|
K-STATE SALINA PROFESSOR'S WORK PUBLISHED WITH MEXICAN POETS November 13, 2003 SALINA - Marlon Fick, Kansas State University assistant professor of English and speech, was the only North American poet published in a poetry anthology, "La región menos transparente." Fick teaches in K-State's College of Technology and Aviation, located on the Salina campus. " La región menos transparente," published by Colibri, first was released in June and already is in its second printing. Two of Fick's poems are included in the anthology, which is a survey of Latin literature covering approximately 300 years. Fick is the only non-Latin writer in the publication, though his poems have been translated into Spanish. Fick is the author of numerous poems, plays, essays, stories and translations, and has published in major literary journals including The New England Review, Prairie Schooner, The Marlboro Review, Poetry Daily, The Boston Review, Mudfish, The Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner and many others. He has received numerous awards and honors for his writing and translation, including honors from Mexico's secretary of foreign relations and the Conaculta Award, comparable to the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in the United States. Fick also has translated the work of 20 Mexican poets for the anthology "The River is Wide/El río es ancho," scheduled for publication by the University of New Mexico Press next year. His works also include “El niño de Safo,” “Histerias Mínimas” and “Selected Poems.” Prior to joining K-State at Salina in 2001, Fick was a professor and academic dean of advanced English curriculum at the University of the Americas and acting director for the Centro de Idiomas, in Mexico City. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas in philosophy, his master's from New York University in poetics and his doctorate from the University of Kansas in literature, specifically in comparative poetics. |