ORLANDO RICARDO MENES

Associate Professor

Department of English 4364 Foxfire Drive

The University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana 46628

Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (574) 243-1125

(574) 631-4110 Orlando.Menes.1@nd.edu

EDUCATION:

B.A. in English (June 1980)

University of Florida

M.A. in English (May 1982)

University of Florida

Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing: Poetry) [May 1998]

University of Illinois at Chicago

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

University of Illinois Graduate Fellowship (1995-96)

DISTINCTIONS, HONORS, AWARDS:

Creative Works

Furia, Finalist in the Foreword Magazine Poetry Book of the Year Award (2005).

“Homage to Lupe” (first published in Prairie Schooner and later Furia) chosen as the

poem for November 12, 2005, by Poetry Daily at www.poems.com (20,000+

subscribers).

“Fury” (first published in Gulf Coast and later Furia) chosen as the poem for July 8,

2004, by Poetry Daily at www.poems.com.

“Osaín,” Winner of an Illinois Arts Council 2000 Literary Award (nominated by Crab

Orchard Review).

Borderlands with Angels, Winner of the Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest (out of 150+

poets) [1994].

“Washington Avenue, Miami Beach (1987),” Nominee for a Pushcart Prize (1995).

Individual Merit

Winner, Charles Goodnow Memorial Award for Creative Writing, Chicago Bar

Association (1997).

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:

Furia [Poems]. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2005. 76 pages. (Reviewed in Library

Journal, El Paso Times, and Chicago Journal.)

Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred [Anthology]. Tempe, Arizona:

Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2004. 157 pages. Editor and author of the

introduction and one appendix. (Reviewed in Afro-Hispanic Review, The Caribbean

Writer, Crab Orchard Review, and El Paso Times.)

Rumba atop the Stones [Poems]. Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2001. 90 pages.

(Reviewed in The Caribbean Writer and recommended in Ploughshares.)

Borderlands with Angels [Poems]. Astoria, Oregon: Bacchae Press, 1994. 32 pages.

(Reviewed in Pennine Ink [United Kingdom].)

Manuscripts Under Consideration

Translations from the Poetry of Alfonsina Storni. Under consideration by Susquehanna

University Press. 189 pages. Translator and author of the introduction.

INDIVIDUAL PUBLICATIONS:

Poems in Journals

“Cenobites.” Third Coast, no. 23 (Fall 2006), forthcoming.

“Curandera” (bilingual format). New Laurel Review, Cuban Issue, vol. 23 (2005), 20-21.

“Arroz.” North American Review, vol. 290, no. 5 (September-October 2005), 24.

“Runt Massey.” River Styx, nos. 69/70 (30th Anniversary Issue, 2005), 135-136.

“Bacalao.” Epoch, vol. 54, no. 1 (2005 series), 48.

“Mythopoesis,” “Coolie,” “Pharmacopeia,” and “Drought in Havana, 1998.” Sycamore

Review, vol. 17, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2005), 40-46.

“Homage to Lupe” and “Miss Elliott.” Prairie Schooner, vol. 79, no. 1 (Spring 2005),

115-117.

“Old Man Grier.” Crab Orchard Review, vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2004), 179-180.

“Fury.” Gulf Coast, vol. 16, no. 2 (2004), 19-20.

“Drought.” The Cream City Review, vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring 2004), 111.

“Women of Guaraguasi.” Many Mountains Moving, vol. 5, no. 2 (June 2003), 102-103.

“Saint Rustica, Patroness of Tobacco Growers.” Green Mountains Review, vol. 16, no.1,

164-165.

“Raspa” and “Frogs.” Indiana Review, vol. 25, no. 1 (May 2003), 153-156.

“Elegy for Great-Uncle Julio, Cane Cutter.” The Caribbean Writer, no. 16 (Spring 2002),

39-40.

“Sal.” Crab Orchard Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2001), 147-49.

“Altiplano,” “Ofelia,” and “Juancito’s Wake.” New Letters, vol. 67, no. 1 (Fall 2001),

121-27.

“Vicio/Vice” and “Bugarrones.” Chelsea, no. 70/71 (Summer 2001), 136-39.

“Miami, South Kendall, 1969”; “Palma y Jagüey”; and “Sodomy.” Spoon River Poetry

Review, vol. 26, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2001), 37-42.

