Carlos Ortega Gerrero, cultural attaché of the Embassy of Mexico, is excited about the I Biennial of Poetry, and intends to bring five Mexican Poets to the meeting in September. In Brasilia for the last two months, Gerrerro visited the coordinator do the biennial, Antonio Miranda, at the Brasilia National Library. He is eager to help translate the Mexican poets in order to present to the public their works and take place at the Official Anthology of the I Biennial of Poetry of Brasilia.
Mr Gerrero is married to the poet María Romeu. He will name the participating poets, already translated in other idioms. He said that in Mexico there are good poetry reviews: “but they publish good and bad poets”, he said.
To date, there are some expressive names of the contemporary Mexican poetry, he cited: Rubén Bonifaz Nuno; Eduardo Lizalde; José Luiz Pacheco; Gabriel Zaid; Marco Antonio Campos; Julio Trujillo, among others. High quality poets, according to him are: Rosário Castellanos; Elsa Cross; Pura López Colomé; Tedi Lopez Mills; Verónica Volkov; Coral Bracho; and his wife, María Romeu.
Carlos Ortega Guerrero is the author of Travessia (poems) and other three books, and he was granted the prize Cuento Policiaco de la Ciudad de México (1988) and Nayarit Poetry Prize (1974).
