Jeannine Marie Pitas, PhD
Academic Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
“Cecilia Vicuña y las ruinas del lenguaje,” [sic], Año 10, nr. 25 (July 2020). Online publication: https://www.aplu.org.uy/revista-sic.
“Errantry as Resistance in the Poetry of Marosa di Giorgio.” Chasqui 48.2 (November 2019), pp. 71-83.
“Ekfrasis y Energaia en Las musas inquietantes de Cristina Peri Rossi.” In Céfiro, Vol. 10.1 and 10.2 (2010), pp. 47-68.
Academic Book Chapters (peer reviewed)
“On the Ruins of Memory in Miron Bialoszewski’s A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising” In Europe in its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other. David MacDonald and Mary DeCoste, Eds. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2014, pp. 187-204.
Academic Book Chapters (not peer reviewed)
“Tourists as Primitives? Inverting the Tourist Gaze in The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier.” In The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World. Russell Cobb, Ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 123-138.
“Between the Sharp Corners: Rosa Laborde's Leo. In Fronteras Vivientes: Eight Latino/a Canadian Plays. Natalie Alvarez, Ed. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2013, pp. 110-115.
“Houses of Corn and Full Inclusion: On Latina/o Community Based Theatre in Toronto.” In Latino/a Canadian Theatre and Performance. Natalie Alvarez, Ed. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2013, pp. 87-108.
Full-length Poetry Books
Or/And. Orleans, MA: Paraclete Press, 2023.
Things Seen and Unseen. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 2019.
Poetry Chapbooks
thank you for dreaming. Long Beach, CA: Lummox Press, 2018.
A Place To Go. Toronto: Lyricalmyrical, 2015.
Our Lady of the Snow Angels. Toronto: Lyricalmyrical, 2012.
Selected Poems in Journals and Anthologies
“child / in slow motion” in U.S. Catholic, October 2024.
“In the absence of family stories I write my own” in Braided Way, October 2024.
“Soul Mate” and “How to Recover from Joy” in Dappled Things, Spring 2024.
“When Teeth Hurt” in US Catholic, June 2023.
“When the War Comes Here” in Pigeon Pages, April 2023.
“Assemblage,” “Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell,” and Sonnet” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2022.
“Uruguayan Poets Lives Forever,” “Outside the Chapel,” “Madonna of the Two Scars,” “To The Polar Vortex,” and “A Gift from Hephaestus” in Live Encounters, February 2022.
“In Praise of Revithia” in Anglican Theological Review, November 2021.
“Buen Camino” in Braided Way, December 9, 2021.
“During the Sixth Extinction” in From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology, Edward Hower and Jack Hopper, Eds. Ithaca, NY: Cayuga Lake Books, 2021.
“La Llorona” and “Magdalene” in Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry and the Future of the Faith, Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke and Ana Kothe, Eds. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2021.
“History Lessons,” “The river that cuts a country in two” and “During the Sixth Extinction” in Vita Poetica, July 2021.
“Prayer” and “Garlic” in Today’s American Catholic, July 27, 2021.
“Nephophobia” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Spring 2021.
“Ghost Dance Krakowiak” in Today’s American Catholic, March 11, 2021.
“Magdalena” in Pensive, Fall 2020.
“Mycophobia,” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2020.
“Simone Answers Her Letters” and “What Rafa Writes,” in U.S. Catholic, Summer 2020.
“Rainstorm, far from home,” in Convivium, Winter 2020.
“This is not a homeless shelter” in About Place Journal, October 2019.
“Analog Abecedarian” in U.S. Catholic, September 2019.
“June 24,” “Panic” and “Wings of Desire,” Luna Luna, July 2019.
“Bachata” and “Zeibekiko of the Olympians and Me,” Ocotillo Review, Summer 2019.
“Or” in Eastern Iowa Review, March 2019.
