines and Juan-Carlos Formell presenting poems by the late Roberto Valero, Zinc Bar, New York, NY, July 29, 2004.
Solo reading, Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Nov. 5, 2004.
Awards, Distinctions and Fellowships:
1983 national competition for the first Anhinga Poetry Prize for book-length manuscripts of poetry. Won for Sorting Metaphors. Finalist judge: William Stafford. See also section of this vitae on Books and Chapbooks.
Cintas Fellowship in Literature, 1984-85, awarded by the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, United Nations, NY.
Miami New Times, arts and lifestyle weekly publication that publishes a "Best of Miami" annual issue--selected as "Best Local Poet" in 1998 and "Best Local Writer" in 2002.
Books of Poetry:
Sorting Metaphors, Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, Florida State University, 1983. Chosen by William Stafford as the winner of the national contest for the first Anhinga Poetry Prize. Blurbs on the back cover by William Stafford and Richard Wilbur.
Bread of the Imagined, Tempe: Bilingual Press, Arizona State University, 1992. A collection of poetry. Introductory text by Dionisio D. Martínez.
Cuba, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993. The 100th title in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. Nominated to the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry by CMU Press.
Vereda Tropical, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999.
The Mastery Impulse, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003.
Parable Hunter, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming 2008.
Translation:
New Latin American Poetry, Chapbook #17, Summer 1982 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal. Texts in Spanish original with facing page translation into English. I guest-edited this issue and realized all the translations. Contains works by 21 poets from eight Latin American countries. Among the contributors are Alberto Girri, Heberto Padilla, Javier Sologuren, Daniel Sada, Carlos Montemayor, J. G. Cobo Borda, Margara Russotto and Robert Juarroz.
Poetry in Literary Magazines (in English unless otherwise indicated):
"Chiasmus," The Devil's Millhopper, May, 1979.
"Links," Epoch, Fall, 1979. Vol. 29, No. 1.
"The Bell," "Gorilla: Meditations on a Zoologist," "Icarus and Ariadne" & "The Iceberg," Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1980, Vol. 30, No. 3.
"Conquistador," Poet & Critic, Vol. l2, No. 2.
"Rey de Copas"& "Pompeya," Poesía (Universidad de Valencia, Venezuela), 1980, Vol.9, No.4--Spanish texts.
"Memorias de un batracio," "Pájaro en un perímetro azul, III" & "Naturaleza Muerta," Zona Franca (Caracas), Sept-Oct, 1980, Vol.3, No. 30--Spanish texts.
"Notes on an Unfinished Mural"& "Segismundo," Wisconsin Review, Vol.l5, No.2, 1981.
"Knot," Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1981, Vol.31, No.3.
"The Magus," Spirit, Fall-Winter 1980-81, Vol.48, No.ll.
"The Fireling," The Devil's Millhopper, Spring 1981.
"Carthage," Kansas Quarterly, Summer-Fall 1981, Vol.13, No.3-4.
"The Red Hole," Kayak, January, 1982, No. 58.
"Sorting Metaphors," Poetry Northwest, Spring 1982, Vol.l3, No.1.
"Bedside Cyclops," Prairie Schooner, Spring 1982, Vol.56, No.1.
"Paris Inundated," Kayak, June, 1982, No.59.
"St. George and the Notary," Partisan Review, Vol.39, No.3, 1982.
"Silhouette," Kayak, October, 1982, No. 60.
"The Burial of the Elephant at Cremona," The Devil's Millhopper, Fall 1982, Vol.7, No.2.
"The Sugar Mill," Bilingual Review, May-August, 1982, Vol.9, No.2.
"Venus," Southern Poetry Review, Fall 1982, Vol.33, No.2.
"Terraces," Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1983, Vol.22, No.4.
"August," Palmetto Review, Vol.l, No.l, 1983.
"Onomatopoeia," Arizona Quarterly, Summer 1983, Vol.39, No.2.
"Chiaroscuro"& "Barracuda," Palmetto Review, Vol.l, No.2, 1983.
"Pompeii," Dreamworks, Vol.3, No.2, 1983.
"Swirling Lines," Missouri Review, Vol.7, No.3, 1984.
