(South Bend Tribune). Orlando Menes, an associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, wins a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for 2009.
Menes — whose latest poetry collection, “Furia,” was published in 2005 by Milkweed Editions — is at work on his next book of poetry. He said it’s going to be a collection of poems in closed forms — sonnets, villanelles, pantoums — tentatively titled “Diaspora Son.”
The subject of the book will be “the nature of fatherhood,” Menes says, based on his experience as both father and son.
“I will ‘explore,’ as most poets like to say, my childhood in Peru, in the U.S., my life as a father, and also my life as a child,” Menes says.
Menes previously has explored aspects of his life in his poetry, which has been anthologized and has appeared in such literary magazines as Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Epoch and Prairie Schooner. Born in Peru to Cuban parents, Menes grew up in Miami and later studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he received his doctorate degree. (read more)
Menes — whose latest poetry collection, “Furia,” was published in 2005 by Milkweed Editions — is at work on his next book of poetry. He said it’s going to be a collection of poems in closed forms — sonnets, villanelles, pantoums — tentatively titled “Diaspora Son.”
The subject of the book will be “the nature of fatherhood,” Menes says, based on his experience as both father and son.
“I will ‘explore,’ as most poets like to say, my childhood in Peru, in the U.S., my life as a father, and also my life as a child,” Menes says.
Menes previously has explored aspects of his life in his poetry, which has been anthologized and has appeared in such literary magazines as Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Epoch and Prairie Schooner. Born in Peru to Cuban parents, Menes grew up in Miami and later studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he received his doctorate degree. (read more)
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