Eduardo Mitre

An Adjunct Associate Professor, Dr. Mitre was born in Oruro, Bolivia in 1943. He studied French literature in France and Latin American literature in the United States, where he attained his Ph.D. in Latin American literature at the University of Pittsburgh with a thesis on the poetry of Vicente Huidobro.

He has taught in many universities, including Dartmouth College, Columbia University, as well as St. John's University in New York, where he currently resides.

He has published many books of poetry, among them: Morada (1975), Ferviente Humo (1976), Mirabilia (1979), La Luz del Regreso (1990), Lineas de Otoqo (1993), and Camino de Cualquier Parte (1998). The publishing house of Brussels, Le Cormier, has also published two bilingual anthologies of his poetry: Mirabilia (1983), and Chroniques d'un Retour (1997). Many of his poems have been translated into English, Italian and Portuguese, and have been included in many anthologies of Latin American poetry.

Among his books of criticism are Huidobro: Hambre de Espacio y Sed de Cielo (1981) and El Arbol y la Piedra (1988), both published by Monte Avila of Caracas, Venezuela. As a translator, he has published an anthology of Contemporary Belgian poets, Urnias y Nupcias (1998), which was edited in Mexico.

He has given numerous lectures and readings throughout Latin America, United States and Europe. In 1999 became Miembro de Nzmero de la Academia Boliviana de la Lengua Correspondiente de la Real Espaqola.