Alberto Blanco

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Alberto Blanco, from Mexico City, is a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is considered one of Latin America's most outstanding poets. He has published more than 25 books of poetry. His poetry has been translated into more than a dozen different languages and just recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also well known as an art critic. He produced a series on Contemporary Mexican Art for Mexican TV, has written for the most important art museums in Mexico, and his essays have been compiled in two volumes: Las voces del ver (1997), and the forthcoming El eco de las formas, (2009), a volume that comprises 64 essays. He studied philosophy (UNAM), and Asian Studies (El Colegio de México) with a specialization in China. He has been a scholar/ writer for the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores. His books of poetry include Cromos (Carlos Pellicer poetry award, 1987), and Canto a la sombra de los animales (José Fuentes Mares national prize, 1988). In 2002, San Diego State University honored him with the "Alfonso X el Sabio" award for excellency in literary translation. He spent a year (1991) as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Irvine, where he completed a large anthology of contemporary American poetry, and has been an invited and distinguished professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), San Diego State University (SDSU), the University of San Diego (USD) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).