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<\/p>\nWhile I studied at the University of Newcastle in 1999, I had the pleasure of attending a whole-semester Poetry Workshop by Jo Shapcott<\/a>, twice winner of UK’s National Poetry Competition. During those months I wrote several poems that, as often happens with art and time, I see today as works of youth<\/em>, to put it mildly. Still, here are a few of them.<\/p>\n One of my first assignments during Jo Shapcott’s workshops was to translate a poem from a language I didn’t know. The poem turned out to be a Polish translation of her own “The Mad Cow Talks Back<\/a>“.<\/p>\n The experiment was interesting, and years later, while reading her volume of free versions of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke “Tender Taxes<\/a>“, I came up with the character of Lavaca, a cow who likes to ruminate poems in languages she doesn’t know, then moo a response back.<\/p>\n On July 26th, 2008, I created two new blogs where Lavaca could express herself either in English<\/a> or Spanish<\/a>. Readers can suggest poems (in other languages) for Lavaca to ruminate, through the Contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can read the poems at Lavaca Moos Back<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Lavaca Moos Back<\/h4>\n