Gloria Gervitz

Gloria Gervitz (29 March 1943 – 19 April 2022) was a Mexican poet and translator of Ukrainian Jewish descent.

She has translated works by Kenneth Rexroth, Susan Howe, Lorine Niedecker, Rita Dove, and Samuel Beckett into Spanish.

[1][3] Between August and September 1976,[2] when she was 33 years old, she began writing an organic poem, Migraciones,[4] which was first published in 1979 and is still in process.

[1] The poem, to date, consists of seven parts and more than 120 written pages;[6] although most of the text is in Spanish, Migraciones contains phrases and words in Yiddish.

[8][9] In 2022, she received a posthumous PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award for Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020 (NYRB Poets, 2021).