David Petreman has published his poetry in many U.S. and Canadian literary journals and has also published translations of the work of a number of Chilean poets. In 1991 he won the Writers Exchange Competition sponsored by Poets and Writers for the best poetry manuscript from the state of Ohio and was invited to give a reading at the Poetry Society of America in New York.
David Petreman frequently writes poems about his experiences during seven stays in Chile. His translation of a book of poems by Marino Muñoz Lagos, The Faces of Rain/Los rostros de la lluvia, was published as a bilingual edition in Chile by LOM Ediciones (2001). His La obra narrativa de Francisco Coloane (The Narrative Work of Francisco Coloane), a literary analysis of the legendary Chilean’s work, was published in Chile in 1988 by the Editorial Universitaria. Petreman has published two editions of a translation of Coloane’s short stories, Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World, published by the Latin American Literary Review Press in Pittsburgh (1991 and 2003). He has also written many articles on Latin American literature. He directs an annual Poetry Series at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio. He has traveled extensively throughout the Hispanic world. David Petreman currently teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at Wright State University.
David Petreman’s chapbook Candlelight In Quintero is available through our catalogue. The Spanish version, Luz de Vela en Quintero, (translated by the author) is also available here.
“Resurrecting Neruda” was a talk presented at Wright State University in April, 2005 by David Petreman as part of the university’s celebration of National Poetry Month.
