Frank Báez is a
Dominican poet, editor, and writer, born in 1978 in
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Na ...
,
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...
. He has published six poetry books, a short story collection, and four nonfiction books. Two of his books, ''Last night I dreamt I was a DJ'' (2014) and ''The end of the world came to my neighborhood'' (2022) have been translated into English.
Frank’s collection of stories ''Págales tú a los psicoanalistas'' won the 2006 Santo Domingo Book Fair First Prize for short stories. His poetry collection ''Postales'' also won the National Poetry Prize Salomé Ureña in 2009.
Frank Báez studied Psychology at the
Santo Domingo Institute of Technology
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (English: Santo Domingo Institute of Technology), also known as INTEC, is a private university located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was founded on October 9, 1972, by a group of connoted professi ...
(Intec).
With fellow poet Homero Pumarol, he founded a
spoken word
Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an oral tradition, ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetic ...
band called El Hombrecito, which has released three albums.
He previously co-directed the digital poetry magazine ''Ping Pong'', which published a generation of young poets and was characterized by translations and essays that addressed new poetic trends. From 2013 to 2020 he was chief editor of ''Revista Global'', editing almost forty issues. Also, as an editor, in 2022, he edited the trilingual poetry anthology: ''On/Off-Shore: Poets of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora''.
Books
Poetry collections
* ''Jarrón y otros poemas.'' Editorial Betania, Madrid, 2004.
* ''Postales'', 200
* ''Anoche soñé que era un DJ / Last Night I Dreamt I Was A DJ.'' Translated by P. Scott Cunningham and Hoyt Rogers. Jai-Alai Books, 2014.
* ''La Marilyn Monroe de Santo Domingo''. Ilustraciones de Nono Bandera. Galería Estampa, Biblioteca Americana, Madrid, 2017
* ''Llegó el fin del mundo a mi barrio''. Valparaíso ediciones, México, 2017.
* ''Este es el futuro que estabas esperando'', Seix Barral, Bogotá, 2017.
* ''Mar de la Intranquilidad''. Ilustraciones de Nono Bandera. Espacio mínimo, Galería de Arte, 2024.
* ''Desarmando la biblioteca de mi padre'', Fondo de cultura Económica, Bogotá, 2024.
Short story collections
* ''Págales tú a los Psicoanalistas'' (For the Psychoanalysts, You Pick Up the Tab!) Editorial Ferilibro, Santo Domingo, 2007.
Nonfiction collections
* ''En Rosario no se baila cumbia''. Folia, Buenos Aires, 2011
* ''En Granada no duerme nadie''. El nocturno diurno, Managua, 2013
* ''La trilogía de los festivales''. Ping Pong Ediciones, Santo Domingo, 2016.
* ''Lo que trajo el mar''. Reedición aumentada. Laguna libros, Bogotá, Colombia, 2020.
Edited volumes
* ''Tejiendo Redes: El VIH visto a través de 14 activistas de Latinoamérica''. Editor CLACSO, Buenos Aires, 2021.
* ''On/Off-Shore: Poets of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora.'' Jai-Alai Books, Miami, 2022.
El Hombrecito albums and live concerts
* ''Llegó El Hombrecito'' (2009)
* ''La última vuelta'' (2009)
* ''La última vuelta en vivo en el Palacio de Bellas Artes''
* ''Fin de la transmisión'' (2019)
* ''Radioteatro "En vivo en Casa de Teatro"'' (2019)
References
External links
"Nocturne" by Frank Báez.Cuatro poemas de Frank BáezEl HombrecitoRevista Ping PongJai-Alai Books
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1978 births
Living people
21st-century Dominican Republic poets
Dominican Republic male poets
21st-century male writers
Caribbean writers