Orlando Ricardo Menes
Orlando Ricardo Menes was 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.
Orlando Ricardo Menes
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- 1958
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- United States
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- poet · teacher
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- University of Florida · University of Illinois Chicago
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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. 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, Indiana Review, River Styx, Epoch, Colorado Review, New Letters, Crab Orchard Review, and Green Mountains Review.
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Anthologies
• The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) • Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2004)
Translations
Translations
• My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2009)
Books
• The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds (University of New Mexico Press, 2022) • Memoria (Louisiana State University Press, 2019) • Heresies (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) • Fetish (University of Nebraska, 2013) • Furia (Milkweed Editions, 2005) • Rumba atop the Stones (Peepal Tree Press, 2001) • Borderlands with Angels (chapbook) [Bacchae Press, 1994]. Winner of the 1994 Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest.
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• 2009 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts • 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize (Poetry), Fetish • 2019 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award in Fiction
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- 1.Orlando Ricardo Menes - Welcome. www.orlandoricardomenes.com.
- 2.Orlando Ricardo Menes: New Fetish, Old Furia. February 8, 2013.
- 3.Illinois Authors. Orlando Menes.
- 4.English.nd.edu. Faculty:Department of English @ University of Notre Dame.
- 5.Orlando Menes // Department of English // University of Notre Dame. english.nd.edu.
- 6.Christian Myers. Professor's poem collection wins book prize. The Observer. August 28, 2012.
- 7.Memoria.
- 8.Heresies. University of New Mexico Press. September 27, 2017.
- 9.Ricardo, Orlando. Furia – Milkweed Editions. Milkweed.org.
- 10.Rumba Atop the Stones | Peepal Tree Press. www.peepaltreepress.com.
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