“Guajiro,” “Letter to Mirta Yáñez,” and “Hair.” Blue Mesa Review, no. 12 (Spring/

Summer 2000), 40-41; 70-73.

“Piedad and Her Tonsured Seagulls.” The Caribbean Writer, no. 14 (Spring 2000), 30-31.

“Caliban Cimarrón.” Samizdat (Lake Forest College), no. 4 (1999), 9.

“Siglo de Oro” and “Interlinear Sade.” ACM, no. 35 (1999), 92-94.

“Bitter Algae.” Notre Dame Review, no. 8 (Summer 1999), 73-75.

“Osaín” and “God’s Veins.” Crab Orchard Review, vol. 4, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1999),

129-32.

“An Island Called Wewee.” The Caribbean Writer, no. 13 (Spring 1999), 45.

“AfroCuba.” Callaloo, vol. 22, no. 1 (1999), 73-74.

“Dido’s Lament” and “Iroko.” Samizdat, no. 2 (1999), 5.

“Requiem Shark with Lilies.” Ploughshares, vol. 24, no. 4 (Winter 1998-99), 133-34.

“Tío Manolo” and “Abuela Nena.” Artful Dodge, nos. 34/35 (Fall 1998), 4-8.

“Agua de Coco,” “Isabel Kongo,” and “The Tropics Reclaim Calvary.” The Americas

Review, vol. 25, nos. 1-2 (Fall 1998), 66-71.

“Obstinacy” and “Coral Way, Near the Roads.” Mangrove, vol. 5, no. 1 (Fall 1998), 126-27.

“The Music of Lifeless Creatures.” The Antioch Review, vol. 55, no. 2 (Spring 1997),

176-77.

“Crib of Reeds,” “Sade,” and “Widowers.” Chelsea, no. 61 (January 1997), 15-18.

“Alina.” Apalachee Quarterly, no. 46 (Winter 1997), 50-51.

“Fish Heads” and “Doña Flora’s Hothouse.” Indiana Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring

1996), 114-17.

“Alchemy and Vinegar.” Rio: A Journal of the Arts (on-line), no. 1.

“A Sixth-Grade Angel’s Letter to God.” Apalachee Quarterly, no. 43 (1995), 36-37.

“The Stonebreaker's Daughter.” Negative Capability (1995).

“Washington Avenue, Miami Beach (1987).” The Ohio Poetry Review (Fall/Winter

1994), 45.

“Clouds.” Private Arts 7 (1992), 128.

“Asylum Song.” Birmingham Poetry Review, no. 6 (Spring-Summer 1991), 29.

“Bordello.” Permafrost, vol. 13, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 1990), 55.

“A Lover’s Leaving” and “Saint Augustine Beach.” Poem, no. 63 (1990), 11-12.

“Prayer.” Gryphon (Fall 1987), 50-51.

“Cat’s Cradle Without a String.” The Florida Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (1987), 33-34.

Short Stories in Journals

“Squid.” Crab Orchard Review, vol. 8, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2003), 55-58.

“Faith.” Mangrove, no. 11 (2002), 39-50.

Poems Reprinted in Anthologies

“Bugarrones.” Telling Tongues: A Latino/a Anthology on Language Experience, Eds.

Louis Mendoza and Toni Nelson Herrera. National City, California/Granada Hills,

California: Calaca Press/Red Salmon Press, 2006, 43-44.

“Letter to Mirta Yáñez.” Approaching Literature in the 21st Century: An Introduction to

Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Eds. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl. Boston and New York:

Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005, 690-691.

“Sodomy.” The Poetry of Men’s Lives: An International Anthology, Eds. Fred

Moramarco and Al Zolynas. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2004, 276-278.

“Raspa.” Red, White, and Blue: Poets on the Promise of America, Eds. Virgil Suárez

and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004, 129.

“Alina.” Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace, Eds. Virgil Suárez and

Ryan G. Van Cleave (contracted with Partisan Press).

“AfroCuba.” The Best of Callaloo Poetry: A Special 25th Anniversary Issue, Ed. Charles

H. Rowell (vol. 24, no. 3, Summer 2001), 833-34.

“Letter to Mirta Yáñez” and “Coral Way, Near the Roads.” American Diaspora: Poetry

of Displacement, Eds. Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University

of Iowa Press, 2001, 120-22.