"The Island of Mirrors"& "Exile," The Fiddlehead (Canada), No.139, Spring 1984.
"The Poet," Confrontation, No.27-28, 1984.
"Foreign Language," Kayak, No.64, May, 1984.
"The Sharing"& "The Inventors," Beloit Poetry Journal, Fall 1984, Vol. 35, No.l.
"The Wind as Mirror," Apalachee Quarterly, No.22, 1985.
"The Land"& "Freedom as Etymology," Cedarmere Review, No.l, Fall 1985.
"Brooms," Agni Review, No.22, 1985.
"Battlefields," Carolina Quarterly, Vol.38, No.l, Fall 1985.
"What is a Face?"& "The Room," Black Warrior Review, Vol.12, Fall 1985.
"Déjeuner sur l'Eau," Florida Review, Vol.14, No.1, Spring/ Summer 1986.
"Trees and Transformations," Albatross, Vol. 1, No.2, 1986.
"View From Altos de Chavón"& "Homage to Vesalius," Ascent, Vol.11, No.1, Fall 1985.
"Aquarium," The Carrell, Vol.23, 1985.
"Fog's Edge," The American Poetry Review, Vol. 16, No.4, July/ August, 1987.
"The Island of Mirrors," Denver Quarterly, Vol.21, No.3, Winter 1987.
"Seals," "The Beauty of Treason"& "Point Blank: The Footbridge" in Linden Lane Magazine, Jan/March, 1988, Vol.VII, No.1, p.19.
"The Intruder," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 23, Nos. 3/4, Winter & Spring 1989.
"Nude Man Bending Into A Mirror," "Einmal Ist Keinmal," "Little Dog," "The Flight of the Labyrinth Maker's Son," "Articles of Childhood," "The Metaphor of Menace," "Fly," Downtown (SoHo, New York City), issue 175, Dec 20-27, 1989, pp. 8A-9A.
"Dart," Massachusetts Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fall 1990.
"Tabaco de Vuelta Abajo"& "Cañaverales," Iowa Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 1990.
"Orchids"& "Key Biscayne," Tampa Review, No.3, Fall 1990.
"Agrippina," La Bête, Vol. 1, No.1, Fall 1990.
"Smoke," The Devil's Millhopper, Summer 1991.
"Valle de Viñales," Southern Poetry Review, Vol.30, No.2, fall, 1990.
"Tropicana," Black Warrior Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1991.
"Mulata," "Paredón," "Indios con Levita," "Boleros,"& "The Cloud," Missouri Review, Vol. 14, No.1, Summer 1991.
"Dulce," Agni, No. 33, Summer 1991.
"Above Havana," Seneca Review, Vol. 21, No.1, Summer 1991.
"Frutas," Kenyon Review, Vol. 13, No.3, Summer 1991.
"Dos Ríos," Sonora Review, No. 21, Summer, 1991. Won 2nd prize in the magazine's annual poetry contest.
"President for Life," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 26, No.1, Summer 1991.
"Baracoa," "Charada China,"& "Ron," Caliban, No. 10, Summer 1991.
"Ganadería," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 10, No.1, Fall 1991.
"Aguas Medicinales"& "Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros," New England Review, Vol. 13, Nos 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1991.
"Lo Que No Hay Es Que Morirse," Culture Concrete, Vol.1, No.4, 1991.
"Belén"& "El Capitolio," Crazyhorse, No. 41, Winter 1991.
"Enfermas de los Nervios," "Demons,"& "View of Miami," Mid-American Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan. 1992.
"Chocolate," Quarterly West, No. 34, Winter/Spring 1992.
"Carlos Alfonzo," La Bête, Issue 3, Spring 1992.
"Train to Chicago," Apalachee Quarterly, Exile Issue, No. 38, Fall 1992.
"Rafael Soriano"& "Dominos" in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 66, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Barroco"& "Las Meninas" in Shenandoah, Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Sierra Maestra," in Sycamore Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Plazas," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 1992.
"Ambiguities"& "La Hora de los Mameyes" in Manoa, Vol. 4, No. 1 Spring 1992.
"Divided Forest," Indiana Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Cementerio Colón," Boston Review, Vol. 17, Nos 3-4, May-July 1992.
