Discipline: Literature

Julio Marzan

Discipline: Literature
Region: Little Neck, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Julio Marzan is a Spanish poet and has published two books of poetry, one in English, Translations Without Originals (I. Reed Books), and one in Spanish, Puerta de Tierra. (U. of Puerto Rico Press) as well as poems translated for his Selected Poems: Luis Palés Matos (Arte Público Press, 2001) and in Inventing a Word: Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, among them, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House, New Letters, and Harper’s Magazine. His poems have appeared in anthologies, and the following college texts: Literature: Reading to Write (2011), The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature ( 1999-2007), Latino Boom: An Anthology of Latino Literature (Longman/Pearson, 2006), The Bedford Introduction to Poetry (1999), US: The Literature of a Multicultural Society (McGraw-Hill, 1998), Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (Holt, Rinehart, 1991). Currently, two poems appear in the past four editions of The Bedford Introduction to Literature. In May, 2007 he was appointed by the Queens Borough President the fourth Poet Laureate of Queens (2007-2010).

Studios

Irving Fine

Julio Marzan worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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