“Bone and Blood” and “Saint Rose of Lima.” Place of Passage: Catholic Poets Writing

about Their Faith, Eds. Janet McCann and David Craig. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line

Press, 2000, 256-57.

“Fish Heads/Cabezas de Pescado” and “The Stonebreaker’s Daughter/La Hija de un

Cantero.” Astillas de Luz/Shards of Light, Ed. Olivia Maciel. Chicago: Tía Chucha

Press, 1998, 80-87.

“Asylum Song.” Write in Our Midst: An Anthology of South Florida Writers, Ed.

Michael Hettich. Miami Book Fair International, 1993, 16.

Critical Essays in Journals

Introductory essay for Alfonsina Storni’s To Oppose the Basalt Rhetoric. Mid-American

Review, Translation Chapbook Series (forthcoming in 2006).

“Forbidden Altars: An Aleyo’s (Nonbeliever's) Attraction to Santería.” Afro-Hispanic

Review, vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 2001), 3-7.

Introductory essay on the Cuban poet José Kozer. Artful Dodge, nos. 34/35 (Fall 1998),

9-10.

Introductory essay on the Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni. Seneca Review (Fall 1996),

53-55.

“Juan Luis Vives” (glossary article). Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, and Boundaries,

Eds. William A. Covino and David Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 92-93.

Translations in Journals

To Oppose the Basalt Rhetoric, a chapbook of seven poems by Alfonsina Storni: “Men in

the City,” “Sadness,” “Twilight,” “Sundays,” “Silent March,” “The 20th Century,”

and “The Word.” Mid-American Review, Translation Chapbook Series (forthcoming

in 2006).

“Lighthouse in the Night,” “Toad and Sea,” “Fog,” “Street,” and “Lines to the Sadness of

Buenos Aires” (Alfonsina Storni). New England Review, vol. 27, no. 1 (2006), 56-60.

“Drizzle,” “City Jungles,” “I Live on the Sea Floor,” and “The World Is Sour” (Alfonsina

Storni). Sycamore Review, vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring 2004), 29-35.

“Clouds and Sails” (Alfonsina Storni). Southern Humanities Review, vol. 37, no. 1

(Winter 2003), 34-35.

“‘I Shall Go to the June Sea’: Mariano Brull’s Contribution to the Vanguardia [Avant-Garde]” (Klaus Müller-Bergh). Latin American Writers, Supplement 1, Eds. Carlos Solé

and Klaus Müller-Bergh. New York: Scribner’s, 2002.

“Notion of José Kozer” and “But I Come Back to the Invisible Load of Verses” (José

Kozer). International Poetry Review, vol. 27, no. 2 (Fall 2001), 40-43.

“Yom Kippur” and “Holocaust” (José Kozer). ACM, no. 39 (2001), 148-151.

“Abraham Marcus Materim . . . ,” “Dad’s Grammar,” and “Gaudeamus” (José Kozer).

Prism International, vol. 40, no. 1 (Fall 2001), 25-27.

“My Father, Who Is Still Alive” and “Grandfather Would Submit His Propositions” (José

Kozer). Poet Lore, vol. 94, no. 3 (Fall 1999), 10-11.

“Kafka” and “I’ve Come to Call Thirteen Men” (José Kozer). Willow Springs, no. 44

(June 1999), 42-43.

“Mom’s Grammar,” “Desolation of Rebb Leizer,” “This Is the Book of Psalms That

Made My Mother Dance,” and “Lupe Singing in the Kitchen” (José Kozer). Artful

Dodge, nos. 34/35 (Fall 1998), 9-14.

“Inquisitor,” “A Blind Man,” and “To the Coyote” (Jorge Luis Borges); “Black Woman,”

“Eyes of Eleggua,” and “Coffee” (Nancy Morejón). Luna, vol 1, no.1 (Spring 1998),

157-160.

“Algo común en diciembre” (Michael Anania). Álora (Málaga, Spain), no.12, 10-11.

“Portrait of a Boy Named Siegfried,” “To Eros,” “Two Words,” “The Hunter of

Landscapes,” “Beach,” “Grey Morning,” “Prayer to Prometheus,” and “Siren”

(Alfonsina Storni). Seneca Review, vol. 26, no. 2 (Fall 1996), 53-67.

“Portrait of García Lorca” (Alfonsina Storni). International Poetry Review, vol. 21, no.1

(1995), 18-21.