"Virgilio Piñera," Colorado Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1992.
"Everglades"& "Hermeneutics," The Carrell, Vol. 29, 1991 (Summer 1992).
"Salto de la Hanabanilla," Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 12, Issue 5, July/Aug 1992.
"The Map," Boulevard, Nos. 20-21 (Vol. 7, Nos. 2 & 3), Fall 1992.
"Trinidad, Ciudad Colonial," "Adriano Lambe's Florida," "The Daughter,"& "Analogies," Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, Fall 1992 (Columbus issue).
"Amelia Peláez," Onthebus, Double Issue 10 & 11 (Vol. IV, No. 2 & Vol. V, No. 1), Fall 1992.
"Cedro y Caoba"& "Minas de Cobre," Literary Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall 1992, Columbus Issue: New Myths.
"Batista"& "Conscience," Hayden's Ferry Review, No. 11, Fall/ Winter 1992.
"La Historia me Absolverá," Planet (Wales, UK), No. 96, Dec 1992/ Jan 1993.
"Aguirre," Exquisite Corpse, No. 40, March 1993.
"Playa de Varadero"& "Pesca de Esponjas," Minnesota Review, N.S. 39, Fall/Winter 1992/93.
"Wifredo Lam," The Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1992.
"Agustín Fernández," Guadalupe Review, No. 2, October 1992.
"Trauma" Chelsea, No. 53, 1992.
"Assimilation," Verse, Vol. 10, No. 1, April 1993.
"Vigilancia"& "Finally Learning to Hate" River Styx, No.37, May 1993.
"Fall: After the Sculpture `Icarus' by Gay García," North American Review, Vol. 278, No. 3, May/June 1993.
"One More Time the Blind Man Asks Himself If There Is Anybody Out There," "Ballet," "Pas de Deux," "Rorschach," Downtown (New York City), No. 220, May 26--June 9, 1993.
"Gracias, Fidel," Graham House Review, No. 17, Fall 1993.
"Pondering Exile on a Flight from Lima to Miami," "The Skin as Text,"& "Holding," Trafika (Prague), Inaugural issue, Autumn 1993.
"Fidelio Ponce de León, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, Fall/Winter 1993.
"Zen Walk in the Aftermath of Hurriane Andrew," Forum, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall/Winter 1993.
"Carlos Enríquez," Footwork, Issue no. 23, 1994.
"The Raft of the Medusa," Prairie Schooner, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter 1994.
"Primitives," Guadalupe Review, 1994.
"Contemplating the Distinct Possibilities of Failure," Caliban, issue No. 14, fall 1994.
"Spill, Creative Writing Classroom"& "View of Times Square" Apuntes Postmodernos, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 1994.
"Tinted Steam," "Hippolytus," "Poem Accompanying Gift of a Rock Taken from Shakespeare's Garden" in Chants, Spring 1995.
"Ganadería" (Spanish translation by Beth Pollack), in Puentelibre, Vol. 2, No 5 & 6, Summer 1995.
"L'Intrus," (French translation of "The Intruder"), Julio Larraz exhibition catalogue, Gallerie Vallois (Paris), May-July 1995.
"The Hollow," "Radio Man,"& "Inner Ear," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1, Summer 1995.
"After Leaving Leroy Lashley's Surprise Birthday Party"& "Self-Image," Crazyhorse, Number 49, Winter 1995.
"Segovia," The Journal Vol. 19, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1995.
"Self-Pity," Downtown, issue no. 366, Sept. 20, 1995.
"That Day the Body Became a Hand, Rivers" in Caliban, No. 15, Winter 1996.
"Premonitions of Civil War in Cuba" in New Letters, Vol. 62, No. 2, May 1996.
"Beholding a Stain beneath My Feet While Sitting on a Bench and Smoking a Cigar Outside the South Dade Regional Library"& "To a Poet in the First Shock of Exile, Three Weeks After Fleeing Cuba by Swimming Guantánamo Bay" in Boletín Federico García Lorca (English originals along with Spanish translations), Vol. 9, No. 18, December 1995.
"El Intruso" (Spanish translation), Proa, Vol. 3, No. 21, Jan/Feb 1996.
"Guayaquil" & "At the Bar," TriQuarterly, No. 96, June 1996.
