Curtis Part 1

I sit down with Curtis Bauer, an author of two poetry collections and translator of poetry and prose to Spanish. He is the publisher and editor of Q Avenue Press Chapbooks and the Spanish Translations Editor for From the Fishouse, an online audio archive that showcases emerging poets. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Prize, The Glimmer Train Poetry Prize, and the Iowa Review Award for Poetry. His first collection of poems Fence Line won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize in 2003. Now, he teaches Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His most recent work, The Real Cause for your Absence, details Curtis’s experiences and emotions as he navigated from America to Spain, and then back to America. It is a delightfully detailed collection with expert word choice and vivid details.