INVITED LECTURES AND ADDRESSES:

Poetry Readings and Panel Discussions. “The Resilience of the Human Spirit: An

International Gathering of Poets.” The Guthrie Center. Great Barrington,

Massachusetts. September 16-17, 2006.

Poetry Reading. Milkweed Editions Spring Poetry Reading. The Open Book.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 8, 2006.

Poetry Reading. Palabra Pura Reading Series. The Guild Complex. Chicago, Illinois.

March 15, 2006.

Poetry Reading. Indiana Poetry Festival. Indianapolis Arts Center. October 16, 2005.

Poetry Reading and Paper Presentation. “The Art and Craft of Literary Translation.”

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. October 10, 2005.

Poetry Reading. American Library Association Conference. McCormick Place

Convention Center. Chicago, Illinois. June 25-27, 2005.

Poetry Reading. Printers Row Bookfair. Chicago, Illinois. June 11-12, 2005.

Poetry Reading. L.A. Times Festival of Books. University of California at Los Angeles.

April 22-24, 2005.

Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion. “Milkweed Editions’ 25th Anniversary

Celebration.” Associated Writing Programs Conference. Vancouver, British

Columbia. March 30-April 2, 2005.

Translation Reading and Presentation. “Found Voices: South and Central American

Women Writers at the Forefront of Modernism.” American Literary Translators

Association 27th Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. October 27-30, 2004.

Poetry Reading. Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature. University of

Dayton. October 22-23, 2004.

Paper Presentation. “Editing the Anthology Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the

Sacred.” Towards a Theory for Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi.

University of New Mexico. May 12-14, 2004.

Poetry Reading. Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois. October 21, 2003

Panel-Discussion Moderator and Organizer. “Latino Poetics.” American Literary

Association Conference. Long Beach, California. March 13-15, 2003.

Translation Reading and Discussion. “Reading Mariano Brull.” Department of Spanish,

French, Italian, and Portuguese. University of Illinois at Chicago. April 3, 2002.

Poetry Reading. Writing Out Loud Program. Michigan City Public Library. Michigan

City, Indiana. September 7, 2002.

Panel-Discussion Moderator and Organizer. “Cuban-American Writers: One Homeland,

Multiple Voices.” Associated Writing Programs Conference. New Orleans,

Louisiana. March 6-9, 2002.

Poetry Reading. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Department of Classical and

Modern Languages. University of Louisville, Kentucky. February 21-23, 2002.

Poetry Reading. Books and Books. Coral Gables, Florida. January 10, 2002.

Poetry Reading. Haggar Parlor, Saint Mary’s College. November 5, 2001.

Poetry Reading. San Antonio Inter-American Bookfair and Literary Festival. Trinity

University. San Antonio, Texas. October 11-13, 2001.

Paper Presentation and Poetry Reading. “Forbidden Altars: An Aleyo’s (Nonbeliever's)

Attraction to Santería.” Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature.

University of Dayton. October 13-14, 2000.

Poetry Reading and Evening-Session Poetry Workshops. Antioch Writers’ Workshop,

Antioch College. Yellow Springs, Ohio. August 5-12, 2000.

Poetry Reading. Books & Company. Dayton, Ohio. April 2000.

Poetry Reading. Snite Museum. University of Notre Dame. March 2, 2000.

Poetry Reading. Paul Lawrence Dunbar House. Dayton, Ohio. December 3, 1999.

Paper Presentation and Poetry Reading. “Mestizaje as Visionary Poetics in the Work of

Victor Hernández Cruz.” Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature.

Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. October 15-16, 1999.

Poetry Reading. “Caribbean Voices.” The Guild Complex. Chicago, Illinois. September

21, 1999.

Poetry Reading. Illinois Philological Association, Third Annual Conference. University

of Illinois at Springfield. April 8-10, 1999.

Poetry Reading. Logan Square Public Library. Chicago, Illinois. March 1999.

Poetry Reading. Tia Chucha Press. Barnes & Noble Bookstore. Skokie, Illinois.

November 20, 1998.
Roundtable Discussion. Mapping Latino/Latin American Chicago: Theoretical and

Cultural Dimensions in the Age of Globalization. "Latin American Writing in

Chicago—a Roundtable.” Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association and

UIC. September 28-29, 1998.

Paper Presentation and Worshop. “The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation.” Department of Modern Languages, Loyola University, Chicago. March 29, 1996.