“Mary Comes Down” and “Macondo” in Dappled Things 2018 (These poems were reprinted with permission from earlier publications).
“Frida” in Spotlight: Poetry. The Buffalo News, July 2018.
“American Gothic” in Lummox 6, 2018.
“Rosary” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2018.
“Macondo” in Canthius, Fall 2017.
“Mary Comes Down” in Lummox 7, 2017. Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
“June 4, 1989,” “Amaranta,” “thank you for dreaming” and “the system” in Seedings Journal 4, Fall 2017.
“Augustine's Lover” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2017.
“Seeds” and “To an Immigrant” in U.S. Catholic, 2017.
“Pearl” in 3Elements Review, 2017. Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018.
“Fish” in IthacaLit, Winter 2016.
“River Rooms” in Moonsick Magazine, Issue 8, 2015.
Creative Nonfiction
“The Two Lazaruses” in Geez Magazine 71 “Will These Bones Live?,” Fall 2023.
“Czesław Miłosz: Poetry as Witness and Resistance” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2023.
“‘You Can't Go Home Again’...Until You Do,” Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 5, Spring 2021.
“Crossing the Red-Blue Divide Starts at Home,” Today’s American Catholic, June 15, 2021.
“Honeymoon,” named a finalist for the Malahat Review Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, October 2018; published in The Literary Review, July 2019 and nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize.
“Vocation: An Ongoing Journey” in Tina Beattie, Ed. Visions and Vocations. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2018. pp. 211-214.
Selected Journalistic Articles
“The political isn’t just personal. It’s spiritual as well,” U.S. Catholic, November 8, 2024.
“Bridging the Ideological Divide,” The Christian Century, November 1, 2024.
“The Opioid Crisis Calls for a Catholic Response,” U.S. Catholic, April 1, 2024.
“A Place to Call Home,” U.S. Catholic, April 1, 2023.
“The Prophetic Church in Ortega’s Nicaragua,” The Christian Century, January 4, 2023.
“In a death-denying culture, art makes mortality real,” US Catholic, November 1, 2022.
“Latino parishes across US work to overcome coronavirus vaccine hesitancy,” The National Catholic Reporter, September 22, 2021.
“Fighting for the Humanities at Church-Related Colleges,” The Christian Century, August 19, 2021.
“Government Denial is Raising the Stakes of COVID-19 in Nicaragua,” The Christian Century, August 24, 2020.
“Catholic Workers confront the pandemic, see a ‘respite for Mother Earth,’” The National Catholic Reporter, June 6, 2020.
“Catholics supporting #noDAPL movement see a call to protect creation,” The National Catholic Reporter, February 9, 2017.
“Ai Weiwei y la estética de la pregunta.” Article on Ai Weiwei published by El País Cultural, Montevideo, February 28, 2014.
“Testimonios de un origen: Polonia en Polanski.” Article on Roman Polanski published by El País Cultural, Montevideo, April 4, 2008.
“La Poesía de Wislawa Szymborska: cada palabra es esencial.” Article on Wisława Szymborska published by El País Cultural, Montevideo, June 1, 2007.
Translations from Spanish to English
Poetry Books
A sea at dawn by Silvia Guerra, co-translation project with Jesse Lee Kercheval. Latrobe, PA: Eulalia Books, 2023.
Memory Rewritten by Mariella Nigro, co-translation project with Jesse Lee Kercheval. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2023.
Tropical Rhapsody by Teobaldo Noriega. Ottawa: Lugar Común, 2022.
Carnation and Tenebrae Candle by Marosa di Giorgio. New York: Cardboard House Press, 2020.
We do not live in vain by Selva Casal. El Paso, TX: Veliz Books, 2020.
Echo of the Park by Romina Freschi. Latrobe, PA: Eulalia Books, 2019.
Materia Prima by Amanda Berenguer. Eds. Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson. Contributing member of a team of eight translators. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019.
