Rosa Alcal谩 (Professor)
20th Century Poetry in English and Spanish, Translation
© Margarita Mejía
The DeWetter Endowed Chair in Poetry, Rosa Alcalá has published several books of her own poems and translations of poetry by Latin American writers. YOU, her fourth poetry collection, was published by Coffee House Press in 2024. She has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award, a Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship from Harvard, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. Her book Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña was runner-up for the PEN Translation Award. Her poems and translations are featured in publications such as The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and two volumes of The Best American Poetry. Critical essays on her work appear in American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement; The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of our Time; and The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. She is Consulting Editor for the University of Chicago Press’ Phoenix Poets Series.
Poesía del Siglo XX en Inglés y en Español. Traducción
Rosa Alcalá es autora de tres libros de poesía, el más reciente MyOther Tonge (Futurepoem, 2017). Sus poemas aparecen en numerosas antologías y revistas, incluyendo Best American Poetry 2019, American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, The Nation y American Poetry Review. Ganadora de una beca de traducción del National Endowment for the Arts, y subcampeona de un premio de traducción del PEN, es co-traductora de New & Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña (Kelsey Street Press, 2018). Ha dado charlas, lecturas y talleres tanto en los Estados Unidos como en América Latina, y sus poemas han sido, o estan siendo, traducidos al español, al portugués y al montenegrino. Originaria de Paterson, Nnueva Jersey, obtuvo su maestría en Escritura Creativa en Brown University y su doctorado en inglés en University at Buffalo. Más sobre ella aquí:
Contact Info
Department of Creative Writing
University of Texas at El Paso
University Towers, 520L/510H
500 West University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79968
ralcala1@utep.edu
Books
