Orlando Ricardo Menes Explained

Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American poet, short story writer, translator, editor, and professor.

Born in Lima, Peru, to Cuban parents, Menes immigrated to the United States at the age of 10 after a leftist coup d'etat forced his family out of Peru. He has lived almost his entire life in the US, except for two years spent in Madrid, Spain, right before the death of Francisco Franco.

Career

Menes earned a BA and a MA from the University of Florida and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.^[1]

The author of seven poetry collections, apart from anthologies and numerous translations of Latin American poetry, Menes's work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Hudson Review, Yale Review, Harvard Review, Callaloo, Hotel Amerika, Boulevard, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review,^[2] Indiana Review, River Styx, Epoch, Colorado Review, New Letters, Crab Orchard Review, and Green Mountains Review.^{[3] [4]}

Awards

• 2009 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts^[5]
• 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize (Poetry), Fetish^[6]
• 2019 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award in Fiction

Works

Books

• The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds (University of New Mexico Press, 2022)
• Memoria (Louisiana State University Press, 2019)^[7]
• Heresies (University of New Mexico Press, 2015)^[8]
• Fetish (University of Nebraska, 2013)^[2]
• Furia (Milkweed Editions, 2005)^[9]
• Rumba atop the Stones (Peepal Tree Press, 2001)^[10]
• Borderlands with Angels (chapbook) [Bacchae Press, 1994]. Winner of the 1994 Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest.

Anthologies

• The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)
• Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2004)

Translations

• My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2009)

External links

• Author website
• Faculty website
• Poetry Foundation
• Academy of American Poets

Notes and References

1. Web site: Orlando Ricardo Menes - Welcome. www.orlandoricardomenes.com. April 9, 2020.
2. Web site: Orlando Ricardo Menes: New Fetish, Old Furia. February 8, 2013. April 9, 2020.
3. Web site: Orlando Menes . Illinois Authors . April 30, 2012.
4. Web site: Faculty:Department of English @ University of Notre Dame . English.nd.edu . April 30, 2012.
5. Web site: Orlando Menes // Department of English // University of Notre Dame. english.nd.edu. April 9, 2020.
6. Web site: Professor's poem collection wins book prize . The Observer . Christian Myers . August 28, 2012 . November 6, 2012.
7. Web site: Memoria .
8. Web site: Heresies. September 27, 2017. University of New Mexico Press. April 9, 2020.
9. Web site: Ricardo . Orlando . Furia – Milkweed Editions . Milkweed.org . April 30, 2012.
10. Web site: Rumba Atop the Stones | Peepal Tree Press. www.peepaltreepress.com. April 9, 2020.