Mario Licón Cabrera (Chihuahua, México, 1949) is a prose writer, poet, translator and cultural promoter. He has published four collections of poetry, including Yuxtas (Back & Forth) a bilingual edition. His work has been included in many anthologies in Australia and abroad and his poetry has been translated into Italian and English. He received a Developing Writers’ Grant from the Australia Council in 2007. In 2015 he won the the Trilce Award for Poetry (Australia). Mario has translated many eminent Australian poets into Spanish and he is currently working on a three Mexican poets anthology for Vagabond Press’ Latin-American Poetry Series. He is a regular contributor for Dos Filos and Círculo de Poesía (México) and for the Sydney based online magazines Mascara Literary Review and El Español. His poem ‘Casa Efemera’ was selected by Welsh+Major for Metaphors of Space, curated by Mascara & MCHP at the Sydney Writers’ Festival using kirigami paper, folding and cutting.
Some On-Line references:
- CÍRCULO DE POESÍA/CIRCLE OF POETRY http://circulodepoesia.com/2010/07/foja-de-poesia-221-mario-licon-cabrera/
- CÍRCULO DE POESÍA/CIRCLE OF POETRY http://circulodepoesia.com/2016/03/mexican-poetry-mario-bojorquez-according-to-licon/
- CÍRCULO DE POESÍA/CIRCLE OF POETRY Translations of Ali Cobby Eckerman http://circulodepoesia.com/2012/01/poemas-de-ali-cobby-eckerman/
- FILI D’AQUILONE: magazine of images, ideas and Poesia. http://www.filidaquilone.it/num040cupertino.html
- Mascara: Peter Boyle reviews Yuxtas, by Mario Licón Cabrera http://mascarareview.com/peter-boyle-reviews-yuxtas-by-mario-licon-cabrera/
- Mascara: Mario Bojórquez translated by Mario Licón Cabrera http://mascarareview.com/mario-bojorquez-translated-by-mario-licon-cabrera/
- Mascara: Mario Licon Cabrera translates poems by Michael Brennan http://mascarareview.com/mario-licon-cabrera-translates-poems-by-michael-brennan/
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Michelle Cahill was Rochford Street Review’s featured writer in Issue 15 https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2015/07/06/featured-writer-michelle-cahill-biographical-note/