"Like" in Cream City Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1996.
"Historia Me Absolverá" (Spanish translation), Letras de Buenos Aires, Vol. 16, No. 34, July 1996.
"La Habana Oscura," Mid-American Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1997.
"Pachú, Trumpeter," Kenyon Review, Vol. 18. Nos. 3/4, Summer/Fall 1996.
"Marcelino Valdés," "Wikly at the Conga Drums"& "Rockinchá" American Poetry Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, Mar/Apr 1997.
"Jonah"& "Culpa," Seneca Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 1997.
"February 24, 1996"& "The Aesthete under Arrest" in Manoa, Vol. 9, No. 1, Summer 1997.
"Parable"& "Domino Effect" in Mid-American Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, Fall 1997.
"Gambling" [from Crab], Seattle Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997.
"Vereda Tropical"& "Juan Carlos Formell," Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 74, No.1, Winter 1998.
"Juliet," Chelsea, No. 63, January 1998.
"Víctor's Café, Miami" DoubleTake, Vol. 4, No.2, Spring 1998.
"Years of Exile," Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1998.
"Awards" [from Crab], Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter 1998.
"Working as a Team" [from Crab], Green Mountains Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1998.
"Zenchishiki," Poet Lore, Vol. 93, No. 1, Spring 1998.
"Tahitian Vanilla Bean Creme Brulee...," River Styx, No. 52, July 1998.
"Nobody Knows Him" [from Crab], Many Mountains Moving, Vol. 3, No. 3 (9th issue), 1998.
"Diaphanous," The Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1998.
"Picazo's Barbershop," Nebraska Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1998.
"Entangled White Metal Patio Table Legs and Frames beneath Concrete Stairs" & "Sandbags" New Letters, Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 1998.
"Interior for Norma Desmond," "Buenos Aires"& "Portrait of Sheila," Verse, Vol. 15, No. 1 & 2, Fall 1998.
"Equality," Tampa Review, No. 17, Fall/Winter 1998.
"Nuestro vino es agrio, pero es nuestro vino," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 33, No.4, Winter 1998.
"Albaicín"& "Teotihuacán," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 4, No.1, Fall/Winter 1998.
"This Solution," Mississippi Review. Vol. 27, No 1 & 2, 1998.
"Morning Song," Notre Dame Review, No. 7, Winter 1999.
"Telephone Cord, Office"& "Pathetic Fallacies," Manhattan Review. Vol. 9, No.1, Spring 1999.
"La Habana Oscura," "Rockinchá," "Pachú, Trompetista," & "Trabajo en Equipo"(Spanish translations with English originals at foot of page) Hélice (Granada, Spain), "Seguido"(feature section), No. 11, Spring 1999.
"Isla de Corcho," Ploughshares, guest editor Mark Doty, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 1999.
"Clasp, Desktop Calendar," Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 2, Spring 1999.
"Teatro Natura," TriQuarterly, No. 105, Spring/Summer 1999.
"Nicolás Quintana" & "Comfort," Luna, Vol. 1, No.2, Fall 1999.
"Arche" & "Noah," Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 75, No. 4, Fall 1999.
"Delft/Miami," Manoa, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 1999.
"Road to Caracas," Pleiades, Vol 20, No. 1, Fall 1999.
"Business Class," Onthebus, 1999.
"Dice" &"Nick's Balcony, Brickell Key," CutBank, No. 52, Fall 1999.
"After Robert Doisneau's Photograph `Picasso and Francoise Gilot'," Iowa Review, Vol. 30, No.1, Spring/Summer 2000.
"Tammy," River Styx, No.57, Fall 2000.
"Shoreline," Seneca Review, Vol. 30, No.2, Fall 2000.
"Power," TriQuarterly, No.107/108, Fall 2000.
"Gambling on Reflection," Denver Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, Summer 2000.
"Fear," "Help," ALearning," "Making His Bed," "Thinking about Love" [from Crab], Marlboro Review, No. 9, Winter/Spring 2000.
"Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys" & "Islamorada," New England Review, Vol. 21, No.2, Fall 2000.
"Rumors," "Talks to Spider," "Horizon" [from Crab], Passages North, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2001.
