William Ospina is a well-known contemporary Colombian journalist and poet. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and essays and has translated Marguerite Yourcenar, Flaubert, and Shakespeare into Spanish. The poems included here, “The Geologist,” and “The Condemned Man on the Pyramid,” are from his collection, The Country of Wind, which won the 1992 Premio Nacional de Poesia del Instituto Colombiano de Cultura.
Robert Creeley Rene Char Sally Buckner Luke Hankins Spanish Jonathan Williams William Matthews Lyn Lifshin Michael Harper Ryan G. Van Cleave Robert Bly Eugenio Montale Lee Ann Brown Al Maginnes R. T. Smith Essay Janice Moore Fuller Marilyn Kallet Emmanuel Moses Hungarian Emöke Z. B’Racz Dede Wilson Russian Jack Hirschman Newton Smith Patrick Bizzaro Review Thomas Rain Crowe Marilyn Hacker Welsh Jonathan Greene Bill Knott Patricia Smith Keith Flynn Simon Perchik Ron Rash Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Gaylord Brewer Quincy Troupe J. W. Bonner Jeffery Beam Kathryn Stripling Byer Thomas P. Feeny Phebe Davidson Gearóid Mac Lochlainn