Location: United States
Member Since:
July 27, 2015
Allyson Lima
Biography
Allyson Lima earned an MA in Spanish Literature from the University of Oregon in Eugene. Before moving to the east coast in 2008, she taught Spanish Language, Literature and Culture classes at Oregon State University. She has also taught the course, Latin America: History, Art, Literature at American University in Washington D.C. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.
A Paul Peck Humanities scholar, Allyson participated in the 2013 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship, a year-long collaboration between Montgomery College and the Smithsonian Museums in Washington D.C. Her teaching is enhanced by object-based learning and the exploration of cultural identities through the discovery and exploration of museum objects and artifacts.
Allyson’s childhood on the Northern California coast is central to her poetry. Humboldt County bays and beaches, redwood forests, mountains, rivers and valleys appear throughout her poetry, linked indelibly to her creative process. For Allyson, close observation of the natural world evokes intuitive connections that when compressed into language, make poems. She explores the power of visual objects in nature, art, and literature, which when read in relationship, generate new meanings. For her, poetry creates a new space where self and other merge and connect with dimensions beyond the self, both human and other.
Currently, she is collaborating with noted author and artist Mario Bencastro on a book of poems in Spanish and translates his poems into English. In July 2015, she will present a paper on Bencastro’s fiction at an international conference on Latin American Literature in El Salvador.
In response to a colleague’s chance request for poems, her first submitted poem was published in thesongis.blogspot.com and has resulted in requests for other submissions. She is delighted to join the literary adventures of fellow poets and readers.
A Paul Peck Humanities scholar, Allyson participated in the 2013 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship, a year-long collaboration between Montgomery College and the Smithsonian Museums in Washington D.C. Her teaching is enhanced by object-based learning and the exploration of cultural identities through the discovery and exploration of museum objects and artifacts.
Allyson’s childhood on the Northern California coast is central to her poetry. Humboldt County bays and beaches, redwood forests, mountains, rivers and valleys appear throughout her poetry, linked indelibly to her creative process. For Allyson, close observation of the natural world evokes intuitive connections that when compressed into language, make poems. She explores the power of visual objects in nature, art, and literature, which when read in relationship, generate new meanings. For her, poetry creates a new space where self and other merge and connect with dimensions beyond the self, both human and other.
Currently, she is collaborating with noted author and artist Mario Bencastro on a book of poems in Spanish and translates his poems into English. In July 2015, she will present a paper on Bencastro’s fiction at an international conference on Latin American Literature in El Salvador.
In response to a colleague’s chance request for poems, her first submitted poem was published in thesongis.blogspot.com and has resulted in requests for other submissions. She is delighted to join the literary adventures of fellow poets and readers.