"Dog Sleep," Crazyhorse, No. 60, Spring 2001.
"The Good Earth, the Good Stars," North American Review, Vol. 286, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2001.
"Epiphany/Key West," River Styx, No.61, 2001.
"John Says He's Falling," Hiram Poetry Review, No. 63, Spring 2002.
"Si vis pacem para bellum," Quarterly West, 25th anniversary issue, No. 53, Fall/Winter 2001-2002.
"After 'Senses,' Sculpture by Leroy Jackson, Silk Oak, 1987," Fourteen Hills, No.14, Vol.8, No.2, Spring/Summer 2002.
"Approaching Maiquetía," TriQuarterly, No. 114, Fall 2002.
"Canaima" & "Lightning," Notre Dame Review, No. 13, Winter 2002.
"For the Cuban Dead," Crab Orchard Review, Vol.8, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2002.
"Fuente Barroca," Seattle Review, Vol. 25, No.1, 2002.
"The Laws of Permanence," The Fiddlehead, No.214, Winter 2002.
"Nude Bar: South, Miami," Marlboro Review, No. 13, Winter/Spring 2002.
"Miedo," "Pensando en el amo," "Aprendiendo" & "Siendo Original," [Spanish versions of poems from Cangrejo/Crab], BCV Cultural (Caracas), Año 2, No. 9, Octubre, 2002.
"Offshore Island, Florida Keys" & "Fete Champetre," Passages North, Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2003.
"Immigrant Parable: Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Arguments," Manoa, Vol. 15, No.1, Summer 2003, published along with interview.
"Conjuring Bear," AWinter Landscape with a Bird Trap," & "Parable Hunter," TriQuarterly, No.117, Fall 2003.
"Object of Love/Objeto de Amor," AStorm Warning/Tormenta Anunciada," ANon-Conformist/Inconforme" [from Crab], Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Americas Society, New York, NY), No.67, Fall 2003.
"Jagged Heart," Phoebe, Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall 2003.
"Hunter Rhetoric," Notre Dame Review, No. 17, Winter 2004.
"Destroying the Evidence," Passages North, Vol. 25, No.1, Winter/Spring 2004.
"Samurai," Ploughshares, Vol. 30, No.1, Spring 2004.
"Host," North American Review, Vol.289, No.2, March-April 2004.
"Seven," The Southern Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, Summer 2004.
"Cellophane, Marlboro Lights," Colorado Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2004.
"Swingline," Mid-American Review, 25th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2004.
“Walking Past a New Five-Story Parking Garage,” Painted Bride Quarterly, #71, 2004:
http://www.pbq.rutgers.edu/Poetry.htm
“Flight to L.A.” Valparaiso Poetry Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004:
http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/pauflight.html
“Abacus,” Rattle, Issue 22, Vol 10, No.2, Winter 2004.
“Crab Spying” & “Crab and the Night” [from Crab], Center: A Journal of Literary Arts, Vol. 4, 2005.
“Metrozoo Miami,” Boulevard, 20th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 20, Nos. 2 & 3. Spring 2005.
“Genre Painting in Prosperous Times” & “Ladrón,” Passages North, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2005.
“Bitterness,” 32 Poems, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2005.
"AIbises, Miami," The Fiddlehead, No.223, Spring 2005.
“Tahiti, 1900,” Ascent, Vol. 29, No.2, Winter 2005.
“American Casino,” South Dakota Review, Vol. 43, Nos 1-2, Spring/Summer 2005.
“Bulletin Board,” Massachusetts Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, Fall 2005.
“Brújula,” Bellingham Review, Vol.28, no.2, issue 56, Fall 2005.
“Nests-Nearing Key Largo,” Iowa Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter 2005/06.
“Crescendo” & “Pictograph,” Ontario Review, No. 64, Spring/Summer 2006.
“Odds,” Mid-American Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2006.
“Ryman Auditorium, Nashville,” Rhino, 2006.
“Regina,” The Fiddlehead, No. 227, Spring 2006, Anniversaries issue (Hon. Mention).
“Caracas, Drought,” Clackamas Literary Review, Vol. 10, 2006.
“Penetrable,” Indiana Review (Latino Issue), Vol. 28, No.1, Summer 2006.
