''Sirena: Poesía, arte y crítica'' (''Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism'') was an international and multilingual

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founded in 2004 by Dr. Jorge R. Sagastume (

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), who edited the journal until 2011. After a feature article published in
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(JHUP) approached the college to offer the distribution of the journal, and from 2004 until 2012 was published and distributed by the JHUP. ''Sirena'' had published in over twenty languages. Every poem appeared in its original (if not English or Spanish) with facing translations into

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and

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. The journal had published poets such as

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

Günter Kunert Günter Kunert (; 6 March 1929 – 21 September 2019) was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann ...

Herta Müller Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf (german: Nitzkydorf, link=no), Timiș County in Romania, her native language is G ...

Pearse Hutchinson Pearse Hutchinson (16 February 1927 – 14 January 2012) was an Irish poet, broadcaster and translator. Childhood and education Hutchinson was born in Glasgow. His father, Harry Hutchinson, a Scottish printer whose own father had left Dublin to ...

Adrian Mitchell Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's Cam ...

Clara Janés Clara Janés Nadal, born in Barcelona (6 November 1940), is a Spanish writer of several literary genres. She is recognised as a poet and is distinguished as a translator of different central European and eastern languages. Since 2015, she has o ...

Homero Aridjis Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist and diplomat known for his rich imagination, poetry of lyrical beauty, and ethical independence. Family and early life Aridjis was born in Contepe ...

, and many other renowned poets. The journal also included critical essays on poetry, art, and

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as well as book reviews. ''Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism'' appeared biannually in March and October, with an average length of an issue being 160 pages. In 2012 the journal ceased to exist.

External links

''Sirena'' on the JHU Press website ''Sirena''
at

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