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Alberto Pimenta
Alberto Pimenta is one of those poets who take seriously and thank for the tolerance awarded them by Aristotle, when he allowed for shifts from the standard form, normally established in the Rhetoric and the Poetics. He thus considers himself one who is ‘tolerated’, in the very same sense applied to prostitues in Portugal until mid-twentieth century. In line with this, and in the same way that no master or politician is the same as the other, Pimenta sets poets in two categories: those who are tolerant and those who are tolerated. One of his latest published titles is the long poem Marthiya de Abdel Hamid segundo Alberto Pimenta (2005).

Ana Hatherly
Was born in Porto (Portugal) in 1929. She lives and works in Lisbon. A graduate of the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University, she earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures of the Golden Age at the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1950s she studied music in Portugal, France and Germany. In 1974 she graduated from the International London Film School. Between 1975 and 1976, she lectured at ARCO (Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual) and from 1976 until 1979 at Escola Superior de Cinema, in Lisbon. Since 1984, she has been Professor of Portuguese Literature (16th-18th cent.) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. An established poet, painter and film maker, she started her literary and artistic career in 1958, having since published a large number of books and essays. In the early 60s she joined the Portuguese Experimenta1 Poetry Group, publishing theoretical studies on international avant-garde movements, particularly in their relation to the baroque tradition. She made experimental films, held various solo exhibitions of her visual work and participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, performances and poetry festivals. From the 80s onwards her work, both in poetry and painting, became more and more individual, outgrowing group influences. Besides 20 individual volumes of her poetry, selections of her poems, translated into over a dozen languages have appeared in leading anthologies of contemporary European literature. Some of her art works are included in the main Portuguese Contemporary Art Museums and private collections in Portugal and abroad. Copies of her films are to be found at the Gulbenkian Foundation Collection and at the Cinemateca Nacional. In 1978 she was awarded the Oskar Nobiling Medal by the Academia Brasileira de Filologia, in Rio de Janeiro, for distinguished services in the field of literature; in 1998 she won the Prize for Literary Essay, awarded by the Portuguese Writers Association; in 1999 she was awarded the Pen Club Prize for Poetry; in 2003, the Evelyne Encelot Prize for Poetry, in France, and also the Hannibal Lucic Poetry Prize, in Croatia.

Ana Luisa Amaral
Has published six books of poetry: Minha senhora de quê (1990); Coisas de Partir (1993); Epopeias (1994); E muitos os caminhos (1995), Às Vezes o Paraíso (1998) and Imagens (2000). She is a professor of Literature and English Culture, and has written her doctorate dissertation on Emily Dickinson. She also writes essays about modern and contemporary poetry.

Ana Mafalda Leite
Has the name of a ship that used to travel from Portugal to Africa. She was born in Portugal and, only a few months old (as her name pressaged), was taken to the North of Mozambique, where she lived until she was eighteen. She travels emotionally between two homelands, one belonging to the affects, Mozambique (where she wrote her first poems), the other her place of origin, where she now lives. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University and she is a scholar in the field of lusophone literatures. Her books include Cem haiku (anthology in collaboration with José Manuel Lopes; Lisboa, Veja, 1984); Em Sombra Acesa (Lisboa: Veja, 1984); Canções de Alba (Lisboa: Vega, 1989; Menção Honrosa Eça de Queiroz 1990); Mariscando Luas (in collaboration with Roberto Chichorro and Luís Carlos Patraquim; Lisboa: Vega, 1992); and Rosas da China (Lisboa: Quetzal, 1999).

António Branco
Was born in Angola in 1961. He was an actor between 1978 and 1983, and performed with Teatro da Comuna and Teatro do Mundo. He has taught at the University of Macau and he now lectures at the University of Algarve. His poetry was awarded the Poetry Prize of the Centro Nacional de Cultura in 1986 and he has published Fugidia Comunhão (1996).

António Jacinto Pascoal
António Jacinto Rebelo Pascoal (born in 1967, in Coimbra) holds a Masters’ in Portuguese-Speaking African Literatures and Cultures. His début took place in 1991, with the book Pátria ou Amor (Prize of the Students’ Union in Coimbra, prefaced by Agustina Bessa-Luís). His poetry can be found in many different anthologies of poetry. He currently lives in Arronches.

António Ramos Rosa

Boaventura de Sousa
Has published four books of poetry: O Rosto quotidiano (1966), Têmpera (1980), Madison e outros lugares (1989), and Viagem ao centro da pele (1995). Under the name Boaventura de Sousa Santos, he is professor of Sociology at the Universities of Coimbra and Wisconsin-Madison, and he is the author of numerous publications in that field.

Carlos Poças Falcão

Casimiro de Brito

E.M. de Melo e Castro
was born in Covilhã, Portugal, in 1932. He earned his first degree in Textile Engineering at the Technical Institute of Bradford, England, in 1956. He worked as an engineer, and also in technical teaching and he is the author of several textbooks in the field of textile design. He earned his Ph.D. at São Paulo University, Brazil, where he taught between 1996 and 2001. Presently he is Professor of Multimedia Art at the ESAP (Escola Superior Artística do Porto ) and Portuguese Language and Culture at the Instituto Piaget. He was one of the practitioners and theoreticians of Portuguese Experimental Poetry in the 1960s, and he authored the first concrete poetry book (IDEOGRAMAS, 1961). He is also one of the pioneers of videopoetry (RODA LUME, 1968). Between 1985 and 1989, in collaboration with the Open University in Lisbon, he developed the video and computer poetry project SIGNAGENS. In the last decade he has been producing infopoetry. He was the editor of several anthologies, including Antologia da Novíssima Poesia Portuguesa, co-edited with Maria Alberta Menéres. He is the author of 22 books of poetry and 18 books of criticism, essays and literary theory. His poems published between 1950 and 1989 have been collected in TRANS(A)PARÊNCIAS, Sintra, Tertúlia, 1989 [Poetry Award Inaset-Inapa for 1990]. His latest books include Entre o Rigor e o Excesso: Um Osso (poetry) (Ed. Afrontamento, Porto, 1994); Finitos Mais Finitos (fiction) (Ed. Hugin, Lisboa, 1996); Voos da Fénix Crítica II (Edições Cosmos, Lisboa, 1998); Antologia para Inici-Antes, (Editora Ausência, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2003) and O Limite das Coisas ( poesia) (Ed. Campo das Letras, Porto, 2003). He received the Prize Jacinto do Prado Coelho, awarded by the International Association of Literary Critics, for his book Voos da Fénix Crítica, (Lisboa, Edições Cosmos, 1995).

Eduardo Pitta
was born in Lourenço Marques [ Maputo ], on August 9th, 1949. He is a poet, fiction writer and literary critic. He has written for the literary magazines Colóquio-Letras and LER, where he has been poetry critic for more than a decade. He lived in Mozambique until 1975. He has published seven books of poetry, in which you can trace his development from the hermetic expression of the colonial situation to expressionism centred on the (homo)sexual identity of the subject. A large selection of that corpus of poems was collected in Marcas de Água (1999). A significant number of his essays and critical writings have been collected in two volumes: Comenda de Fogo (2002) and Metal Fundente (2004). In Fractura (2003), an essay on the homossexual condition in contemporary Portuguese literature, Eduardo Pitta describes representations of homotextuality from a perspective that deals with "identity negotiations". With his trilogy of short-stories, Persona (2000), his writing underwent a tectonic movement. He was also a regular contributor to the on-line journal Ciberkiosk. His poetry and prose have appeared in various journals and anthologies in Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil and, in his early years (1968-75), in Mozambique. In 2001, he edited a special issue on contemporary Portuguese literature for the French journal Arsenal. Since 1982 he has participated in many conferences, seminars and poetry festivals in Portugal and abroad.

Egito Gonçalves (1920-2001)

Feliciano de Mira
Feliciano de Mira was born in Arraiolos, Portugal, holds a PhD in Socio-Economics of Development from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and also a PhD in Economic Sociology of Organizations, from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the Technical University in Lisbon. Besides being active in other areas, Feliciano de Mira has been working since 1979 on the creation of visual and sound poetry, as well as experimental writing using different media. He has taken part in both conventional and multimedia exhibits, debates and conferences and his poetry has been published in countries ranging from Portugal and Brazil, to Mozambique, El Salvador, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. His collection of visual poetry, Bénédiction, was published in 2006 (Palimage).

Fernando Aguiar

Fernando Assis Pacheco (1937-1995)

Fernando Echevarría

Fernando Guimarães

Fernando Pinto do Amaral
Was born in Lisbon in 1960. He took his doctorate in Romance Literatures, and is a professor at the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon. A literary critic, he has published in many literary reviews. His publications include A Escada de Jacob (1993), Às Cegas (1997), O Mosaico Fluido (which won the Pen Club prize for criticism in 1991) and Na Órbita de Saturno (1992). His translations include As Flores do Mal by Baudelaire, for which he won a Pen Club prize for translation, and Poemas Saturnianos by Verlaine.

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão poems...

Firmino Mendes
Was born in Guimarães, Portugal, in 1949. He is a professor of Portuguese Language at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto. His poetry is published in magazines and in his books, which include Ilha sobre Ilha (1993, which won the poetry prize from the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores), Fronteira Animal (1993), Invocação e Oficios (1995) and Um Segredo Guarda o Mundo (1998).

Gastão Cruz
Was born in Faro in July 1941.
He did a BA in English and German at the Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University. In 1961 his first poems appeared in the collective publication Poesia 61.
His work as a critic and essay writer can in part be read in the selection A Poesia Portuguesa Hoje (1973; 2nd revised edition 1999). Since 1975 he has been active in the theater, both as a critic and a director; he was one of the founders of the Grupo Teatro Hoje/Teatro da Graça (1975-1994), which he directed and co-directed, staging plays by Crommelynck (Les Amants Puérils [The Puerile Lovers]), Camus (Le Malentendu [The Misunderstanding]), Strindberg (Pelikanen [The Pelican]) and Tchekhov (Chayka [The Seagull]), as well as his adaptation of Carlos de Oliveira’s novel Uma Abelha na Chuva (A Bee in the Rain).
He has translated poets such as Blake, Cocteau, Jude Stéfan and Sandro Penna, as well as Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Strindberg’s Pelikanen.
Between 1980 and 1986 he lived in London, where he taught Portuguese language and literature at King’s College.
He is one of the directors of the Luís Miguel Nava Foundation and of its poetry journal Relâmpago.
His books include Outro Nome (1965), As Aves (1969), Teoria da Fala (1972), Órgão de Luzes (1981), O Pianista (l984), As Leis do Caos (1990) and As Pedras Negras (1995). 
In 1999 he collected all his poetry in Poemas Reunidos (Publicações Dom Quixote). Between 2000 and 2006 he published his next four volumes Crateras, Rua de Portugal, Repercussão and A Moeda do Tempo, all at Assírio & Alvim. In 2004 he organized the anthology Quinze Poetas Portugueses do Século XX  and the audiobook Ao Longe os Barcos de Flores – Poesia Portuguesa do Século XX, both also published by Assírio & Alvim. 

Helder Macedo
Has lived in London since 1960, and holds the Camões Chair at King’s College. He is the director of the journal Portuguese Studies, and is the current president of the Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas. As well as five volumes of poetry, of which Viagem de Inverno (1994) is the most recent, he has published three novels: Partes de África (1991), Pedro e Paula (1998) and Vícios e Virtudes (2000). He has published extensively on Portuguese Literature, including books on Bernardim Ribeiro, Camões, and Cesário Verde.

Helga Moreira
was born in Quadrazais (Guarda), in 1950. She is the author of Cantos do Silêncio (1978), Fogo Suspenso (1980), Quem não vier do sul (1983), Aromas (1985), Os Dias Todos Assim (1996), Desrazões (2002) and Tumulto (2003). Her poetry has appeared in various journals - Serpente, Colagem, Os Poetas do Café, Hífen, etc. - and in several anthologies: A Jovem Poesia Portuguesa-I (1979) and Amor Luxúria & Morte (1987). She has also been included in Vozes e Olhares no Feminino (Ed. Isabel Pires de Lima, 2001). She lives in Porto.

Inês Lourenço 

Isabel Cristina Pires
Was born in 1953 and took her degree in Medicine, specializing in Psychiatry. Presently she is a psychiatrist. Her work includes the short story collections Universal Ilimitada (1987), A Casa em Espiral (1991), a novel, A Árvore das Marionetas (1989), and a book of poems, A Roda do Olhar (1993). She was awarded the Prémio Caminho de Ficção Científica in 1987, and Prémio Revelação da Revista Mulheres in the same year. Her work is to be found in a German anthology of Portuguese short stories, and she translates from Catalan and German.

João de Mancelos
Was born in Coimbra in 1968. He took his degree in English and Portuguese from the University of Aveiro, and he teaches literature at the Universidade Católica de Viseu. He has published a book of prose, Veleiros do Tempo Cósmico (1988; 1993) and writes for various periodicals. His collections of poetry include Ausência e Esquecimento (1991), A Oeste deste Céu (1993), Ausentes para Amor Incerto (1994) and O Labor das Marés (1995).

João Miguel Fernandes Jorge

João Rasteiro
Was born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1965.  A poet, essayist and translator, he studied Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Coimbra. He is a member of the Portuguese Writers Association, the Editorial Board of the poetry magazine Oficina de Poesia and thedelegate in Portugal of the Italian magazine Il Convívio. His poems have appeared in several magazines and anthologies in Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Italy and Spain. He has published the following poetry books: A Respiração das Vértebras (Sagesse, 2001), No Centro do Arco (Palimage, 2003) and Os Cílios Maternos (Palimage, 2005). In 2007 he will publish Salamanca ou a memória do Minotauro (Editorial Verbum – Madrid). João Rasteiro has received several prizes, such as the Segnalazione di Merito in the International Poetry Contest Publio Virgilio Marone (Itália-2003) and the 1st Prize in the Poetry and Short-Story Contest Cinco Povos Cinco Nações, 2004. In 2005 his poetry was selected to appear in the anthology Cânticos da Fronteira/Cánticos de la Frontera (Trilce Ediciones – Salamanca).

Jorge Fragoso
Was born in Beira, Mozambique, in 1956, and he lives in Coimbra, where he studies Philosophy. A poet and fiction writer, he works as a publisher, with a strong interest in publishing poetry. He is the author of the poetry books Inima (Coimbra, A Mar Arte, 1994),  O Tempo e o Tédio (Viseu, Palimage, 1998) and A Fome da Pele (Viseu, Palimage, 2004); as a prose writer, he has published Rua do Almada [short stories] (Coimbra, A Mar Arte, 1995) and Dez Horas de Memória [novel] (Viseu, Palimage, 1999). His work has appeared in various anthologies, such as Regresso à Condição - a collection of poetry and painting (Viseu, Instituto Superior Politécnico de Viseu, 2001) and Isto é Poesia (Braga, Labirinto, 2004), and in the literary journals Palavra em Mutação and Oficina de Poesia (of which he is a co-editor). He has also been an active member of the poetry workshop "Oficina de Poesia".

Jorge Melícias
Was born in 1970. He is the author of aqueles que incendeiam os telhados 1994/96 (forthcoming), iniciação ao remorso (A Mar Arte, 1998), a luz nos pulmões (Quasi Edições, 2000), o dom circunscrito (Quasi Edições, 2003) and incubus (Quasi Edições, 2004). He has translated Elogios by Saint John-Perse (Quasi Edições, 2002), Poemas do Manicómio de Mondragon by Leopoldo María Panero (Alma Azul, 2003) and Ardem as Perdas by Antonio Gamoneda (Quasi Edições, 2004).

José Brites
Was born in Alcorochel, Portugal, in 1945, and immigrated to the United States in 1970 where he has lived since. His is a high school teacher, a writer and an artist. He was vice-president of the Fundação Cultural dos Imigrantes, and co-founder of various literary publications. He has published a novel and a book of short storys. His collections of poetry include Twenty Five Years of Poetry (1995), and Coisas do Coiso e da Coisa (1996).

José Ribeiro Ferreira

José Saramago

Laureano Silveira

Luís Adriano Carlos
Was born in 1959. In the 1980s, he published A Mecânica do Sexxo XX (1983) and Invenção do Problema (1986). These were followed by Livro de Receitas (2000), O Suicida Aprendiz (2002) and A Me­cânica do Sexxo XXI (2003). His forthcoming book is Confessionário Romântico, from which the poems presented at the 5th Meeting were taken. He is a Professor of Literature and a literary critic. His critical writings have been collected in the following books: Poesia Moderna e Dissolução, O Hipertexto Literário, Feno­menologia do Discurso Poético and O Arco-Íris da Poesia. He has edited and written introductions for works of various contemporary poets. He has also edited the fac-simile editions of the poetry journals Árvore (2003) and Cadernos de Poesia (forthcoming). A new collection of his essays is due to appear shortly: Uma Literatura no Inferno: Crítica I.