“Hunters in the Snow” & “The Rice Bird,” TriQuarterly, Spring/Summer 2006, number 125.
“Tetas Hechas,” MARGIE, Vol 5, Sept. 2006.
“Los Médanos de Coro,” Cream City Review (30th Anniversary, Memoir Issue), Vol. 30, No. 2, Fall 2006.
“Tracks,” Saranac Review, No. 2, 2006.
“Summer Florida Keys,” Ploughshares, Vol. 32, No. 4,Winter 2006-07.
“Lupanar,” Epoch, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2006.
“Noon Saturday Madison Square Park,” Crab Orchard Review (Defining Family), Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2006.
“Idea of Order at Fifth Avenue,” North American Review, Vol 291, No. 5, Sept-Oct. 2006.
“Semilla” and “Bamboo Wind Chimes,” Porcupine, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2006.
Poetry in Anthologies:
Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature. Edited by Gary Keller & Francisco Jimenez. Ypsilanti, Michigan: Bilingual Review Press, 1980: "Caryatides"& "Isla de Cabras, San Juan."
Cuban American Writers: Los Atrevidos. Edited by Carolina Hospital. Princeton: Ediciones Ellas/ Linden Lane Press, 1989: "The Beauty of Treason," "The Island of Mirrors," "Point-Blank: The Footbridge," "Seals," "Exile," "Foreign Language," "Sorting Metaphors," "Swirling Lines," "What is a Face?" "Night Flight," "Terraces."
North of Wakula. Edited by Mary Jane Ryals and Donna Decker. Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 1989: "Brooms."
The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry. Edited by Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon Univ Press, 1993: "Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros," "Frutas," "Ganadería," and "The Island of Mirrors."
New Worlds of Literature, second edition. Edited by Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1994: "Foreign Language" and "Sorting Metaphors."
Latino Poetry. Paramus, New Jersey: Globe Faeron, 1994: "Frutas."
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Writing. Edited by Ray González, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994: "Swirling Lines," "Seals," "Minas de Cobre."
Paper Dance, edited by Víctor Hernández Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana and Virgil Suárez, New York: Persea Books, 1995: "Frutas," "Mulata," "Carlos Alfonzo."
The Norton Introduction to Literature, edited by Carl E. Bain, Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter, 6th edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1995: "Foreign Language."
Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination, edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O'Sullivan. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995: "Fly," "Zen Walk in the Aftermath of Hurricane Andrew," "Frutas," "El Capitolio," and "View of Miami."
A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Carolina Hospital and Jorge Cantera. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1996: "Frutas," "Assimilation," "La Historia me Absolverá" and "Dos Ríos."
Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology, edited by Virgil Suárez and Delia Poey. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996: "Charada China" and "Exile." See also Fiction.
Writing Poems, edited by Robert Wallace and Michelle Boisseau, 4th edition, Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. "Pesca de Esponjas."
Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades, edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Milkweed Editions, 1999: "Paredón."
Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Milkweed Editions, 2000: "Kendall Gulls."
American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001: "At the Bar" & "Years of Exile."
Writing on Water, edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus. Terra Nova Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: The MIT Press, 2001: "Everglades."
Wachale! Prose and Poetry on Growing Up Latino Today, Cricket Books (Carus Publishing), 2001: "Frutas."
La pérdida y el sueño: antología de poetas cubanos en la Florida, edited by Carlos Espinosa Domínguez. Cincinnati: Termino Editorial, 2001. AFrutas," "Return to Havana," "The Defector," "Pachú, Trumpetist" & "Isla de Corcho."
The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Latino Literature, edited by Eduardo del Rio. Prentice-Hall, 2002. "Foreign Language" & "Minas de Cobre."
Vespers: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. "Segovia," "Noah" & "The Hollow."
Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution, edited by David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor. Terra Nova Book. Cambridge, Massachuseets & London: The MIT Press, 2004. "David Brubeck's Garden" & "Progress."
Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets, edited by Rick Campbell & C. L. Knight, Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 2004. ASorting Metaphors," "Red Hole," "Terraces," AParis Inundated," "Ostiones y Cangrejos Moros" & AMaya Corridor."
