Orlando Ricardo Menes


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

Awards

Works

Books

The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds Memoria Heresies Fetish Furia Rumba atop the Stones Borderlands with Angels . Winner of the 1994 Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest.

Anthologies

The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008
  • ''Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred''

Translations