Salgado Maranhão

Salgado Maranhão’s work has twice received Brazil’s most prestigious award, the Prêmio Jabuti. In addition to twenty books of poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil’s leading jazz and pop musicians. He has received two Honoris Causa doctorates in Brazil and recently was inducted  into the Maranhão Academy of Letters. His poems have appeared in translation in numerous magazines such as BOMB, Massachusetts Review, The New York Times, Pleiades, Subtropics, and Words Without Borders.