Make it True Meets Medusario

<p>“<strong><em>Make It True meets Medusario</em></strong> brings together poets from divergent languages cultures and aesthetics to create a...conversation...a fertile meeting place for ongoing ideas about poetry  that might trouble the all too-easy academic labels and the subsequent segregation those aesthetic and political divisions cause within the larger global poetry community.” <strong><em>-From the book’s introduction by Matthew Trease</em></strong></p><p>This collaboration spawned by two previous anthologies includes the Spanish language poets of the Neobarroco school as organized by <strong>José Kozer</strong> a Cuban Neobarroco poet together with poets from the Cascadia bioregion arranged by <strong>Paul E Nelson</strong> founder of the Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) and <strong>Thomas Walton</strong> editor-in-chief of <em>Pageboy Magazine</em> Seattle WA.</p><p><strong><em>Translated by</em></strong> Alejandro Carrillo and Dana Nelson<strong>; </strong><strong>NEOBARROCO </strong><strong>(<em>Medusario</em>) </strong><strong>poets include: </strong>Carmen Berenguer Marosa Di Giorgio Roberto Echavarren Eduardo Espina Reynaldo Jiménez Tamara Kamenszain José Kozer Pedro Marqués de Armas Maurizio Medo Néstor Perlongher Soleida Ríos Roger Santiváñez and Raúl Zurita; <strong>CASCADIANS </strong><strong>(<em>Make It True</em>) </strong><strong>poets include: </strong>Stephen Collis Elizabeth Cooperman Sarah de Leeuw Claudia Castro Luna Nadine Maestas Peter Munro Paul E Nelson John Olson Shin Yu Pai Clea Roberts Cedar Sigo Matthew Trease and Thomas Walton</p>