is the author of fourteen books of poetry, three collections of essays, and two–dozen volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin, Estonian, Japanese, and Chinese.  He is the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press and the Director of Poets Against War.  His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.  His most recent book, Measured by Stone, was published by Curbstone Press in 2007.

is the author of five books of poetry published in the United States and England, including The New World (Curbstone Press) and Sudden Dreams (Coffee House Press). A bilingual collection of his poetry, Espejo de la tierra/Earth’s Mirror, was recently published by Casa de Poesía, Costa Rica.  He translated The Violent Foam: New and Selected Poems, by Nicaraguan poet Daisy Zamora, and co–translated The Time Tree, poems by Vietnamese poet Huu Thinh (Curbstone Press).

has published sixteen books as a poet, editor, and translator, including The Republic of Poetry (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen, and Imagine the Angels of Bread (winner of an American Book Award), all from W.W. Norton.  He has recently released poetry collections in Spain, Puerto Rico, Chile, and England.  The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua.  He is a Revolutionary activist, disciple of Thomas Merton, Roman Catholic priest, ambassador for the Sandinistas, Minister of Culture in post–Somoza Nicaragua, and co–founder of the international cultural center: House of Three Worlds.  On his eightieth birthday, he received the nation’s highest honor, the Order of Rubén Darío.  He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.  This year, New Directions published his Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, representing six decades of his work.