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.
R. T. Smith Keith Flynn Robert Bly Ron Rash Essay Dede Wilson Marilyn Kallet Quincy Troupe Michael Harper Review Ryan G. Van Cleave Janice Moore Fuller Lyn Lifshin Bill Knott Newton Smith Spanish Jeffery Beam Emmanuel Moses Emöke Z. B’Racz Patrick Bizzaro Russian Kathryn Stripling Byer Robert Creeley Simon Perchik Eugenio Montale William Matthews Sally Buckner Al Maginnes Luke Hankins Jonathan Williams Gaylord Brewer Welsh Phebe Davidson Thomas P. Feeny Lee Ann Brown Patricia Smith Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Hungarian Marilyn Hacker Rene Char Stella Vinitchi Radulescu J. W. Bonner Thomas Rain Crowe Jack Hirschman Jonathan Greene