Cuba in Mind, edited by Maria Finn Domínguez, New York: Vintage/Random House, 2004. "Charada China."
Approaching Literature in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. "Years of Exile."
Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America, edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan Van Cleave, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. "Quilt Complex."
180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins, New York: Random House, forthcoming.
Short Fiction in Magazines & Anthologies:
"Martes," Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction, edited by Virgil Suárez and Delta Poey, New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
"The Defector," New England Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 1993. included in Little Havana Blues, edited by Virgil Suárez and Delia Poey, Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996. See also Poems in Anthologies.
"Resbaloso," Fiction, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1994.
"Grave," Prairie Schooner, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter 1994.
"The Unlikely Origin of Metaphor," Sudden Fiction International (Continued), edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas, New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
"Thunder Man," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1996
"The Invention of Hovering," Global City Review, No. 10, 1998.
Essays:
"Romancing the Exiliado," Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood, edited by Ray González, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1996.
"The Tasks of Exile," Occasional Paper Series, Cuban Studies Association, University of Miami, Vol. 2, No. 9, November 15, 1997. Edited version reprinted in Heterodoxy, Vol.6, No.1, Feb 1998.
The Wages of Exile," Re-membering Cuba, edited by Andrea O=Reilly Herrera. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Cuba and Its Artists: the Perils of Continuity," Cuba: Exilio y Cultura, Memorias del Congreso del Milenio, National Association of Cuban-American Educators (Congress held October 7-9,1999), book edited by Julio Hernández-Miyares and published by Ediciones Universal, Miami: 2002.
Miami y el arte del exilio," Revista Encuentro de la cultura cubana, Madrid, No. 33, verano de 2004, Dossier: Miradas sobre Miami.
“Exile, Cultural Survival and the Generations,” Cuban-American Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005.
Readings of Poetry & Fiction:
Spring Festival of Writers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. April 5--7, 1984. Read poetry.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, New Jersey. Shared a dialogue on stage with Derek Walcott "On the Life of the Poet;" took part in debate with Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Kizer, Allen Ginsberg and Sonia Sanchez on "Poetry and Politics;" and conducted a reading of my poetry that evening, October llth. The Geraldine R. Dodge Festival took place October 10--12, 1986.
"Conference on Cuban Literature Outside Cuba, 19th and 20th centuries: Desde el Niágara hasta el Mariel," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Oct.28-30, 1988. This conference was the literature component of the Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba Project. Participated in group poetry reading and in panel, "Beyond the Use of Spanish."
Two-man poetry reading, with Dionisio D. Martínez, at The Living Theatre, New York City, April 9, 1991.
Solo poetry reading at Opus Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, October 18, 1991.
Solo poetry reading at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Sponsored by the North-South Center, Research Institute for Cuban Studies, November 13, 1991.
Group poetry reading with Geoffrey Philp and Peter Schmitt at 1992 Miami Book Fair, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, November 17, 1991.
"Bilingual Blues," poetry group reading with Silvia Curbelo, Pablo Medina, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, "The Writer's Voice" series, International José Martí YMCA, Miami, FL, December 19, 1991.
Poetry reading with Dionisio D. Martínez at Art Miami 92, Miami Beach Convention Center, January 10, 1992.
Solo poetry reading, in conjunction with presentation of Bread of the Imagined, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, March 12, 1992.
Group poetry reading with David Bottoms, Fleda Brown Jackson, and Remar Sutton at the Fourth Annual Contemporary Literature Conference: Literature of the 70's, 80's, and 90's at Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA, April 4, 1992.
Solo poetry reading at Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, June 18, 1992.
Group fiction reading at Miami Book Fair, Nov. 20, 1992, with other writers included in Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction. Read story, "Martes."
Solo poetry reading at Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, March 9, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, April 8, 1993.
Summer Writers Workshop, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA, August 8-13, 1993. Gave a solo reading on August 10th, lectured during the week at five literature classes, and advised students individually on their poetry and fiction. Other writers participating in Workshop were Jane Hill and Robert Reis.
Solo poetry reading, Borders Bookstore, Miami, FL, August 22, 1993.
Solo reading of poetry and short fiction at Tobacco Road, inaugural reading of the "Butterfly and Lightning" Series, Miami, FL, August 31, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 21, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at McGill University, Montréal, December 2, 1993.