Poetry Reading. Printers Row Bookfair. Chicago, Illinois. June 3-4, 1995.

Poetry Reading. Youngstown State University Poetry Center. Youngstown, Ohio.

February 24, 1995.

Poetry Reading. Private in Public Reading Series. Deson-Saunders Gallery. Chicago,

Illinois. February 26, 1993.

PERSONAL INTERVIEWS:

Interviewed by Ellen Wadey for the show Prosody, WYEP 91.3 FM, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania. Aired on June 27, 2006.

Interviewed by W.T. Pfefferle in his The Poetry of Place: Interviews and Tales from the

Road. Salt Lake City: Utah State University Press, 2005, 22-24.

Interviewed by Georgia Pabst for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Takes Five” column,

2A. October 9, 2005.

Interviewed by Steve Edwards for the Eight Forty-Eight Show, Chicago Public Radio,

WBEZ 91.5 FM. Aired on August 9, 2005.

CURRENT POSITION:

Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Notre Dame (2000 to present)

Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame (2005 to present)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Florida (1981 to 1982)

Teacher, Dade County Public Schools, Florida (1983 to 1987)

Instructor, PACE program, Central Texas College, aboard the USS Leyte Gulf (1989)

Instructor, English Department, Miami-Dade Community College (1989 to 1992)

Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Illinois at Chicago (1992 to 1998)

Lecturer, English Department, University of Illinois at Chicago (1998 to 1999)

Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Dayton, Ohio (1999 to 2000)

MFA THESES DIRECTED:

Sandra L. Dedo, Violent Fragilities, Spring 2006.

Mary Dixon, Plain Edges, Spring 2006.

Danna S. Ephland, Gemini’s Tracks, Spring 2006.

Nathan D. Gunsch, Mishappening, Spring 2006.

Joseph Michael Hughes, Corpora Delicti: A Testimony of Bodies, Spring 2006.

Francisco Aragón, Managua is Madrid, Spring 2003.

Daniel Aaron Sumrall, Of all anonymous men above dirt, Spring 2003.

MFA THESES READ:

Shannon E. Berry, Family of Origin, 2005.

Kevin Ducey, Rhinoceros, 2005.

Rebecca Hazelton Pennell, Your Life as Parable, 2005.

Mark N. Stafford, [Inattention], 2005.

James Matthew Wilson, Mythologies from Downriver and Other Poems, 2005.

Elizabeth Fredericks, Son et lumière, 2003.

Christopher Andrew Gerben, 14, 2003.

Justin Haynes, Whole, 2003

Christina Kate Kubasta, Green Bone: A Midwestern, 2003.

Charles Pastrana Valle, On a Theory of Boxes: What Brown Can Do for You, 2003.

Jenny Boully, The Body, 2002.

Jennifer Marie Bryant, Connections, 2002.

Nora Elizabeth Edwards, Porchlight, 2002.

Paige Tilton Capacci, Hard Count, 2001.

David Alyn Mayer, Picture Show, 2001.

Amy L. Reese, Stranded, Spring 2001.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Associated Writing Programs

Modern Language Association

American Literary Translators Association

SERVICE:

University-Wide

Faculty Senate, 2005-

Institute for Latino Studies (ILS)

Advisory and Planning Committee, 2002-

Preliminary Judge for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, 2004

Curriculum Sub-Committee, 2002-2003

Executive Committee for Minor in Latino Studies, 2002-2003

English Department

Faculty Liaison, Notre Dame Literary Festival, 2005-

Search Committee for the Assistant Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry) position, 2005-

2006

Search Committee for the Senior Poet position, 2004-2005

Poetry Delegate to MFA Admissions Process, 2004-

Modern Poetry and Poetics Working Group, 2003-

Co-Planner and Co-Organizer, Notre Dame Latino Poets Conference. Moderated All

Panel Discussions and Presentations. November 21-23, 2002.

Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2001-

Search Committee for the Latino/o Literature position, 2000-2002

Profession

Editor, “Eleven Latino Poets,” a poetry supplement to the Notre Dame Review, no. 17 (Winter 2004), 68-99. (Note: Richard Garcia’s “Adam and Eve’s Dog” was selected

by Paul Muldoon for Best American Poetry 2005.)

Associate Editor, Rio: A Journal of the Arts, 1998-1999

REFERENCES:

Anne Winters, Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Michael Lieb, Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Clark Hulse, Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago