Robert Lima

Creative Writing

 Involved in the New York City poetry movement of the early 1960s, he read weekly in group sessions at the Café Cino (with Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, David Antin, George Economou, et. al.), at Tenth Street Coffeehouse (with Howard Ant, Robert Nichols, Paul Blackburn, David Ignatow, Louis Zukovsky, et. al.), at "Les Deux Megots" (with Robert Bly, Jackson Mac Low, Diane Wakoski, LeRoi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, et. al., co-founding and editing the anthology Seventh Street: Poems from "Les Deux Megots" and Seventh Street Review) and at The Judson Memorial Church (co-editing the second series of Judson Review). He also represented The American Book Review at the annual New York Book Fair and read at the Small Press Center. To read samples of his poetry, click the image.

Beyond the environs of New York City, he has read with James Dickey at the University of South Carolina, with Alan Dugan, Willis Barnstone and Jorge Luis Borges at the University of Maine, again with Borges and Barnstone at Dickinson College, and with many other poets at Penn State University and its campuses. Since 1968 he has read at the yearly Central Pennsylvana Festival of the Arts (creating the readings and editing the first of its anthologies). He has also read at Boston Public Library, Villanova University, Penn State, Centre County (PA) Library, Bellefonte Historical Society, Duquesne, Indiana-Purdue at Ft. Wayne, Cincinnati, Ithaca, Temple, East Stroudsburg, Marymount-Manhattan, Gannon, New York, Rutgers, Ft. Lauderdale, Wildwood Poetry Festival, Yellow Springs Institute. Abroad, he has read in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal (with Dennis Brutus and Amiri Baraka), Italy, Puerto Rico, England, and China.

 His poetry has appeared in the U.S. and abroad in Paunch, Boundary 2, Dreamworks, Gallery Series Five, Athanor, Cimarron Review, The Liberal Arts Review, Lynx, The Lima Times (Peru), Poet Lore, Salted Feathers, Linden Lane Magazine, Nightsun, Black Bough, Poema Convidado, Town and Gown, Wind Chimes, Perspectivas (Mexico), Seventh Street: Poems of "Les Deux Megots,"The West Conscious Review, International Poetry, Sandlapper: The Magazine of South Carolina, La Voz, Tinderbox, Delta Epsilon Sigma Bulletin, Pivot, Journal of General Education, UT Review, Gamut, The Literary Tabloid, Seventh Street Review, Statements, Broadside, The Pittsburgh Point, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Point of View/Punto de Vista, Anthology of Festival Poetry, Studia Mystica, Twelve Festival Poets, Consenso, Laughing Unicorn, Cielo Abierto (Peru), Images: A Magazine of Poetry, The Literary Review, Abraxas (Belgium), Salome: A Literary Dance Magazine, Drishti, Anterem (Italy), Catalyst, Affinities, Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream, Chicago Literary Review, Liminar (Spain), The Baltimore Sun Magazine, Studies in Contemporary Satire, Condor (Puerto Rico), Dorna (Spain), Feuillets (Switzerland), Término, Crosscurrents, Visions, (Borges) Simply a Man of Letters, The Forum of Phi Sigma Iota, Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Lyra, Ometeca, Shooting Star, Aleph (Colombia), Latin American Indian Literatures Journal, Huehuetitlan, The Caribbean Writer, In the West of Ireland Anthology, among other books and journals.

 His poetry translations have been featured in Chicago Review, Mundus Artium, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Kosmos, Stardancer, James Joyce Quarterly, Poet Lore, Poe Studies, Dreamworks, Chelsea, Latin American Literary Review, Salted Feathers, Poesis, Visions, and in the books Octavio Paz: Homage to the Poet, Poems of Exile and Alienation, Latin American Women Writers Yesterday and Today, Simposio Pablo Neruda, (Borges) Simply a Man of Letters, Borges the Poet, MovieWorks, and Lips. International Women Poets Anthology.

 He is the author of the books of poetry Poems of Exile and Alienation (Anvil Press, 1976), Fathoms (Carnation Press, 1981), Corporal Works (Realities Library, 1985), The Olde Ground (Society of Inter-Celtic Arts, 1985), Mayaland (Madrid: Editorial Betania, 1992), and Sardinia / Sardegna (Bordighera, 2000). He was a Cintas Foundation Fellow in Poetry and a Senior Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Peru, serving as poet-in-residence at Universidad de San Marcos and visiting professor of Comparative Literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His latest poetry book is TRACKING THE MINOTAUR. POEMS , published in 2003.

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