Jesús Sepúlveda
Jesús Sepúlveda awarded a first prize in poetry

Aug. 1, 2019 – Jesús Sepúlveda, a Chilean poet and senior instructor I of Spanish in the romance languages department, was awarded the First Prize of Poetry in the II Concurso de Poesía Oregoniana 2019. The Instituto de Cultura Oregoniana, a nonprofit promoting the Spanish-speaking culture in Oregon, gave Sepúlveda the award for his poem “Retablo de las maravillas.” Sepúlveda has written eight poetry collections and three books of essays, most recently “Poets on the Edge,” and his works have been published in more than 15 countries. — from Around the O
Jesús Sepúlveda Poetry Reading: Espejo de los detalles
November 21, 2017 | ||
4:30 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Mills International Center
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
LAS Book Presentation Series
Jesús Sepúlveda
Poetry Reading. Espejo de los detalles (forthcoming)
Jesús Sepúlveda teaches at the University of Oregon in the Department of Romance Languages. Jesús Sepúlveda is the author of eight poetry collections and three books of essays, including his green-anarchist manifesto El jardín de las peculiaridades (2002) and his book of literary criticism Poets on the Edge (2016). His selected poems were collected in Poemas de un bárbaro, published in Santiago de Chile in 2013, and his most recent book of poetry Secoya was published in New York in 2015. Sepúlveda’s work has been published in more than fifteen countries and partially translated into eight languages, leading him to participate in international poetry festivals and poetry readings throughout the world.
Sponsored by Latin American Studies. This event is free & open to the public.