Kirmen Uribe - On The International Scene

On The International Scene

Kirmen Uribe has participated in a number of international literary festivals, among them New York’s PEN World Voices Festival, the Berlin international poetry festival, the Taipei international poetry festival, the Manchester (England) literature festival, the Bordeaux ‘¡Mira!’ festival, the Vilenica (Slovenia) international festival (twice) and the Havana (Cuba) international poetry festival. He has given lectures and led seminars at a number of internationally known universities, among them Stanford, Brown, New York University, City University of New York, California Institute of the Arts, University of California-San Diego, Taipei’s Fu-Jen Catholic University, UNAM and Iberoamericana in Mexico City, the National University in Lima, and the University of Warsaw.

His poems have appeared in renowned periodicals and international anthologies. In May 2003 The New Yorker magazine published his poem “May.” Since then his work has appeared in other U.S. journals as well. In 2006, the Berlin online magazine Lyrikline published a selection of ten of his poems in German translation; it was the first time that journal of international poetry had ever published work by a Basque writer. In 2008, the American literary critics Kevin Prufer and Wayne Millar included three of Uribe’s poems in their New European Poets anthology. The Harvard Book Review has said of him, “Uribe’s voice speaks across cultures…. His poems may be rooted, but they bloom outwards.”