Lourdes Vázquez brings us a new poetry collection this year. Published by Pro Latina Press (Gala de Poesía collection, 2026), ¿Ves? Selección Personal / Do You See? Personal Selection (2007-2018) is a bilingual edition featuring a selection of Vázquez’s stirring and inspiring poems translated into English by Enriqueta Carrington.

Selfa A. Chew (University of Texas at El Paso) writes: “¿Ves? Selección Personal / Do You See? Personal Selection is a masterly example of how poetry and translation can be simultaneously artistic and political processes. Lourdes Vázquez invites us to observe it all through her eyes, while Enriqueta Carrington offers us a window through which to appreciate that vision in another language.”

Lourdes Vázquez is the author of numerous works of poetry and prose with numerous awards. Originally from Puerto Rico, she lives in the United States. Among her recent work we find Fugas (Furtivas: 2023), Puro paisaje (La Criba, 2023), Orígenes de lo eterno y así las cosas (Verbum, 2020), The Tango Files (translated by Brigidina Gentile, Italy: Arcoiris, 2016), Appunti dalla Terra Frammentata (Italia: Edizione Letterarie, 2012), Un enigma: esas muñecas (Madrid: Torremozas, 2015), Honorable Mention 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry (USA); and Adagio con fugas y ciertos afectos (Madrid: Verbum, 2013). [. . .]

Vázquez’s writing has appeared widely in journals and anthologies and has been translated into English, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Galician. She has been a member of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artist Initiative, Literature Panel, and the judge for the National Poetry Series/Miami Book Fair, Paz Poetry Award. She has been awarded the Juan Rulfo Short Story Prize (France) for the story “La Estatuilla”. She is the former curator of the Latin American collection at Rutgers University Library. Her papers are held at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Archives at Hunter College (CUNY). 

Enriqueta Carrington’s poetry in Spanish and English has appeared in many journals and anthologies. Her poetry translations from the Spanish have appeared in The New Formalist, Rattapallax, and A Gathering of the Tribes, among other journals. Her translations from the Sicilian have appeared in Descant (Canada). She is the translator of several volumes of poetry, including Treasury of Mexican Love Poems (Hippocrene Books, Treasury of Love Series) and Samandar: Libro de Viajes/Book of Travels by Lourdes Vázquez (Editorial Tsé-Tsé, Argentina).

She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Rutgers University and taught for many years at the National University of Mexico, the University of California at Berkeley, Temple University, and Rutgers University. In September 2013 she retired from mathematics to become a full-time translator and writer.

See more at https://www.prolatinapress.com/

Also see https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lourdes-vazquez and https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/translation-fellows/enriqueta-carrington

For full reviews (in Spanish), see https://www.todoliteratura.es/noticia/63426/poesia/ves-de-lourdes-vazquez.html and https://hawansuyo.blogspot.com/2026/10/ves-de-lourdes-vazquez-por-luis-benitez.html