Luís Quintais

Manuel Afonso Gaspar

Manuel Alegre

Manuel Portela
Is the author of Cras! Bang! Boom! Clang! (1991), Pixel Pixel (1992), and Rimas Fodidas e Outros Textos Escolares (1994). He has had various exhibitions of his work, and has curated a group exhibition of International Concrete Poetry. He has also given several “performances”. He has translated works by William Blake and Laurence Sterne.

Maria Azenha

Nuno Júdice

Regina Guimarães
Regina Guimarães, also known as Corbe, was born in Oporto, in 1957. In tandem with her poetry, published in rare editions of a confidential nature, she has developed work in the areas of theatre, translation, song, drama, art education and video. She worked as a Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Oporto and at ESMAE. She co-founded and directed the cinema magazine A Grande Ilusão and is the President of the Association Os Filhos de Lumière. Guimarães is also a member of the group who, among other activities of reflection and creation, publishes the newspaper PREC. Together with Ana Deus, she founded the band Três Tristes Tigres, and experimented freely with the spoken and sung word. She has directed workshops in writing and introduction to the cinema in various contexts. She lives and works with Saguenail since 1975. Hélastre is the sign of their common work.

Rosa Alice Branco

Sandra Guerreiro
Sandra Guerreiro (b. 1974) is a poet and translator. She has written poetry in Portuguese and English. She has published many poems in magazines in Portugal, in the United States and in Brazil, among them Oficina de Poesia, Bíblia, name and Sibila.
As a translator of poetry, she highlights the translations she did for the magazine Transnatural (Artez, Coimbra 2006) and the translation of a critical review of the book Algorritmos, by Ernesto Melo e Castro, for the Festival of digital poetry organized by the Arts Faculty of the University of the Filipines, in 2001.
Sandra Guerreiro has published poetry using both Portuguese and English: finger. print impressão.digital (author’s edition, Buffalo, NY, 2001) and in English: chunk (House Press, Buffalo, NY, 2003).
She has a poetry CD published by House Press, sound bites, in collaboration with poet Lauren Shufran (2003). Besides being a member of the group Oficina de Poesia since 1998, she is also a member of the group Blue Garrote, acollective of writers, actors, artists and activists established inBuffalo, NY, in 2003.

Teresa Rita Lopes
Teresa Rita Lopes, a Pessoa scholar, is a professor of literature at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published extensively on Fernando Pessoa and she has written on poetry and poetics. Her poetry books include Os dedos, os dias, as palavras (1987), Por assim dizer (1994) and Cicatriz (1996).

Tiago Gomez Rodrigues
Was born in Lisbon, in 1972. He holds a degree in Art and Communication by the Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He has produced and authored several works in the fields of video, music and multimedia.

Valter Hugo Mãe

Vasco Graça Moura
Writes in several genres. Some of his most recent poetry collections include Poemas escolhidos (1996), Uma Carta no inverno (1997), Poemas com pessoas (1997), Letras do fado vulgar (1997). Translations include Orfeu, by Rainer Maria Rilke (1994), and A Divina Comédia, by Dante Alighieri (1995), Antologia Poética (1998), by Seamus Heaney, and Os sonetos, by Walter Benjamin (1999). He has also written for the theatre: Mofino Mendes (1994). He is a noted diarist and columnist. He recently published a work of fiction: A morte de alguém (1998).

Vasco Pereira da Costa
Was born in Angra do Heroismo, Azores, in 1948. Poet and fiction writer, he has contributed to several newspapers and magazines. His recent titles include Sobre-ripas sobre-rimas (1994), Terras: poemas (1997) and My Californian friends: poesia (1999).

Virgínia Maria Dias
Was born on August 16 th, 1935, in the Alentejo, south of Portugal. Coming from a family of peasants, she only attended primary school. She left school (and her dream of becoming a teacher) at eleven to work in the fields and help her family. To her work in the fields and to her knowledge of nature, she soon added her love for words and song. In her own words: "it was that peasant day that taught me to be a poet".

Yvette K. Centeno

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