I Remember Nightfall by Marosa di Giorgio. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017. Longlisted for the 2018 Three Percent Best Translated Book Award and Shortlisted for the 2018 American Literary Translators' Association's National Translation Award. Selections from this translation were published in Versal in 2008 and Rhino in 2009, for which they received the 2009 Translation Prize, as well as Gulf Coast and The Literary Review in 2015, Action Yes in 2016, and Tupelo Quarterly, Ohio Edit and Asymptote in 2017.
Sleepwalker's Ballad by Pablo Galante. Buenos Aires: Huesos de Jibia, 2016.
The History of Violets by Marosa Di Giorgio. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010.
Prose Books
I'd like you to hear the song I'm listening to as I write this by Manuela Espinal Solano. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 2023.
An introduction to Octavio Paz by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, translated from the Spanish. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 2018.
Translated Poems in Journals
Selva Casal (Uruguay)
“XVIII,” “XXI,” and “To My Mother” in West Branch, Fall 2019.
“Today I'd kiss strangers,” “Sometimes a terrible darkness,” “The telephones are ringing,” “In the beginning was chaos,” and “It was all surrounded by angels” in Spoon River Poetry Review, Summer 2019.
“It's about a house made of water,” “I want the sea in my room,” “Sometimes shot eyes fall from me,” “Listen to the sirens, love” and “Wind of our night” in Propeller Magazine, August 2019.
“Biography,” “Night” and “The Last Angels of the Evening,” Western Humanities Review, 2017.
A Selection of Poems by Selva Casal, Tupelo Quarterly, June 2017.
“Like the Farewells” and “There's no sea anymore” by Selva Casal, Waxwing, Issue 12, 2017.
Marosa di Giorgio (Uruguay)
Excerpts from Carnation and Tenebrae Candle in Latin American Literature Today, May 2019.
Excerpts from The Native Garden is in Flames in Asymptote, 2017.
Excerpts from The War of the Orchards in Ohio Edit, 2017.
Excerpts from Carnation and Tenebrae Candle in Eleven Eleven 21, 2016.
Excerpts from Carnation and Tenebrae Candle in Action Yes, Winter 2016.
Excerpts from Magnolia and The War of the Orchards in The Literary Review, 58.1 (Winter 2015).
Excerpts from The War of the Orchards in Gulf Coast 27.2 (Fall 2015).
Excerpts from The History of Violets in Mandorla 2011.
Excerpts from The History of Violets in Rhino 2009, winner of 2009 Translation Prize.
Excerpts from The History of Violets in Versal 2008.
Silvia Guerra (Uruguay, co-translated with Jesse Lee Kercheval)
Excerpts from “All Beginnings” in Gulf Coast, Winter-Spring 2022.
“II,” “III,” “V” and “VI” in American Poetry Review, Vol. 50 No. 3 (Summer 2021).
“Moss on a Smooth Rock” in The Common Online, May 6, 2021.
“Below, a Lagoon” and “Millais’ Ophelia” in Anomaly 31 (Winter 2021).
“Presumption of Heaven” in The Paris Review, Summer 2020.
“The Alabaster Cup” in Lunch Ticket, finalist for the 2019/2020 Gabo Prize.
Excerpts from “All Beginnings” in Two Lines, Fall 2019.
“That Space Is Mine” in Waxwing, Summer 2018.
Romina Freschi (Argentina)
Excerpts from Echo of the Park in Propeller Magazine, August 2019.
Jesus Maya (Mexico / Canada)
Excerpts from The Dustcloud in Lummox 7, 2018.
Excerpts from The Dustcloud in Seedings Journal 4, 2017.
Úrsula Starke (with Jesse Lee Kercheval)
Three poems from Wisteria in Another Chicago Magazine, Fall 2024.
Three poems from Wisteria in Copper Nickel Magazine, Fall 2023.
Blanca Varela (Peru)
“Material Exercises” in Berfrois Review, October 2018.
