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