Solo poetry reading at Pink Pony Café in Manhattan, sponsored by Downtown Magazine, February 17, 1994. Video-taped, to be aired on a New York City Cable TV channel in Summer 1994.
Solo poetry reading at Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, March 5, 1994.
Solo poetry reading at St. John's County Public Library, St Augustine, Florida. Part of "Making Florida Home" Series, sponsored by Florida Humanities Council, April 14, 1994.
Solo readings and panels as one of the featured writers at the Sixth Annual Contemporary Literature Conference, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA, April 22-23, 1994.
Solo reading as part of symposium Los Latinos sponsored by Florida Humanities Council for the Florida Center for Teachers, Eckerd College, June 28, 1994.
Solo reading, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, October 9, 1994.
Solo reading, Butterfly Lightning Series 1994, Tobacco Road, Miami, FL, October 11, 1994.
Solo readings at Manatee Community College (Sarasota, FL) and Venice Public Library (Venice, FL), part of "Making Florida Home Series," sponsored by Florida Humanities Council, October 12 & 13, 1994.
Solo reading at Miami Book Fair International, November 20, 1994.
Florida Writers Panel, Central Florida Book Fair, Mt. Dora, Florida, February 11, 1995.
Solo reading and conducted workshops at sixth annual Literature Conference on "Derek Walcott and Caribbean literature," Kennesaw State College, Marietta, Georgia. April 18-21, 1995.
Solo reading, The Bookstore, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 11, 1995.
Solo reading, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, Oct 16, 1995.
Solo reading, conference of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), sponsored by Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 5, 1996.
Solo reading, Borders Bookstore, Coconut Grove, FL, May 18, 1996.
Solo reading, Butterfly Lightning Series 1994, Tobacco Road, Miami, FL, October 1, 1996.
Solo reading, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, February 13, 1997.
Readings in Spain at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, La Madraza at the Universidad de Granada, and at the Fundación Federico García Lorca in Madrid, as part of a series on Hispanic writers in the US, sponsored by the Federico García Lorca Foundation, February 21-25, 1997.
Solo reading, Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN, October 4, 1997.
Solo reading and a talk on the relation between poetry and art, sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, October 13-15, 1997.
Solo reading, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, February 12, 1998.
Solo reading, Miami International Book Fair, Miami, FL, November 22, 1998.
Bilingual reading shared with Dionisio D. Martínez, closing event of year-long series of talks and readings on "Panorama de la poesía cubana del siglo XX," Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, FL, December 8, 1998.
Solo poetry reading, Books & Books, Coral Gables, March 12, 1999.
Solo poetry reading (aside from Creative Writing Plenary Address and talk on Latin American art), Languaging 99 Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, March 3-7, 1999.
Solo poetry reading, concluding two week graduate and undergraduate level Poetry Workshop (EN 495 & 595, June 2-14), Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan. Reading June 15, 2001, sponsored by Dept of English Creative Writing Program and Passages North literary magazine.
Solo reading at the Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, March 18, 2002.
The Road Not Taken: Cuban-American Literature Panel, Part II, reading and discussion along with Pablo Medina (memoir) and Ana Menéndez (fiction), moderated by Ana Méndez Rodenas, at the Americas Society, New York City, May 15, 2002.
Solo reading, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, presenting The Mastery Impulse, Feb. 8, 2003.
Solo reading, Americas Society, New York, NY, April 25, 2003.
Caribbean Poetry Project, reading with Paul Pines and Juan-Carlos Formell presenting poems by the late Roberto Valero, Zinc Bar, New York, NY, July 29, 2004.
Solo reading, Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Nov. 5, 2004.
Awards, Distinctions and Fellowships:
1983 national competition for the first Anhinga Poetry Prize for book-length manuscripts of poetry. Won for Sorting Metaphors. Finalist judge: William Stafford. See also section of this vitae on Books and Chapbooks.
Cintas Fellowship in Literature, 1984-85, awarded by the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, United Nations, NY.
Miami New Times, arts and lifestyle weekly publication that publishes a "Best of Miami" annual issue--selected as "Best Local Poet" in 1998 and "Best Local Writer" in 2002.
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