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Brazil

Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Was born in 1937 (Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil). During the 1960s he was very active in the movements that have changed brazilian poetry, and he was in close contact with the avant-garde groups. It was during those years that he became involved with important political and social movements. Poems such as "Que país é este?" (which has been translated into Spanish, English, French and German) became posters and broadsides and were posted in offices, unions, universities and bars. As a journalist he has written for the main newspapers and magazines in Brazil. He has lectured and taught in several Brazilian, European and North-American universities. He was the Director of the National Library of Brazil between 1990 and 1996. He has published about 30 titles, including criticism, poetry and journalism. His latest title is Textamentos (1999).

Álvaro Alves de Faria
Is a journalist, poet, and writer and one of the most important voices of the Generation of the 60’s in Brazilian poetry. He initiated the movement of public readings in São Paulo. He works in television and radio, and has received the most distinguished literary prizes of Brazil in poetry. He has written eight books of poems, among which are Noturno Maior (1963), and Gesto Nulo (1998).

Carlos Felipe Moisés
(São Paulo, Brasil, 1942) Is a poet, literary critic and translator. Between 1972 and 1992 he taught Literature ( University of São Paulo and University of California, Berkeley ). He has published the following books of poetry: A poliflauta (1960), A tarde e o tempo (1964), Carta de marear (1966), Urna diurna (1974), Círculo imperfeito (1978), Subsolo (1989) and Lição de casa (1998). His poemas have been included in various anthologies, in Brazil, Portugal and France. He is the author of several volumes of essays, including Poesia e realidade (1977), O poema e as máscaras (1981), Poética da rebeldia (1983), Literatura, para quê? (1996) and O desconcerto do mundo (2001). Besides a number of poems by various authors, he has translated into Portuguese Jacques Dubois, Marshall Berman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Campbell, Wilson Harris and Thomas Nagel. He is now working on a new book of poetry: Noite nula.

Claudia Roquette-Pinto
Was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1963. She lived in California for a year, in 1980. She holds a BA in Literary Translation (PUC-RJ). Between 1985 and 1990, she was the director of the cultural newspaper Verve. She has published five books of poetry: Os Dias Gagos (author edition, RJ, 1991); Saxífraga (Salamandra, RJ, 1993); Zona de Sombra (7 letras, RJ, 1997); Corola (Ateliê Editorial, SP, 2001 –Jabuti Poetry Prize/2002) and Margem de manobra (Aeroplano, RJ, 2005 – a finalist of the Portugal-Telecom Award/2006). Her poems have been translated into English, Spanish, French and German, and included in several anthologies, as well as in national and international publications. In 2006, she created and was the curator of the event GRAP – Grafite+Rap+Poesia, at Galeria Severo 172, in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro. In November of the same year, she travelled to Berlin, invited by the project Copa da Cultura and gave a poetry reading at the Ibero-American Institute. At the moment, she is working on a book of children / youth prose, preparing her next poetry book and doing research on the graffiti language and its relations with poetry. She lives in Rio de Janeiro with her children, Pedro, Bruno e Luisa.

Cyro de Mattos
Was born in the city of Itabuna, in the southern state of Bahia, Brazil. He is a lawyer, journalist, poet, and author of books for children. He has published seventeen books, and received many literary awards. As a poet, he is the author of Cantiga Grapiúna, Lavrador Inventivo, Vinte Poemas do Rio and Viagrária, among others.

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Márcio-André
Was born in 1978 in Rio de Janeiro. He has a BA in Letters and an MA in Poetics from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He wrote the books Movimento Perpétuo (2002), Cazas (2006) and Intradoxos (2007). He is co-founder, editor of and essay-writer in the arts and literature journal Confraria, set and published in collaboration with the Post-Graduate Department of the UFRJ and the Confraria do Vento publishing house, where Márcio-André holds a post as editorial coordinator. A multimedia artist, in his performances he plays the violin while reciting poetry (by means of previously recorded sound), with projections of images, fonts, architectural drawings and TG tree diagrams. The perfectioning of his concept led to the creation of the project-group Arranjos para Assobio, made of poetical textures and experimental realities, which, fusing physical and oral expression, projections, and sound and stage elements, searches for new ways of poetry reading. He collaborates with many electronic and printed newspapers, mainly as a translator; there he has published poems by Gilles Ivain, Serge Pey, Ghérasin Luca, Mathieu Bénézet, Rafael Alberti and Hagiwara Sakutaro. Now he is deep into a systematic reflexive work, trekking the suburbs, trying to give shape to what he calls “poetics of the houses” — a geopoetics he has been elaborating on in a series of essays about the dwellings, the boroughs and the cities.

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Ricardo Aleixo
Was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, in 1960. He has published Festim (1992), A roda do mundo (1996 - co-authored by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira ), Quem faz o quê? (1999), Trívio (2001), and Máquina zero (2004). His poems, articles and essays appeared in newspapers and journals, including Folha de S. Paulo, Jornal do Brasil, Estado de Minas, Medusa, Et Cetera, Inimigo rumor, Azougue, Rattapallax (EUA), Revue noire (França), etc. He has been included in the anthologies Na Virada do Século - Poesia de Invenção no Brasil (edited and introduced by Claudio Daniel and Frederico Barbosa; Ed. Landy, São Paulo); Correspondencia Celeste - Nueva Poesía Brasileña (edited and translated by Adolfo Montejo Navas; Editorial Árdora, Espanha) and Esses poetas - Uma antologia da poesia brasileira nos anos 90 (edited by Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda; Ed. Aeroplano). He was the curator of the Festival de Arte Negra de Belo Horizonte (1995 and 2003) and of the Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Belo Horizonte. As performer and composer, he is a member of the Sociedade Lira Eletrônica Black Maria (poetry + music + video + dance + performance), of which he is also a founding member and artistic director, and of Cia. SeráQuê? He is also editor and visual programmer. He has co-ordinated workshops in the field of experimental poetics of the voice - a field to which he has contributed many essays and articles. His forthcoming book is the collection of critical essays Palavras a olhos vendo: Escritos sobre escritas, for which he was awarded a writer's fellowship by the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional.

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Silviano Santiago

Vinicius Dantas
Was born in Aracaju, Serpige, in 1956, and presently lives in São Paulo. He studied cinema at the University of São Paulo. He has published translations of poems by William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Celan. He edited an anthology, Poesia Concreta, with Iumna M. Simon. Most recently he has been working on a book about modernist poetry, questions of nationality and the brazilian avant-garde in the 1920s.

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