Silvia Curbelo is a
Cuban
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* Cuban citizen, a perso ...
-born, American poet and writer.
Career
She is the author of four collections of poetry including ''Falling Landscape'' (
Anhinga Press
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, 2015) ''Ambush'' (Main Street Rag, 2004), ''The Secret History of Water'' (Anhinga Press, 1997), and her first chapbook, the winner of the 1990 Gerald Cable Poetry Chapbook Competition, ''The Geography of Leaving'' (Silverfish Review Press, 1991).
Curbelo's poetry appears in over two dozen
anthologies
In book publishing
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including ''The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry'' (
W.W. Norton
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), ''Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets'' (
Anhinga Press
Anhinga Press is an American, independent, literary press located in Tallahassee, Fla. The press began in 1972 as an outgrowth of the Apalachee Poetry Center, a non-profit organization promoting the reading and understanding of poetry. In 1976, f ...
), ''Norton's Anthology of Latino Literature'' (
W. W. Norton),
and ''The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: The 20th Century'' (
Aunt Lute Books
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Publishing history
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and ...
).
Her poems have appeared in various journals, including ''
American Poetry Review
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'', ''
Kenyon Review
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'', ''
Gettysburg Review
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The little magazine "is recognized ...
'', ''
Prairie Schooner
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'', ''Indiana Review'', ''Crab Orchard Review'' and ''
Tampa Review
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''.
Awards
She has received fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the
National Endowment for the Arts
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, the
Seaside Institute
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, the ''
Writer's Voice
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'', the
Florida Council on Arts and Culture and
Cintas Foundation
Oscar Benjamin Cintas y Rodriguez, (31 Mar 1887 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba – 11 May 1957 in New York City, N.Y.) was a prominent sugar and railroad magnate who served as Cuba's ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934.
Career
He wa ...
for her poetry. She won the
Atlantic Center for the Arts
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Cultural Exchange Fellowship to
La Napoule Arts Foundation in France. In 1996 Curbelo won the Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Memorial Prize from the ''
American Poetry Review
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''.
She was the judge for the 2010
Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
Curbelo currently lives and works in
Tampa, Florida
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, and was the editor of the now-defunct ''Organica Quarterly'' for more than 20 years.
See also
*
Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, Puerto-Rican historian and writer
*
Cuban American literature Cuban American literature overlaps with both Cuban literature and American literature, and is also distinct in itself. Its boundaries can blur on close inspection. Some scholars, such as Rodolfo J. Cortina, regard "Cuban American authors" simply as ...
*
List of Cuban-American writers
See also
* Cuban American literature
* List of Cuban writers
* List of Cuban women writers
* List of Cuban Americans
* Before Columbus Foundation
References
Bibliography
* (Anthology; includes writer biographies)
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References
External links
Curbeloreading on
Letras Latinas Letras Latinas is the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), with an office on campus in South Bend, Indiana, as well as Washington, D.C. It strives to enhance the visibility, appreciation and study ...
blog
Short biography and poems at''
American Poetry Review
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''
Curbelo biographyon City of
Tampa
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website
Biography atFlorida Commission for the Arts website.
Main Street Rag Press site.
*http://www.anhingapress.org/silvia-curbelo/?rq=silvia%20 Falling Landscape collection of poems from Anhinga Press
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21st-century American poets
American women poets
American writers of Cuban descent
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Hispanic and Latino American poets
Living people
Writers from Tampa, Florida
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers