Hélène Cardona’s Poetry is…
A magic carpet ride, not like anything else around. —Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books
Simultaneously rapturous and lucid. —The London Magazine
Breathless, enraptured, and to borrow a phrase once used by Charles Tomlinson brilliantly to describe the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘self-wearing’. —Caitríona O’Reilly, Poetry Salzburg Review
Extraordinary, magical, and poignant. —Guy Sangster-Adams, The Cultural Pick
Exists in a constant state of becoming. —Kristina Marie Darling, The Iowa Review
A truly joyous act. —Mark Eisner, Poetry Flash
A tender, pensile world that merits repeated line by line explorations. —Anthony DiMatteo, The Los Angeles Review
The chronicle of a traveler. Cardona’s poems often, like James’s sentences, withhold their core image until the final word, when it crystallizes like something flash frozen, caught in motion. —J.C. Hallman, The Brooklyn Rail
Art that can bring into focus a lyrical, whole, beauty-filled cosmos through a spiritual sublime. —Vince Gotera, North American Review
An exploration of spirit rather than body, an everyday wilderness that transcends time, geography, history, and the physical self. —Karli Cude, Typographical Era
Liminal and otherworldly. —David Mason
Visionary. —Richard Wilbur
A terrific and singular achievement. —Stephen Yenser
A love song, a hymn to goodness and beauty. —Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, La Cause Littéraire
Open-hearted. —Dorianne Laux
Surprising, upsetting and, ultimately, uplifting. —Lawrence Kasdan
Centered in joy, rooted firmly in the wild landscape of the imagination. —Brian Turner
A tour de force of language and phonetics. —Joanne Harris
An elegy, a prayer. —Ilya Kaminsky
Embracing and beautiful. —Olympia Dukakis
Exquisite craftsmanship. —Costa-Gavras
Astounding, melodious… dives into uncharted metaphysical and spiritual depths. —The US Review of Books
At once imaginary, wistful, and often rapturous. —Willis Barnstone
Hauntingly evocative in its mysticism, exotic and familiar, covering foreign terrain that will eventually lead us home. —The California Journal of Women Writers
Takes a reader to a farther shore. —John Domini, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review
Full of wonder. —James Lawless
Shamanic poetry, poetry as magic, poetry as a gateway to the unconscious and to the dream world, liminal poetry, poetry as alchemy, poetry as healing. —The Passionate Transitory
A graceful skate across a liquid language, a voyage across subliminal waves. —Thomas McCarthy
Unparalleled grace. —Alessandra Bava, Poetry Rules
The language of transcendence, of magic. Anyone who has grieved the loss of childhood experience, of treasured places far away, or of a loved one close to home can appreciate the sensitivity with which the poet conveys her longing to recapture these losses in art. —Erna Cooper, World Literature Today
An Orphic incantation. Whitmanic and cosmic. —Paul Wilner, ZYZZYVA
A vision transcending the scope of normal human destiny, a glimpse of the essential nature of the cosmos. —Rustin Larson, The Iowa Source
Soul-searching and enchanting with its mysticism and elegance. —Readers’ Favorite
Mysterious but also so familiar, especially to anyone who has crossed borders. —Mia Funk, The Creative Process
Spiritual awakening, a sacred journey. —Marc Vincenz, The Lit Pub
Liminal. Cardona’s shared journey is so immense, so inclusive, that her simple statement, it’s a wild place we inhabit, steps off into infinitude. —Richard Jarrette, Santa Barbara’s Voice Magazine
A song for the acceptance of doubleness, pluralism. —Antonio D’Alfonso, The Pacific Rim Review of Books
Whimsical and symbolic. —Amanda Ferris, The Absolute
Poignant, a lyrical search for transcendence and for the metaphysical truths that underlie the natural world and human experience. —Hugh Hazelton
An appreciation of the powerful and mercurial magic of nature in all its guises. —Wolf Print
Lush, lyrically gorgeous. —Robert Vaughan
So luminous and fanciful that you can stumble around for hours within it, lose track of time almost, and fall out the other end feeling lighter and like you just traveled to another time and place. —Elizabeth Cohen, At the Inkwell
Imaginal and mythic. —Jamie Dedes, The Poet by Day
Linguistic spiritual transcendence that is illuminated on every page. —Alison Williams, Poetry International
Breathless. —Jack Foley, Caveat Lector
Fervent, feverish, musical. —Candace Pearson, Spillway 26
Teaming with magic and vivid animal imagery. —Juanita Couslon, The Lady
Traces of melancholy, flashes of resilience and above all, an abundance of wonder – at things both quotidian and cosmic, past and present – shine through Life in Suspension. —Tulika Bahadur, On Art and Aesthetics
Des poèmes comme des incantations séductrices pour fusionner entre réel et irréel. —Ghislaine Léjard, Le Capital des Mots
Une poésie spirituelle et sensuelle en même temps, où rien n’est rejeté, tout est instantanément senti, compris, transformé, transfiguré. —Dana Shishmanian, Francopolis
In the News
Hélène, Jury for the 25th Polish Film Festival Los Angeles
Interview in Bold Journey Magazine
Hélène wins Best Actress, 2024 Vegas Movie Awards (Detective Jones, The Dead Woman)
Interview in Voyage LA Magazine
My poem “At My Funeral” in The Slowdown
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 21 April 2024, 3:20pm
The Abduction wins the 2024 Independent Press Award
The Abduction is a World Literature Today’s Notable Translation
Recommended Review of The Abduction in The US Review of Books
Interview in ShoutOut LA Magazine
My new movie Caralique releases on all TVOD November 21st
Beautiful review and interview of my movie Caralique
Superb review of Life in Suspension in The Antonym
Glorious review of The Abduction by Ron Starbuck, Saint Julian Press Book Reviews
Hélène wins the 2023 Monarch of Motion Pictures: Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture
Hélène wins the 2023 Best Actress Award at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (for Caralique)
Scénema interviews Hélène for Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Hélène wins the Vanguard Award for Cinematic Achievement by an Actress at the Scotland International Festival of Cinema
Hélène participate in PEN’s Women in Translation
Hélène chats with Stephen Savage on the Stephen Savage Show
Hélène wins Best Supporting Actress at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris and Best Supporting Actress at the Lady Filmmakers Festival
Hélène recurs as Monique in Season 2 of Upload
Hélène talks with Scénema at the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Birnam Wood wins the 2022 NYC Big Book Award the Independent Press Award
Winner Best Actress: 2022 V.I.Z. Film Festival, Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival,Dubai Independent Film Festival; Winner Best Supporting Actress: 2022 Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, 2022 Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris; 2022 Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards, Virgin Spring Fest, 2022 Indo French International Film Festival, Druk International Film Festival; Best Supporting Actress Finalist: Swedish International Film Festival, Accord Cine Fest; Golden Actress Nominee: Golden Short Film Festival; Semi-Finalist: San Francisco Indie Short Festival
Hélène is a Judge for the National Translation Award in Poetry
My translation “He has begun to speak to me” from The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri in AGNI
Hélène is a Judge for the Voice Arts Awards
Miami Book Fair: Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
Honored to nominate John FitzGerald’s The Mind for World Literature Today‘s “21 Books for the 21st Century”
From the Heart with Grace / Du cœur avec grâce in SalmonPoetry40
2020 iWoman Global Awards Winner
Life in Suspension wins the 2020 Independent Press Award
Tabula Poetica’s 10 year Anniversary in LA Times
Birnam Wood wins the 2019 Best Book Award and Readers’ Favorite Award Gold Medal in Poetry
Birnam Wood is Bonnie Hearn Hill’s Great Day Book Club’s Book of the Month
Hélène is awarded the 2019 Naji Naaman Literary Prize
Wiki’s 13 Picks of Talented Contemporary Poets
Birnam Wood reviewed in Bookaccino and North of Oxford
Birnam Wood reviewed in World Literature Today and The Los Angeles Review
Birnam Wood wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book & is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Birnam Wood reviewed in Readers’ Favorite and two poems in Terrain.org
Birnam Wood reviewed in Poetry International
Birnam Wood is a World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018
Birnam Wood is awarded Best Translation in the Washington Independent Review of Books
Birnam Wood is reviewed in The Iowa Source
Life in Suspension is reviewed At the Inkwell
Life in Suspension is a 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
AWP Writers Conference & Book Fair, Tampa, Panel: The Glories of Impossible Translations
Feb 24, Nasty Women Poets! A Book Reading & Signing, Beyond Baroque
Feb 4, Santa Barbara Poetry Series: Hélène Cardona and Bettina Barrett
Life in Suspension reviewed in Poetry International
Life in Suspension wins the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry
The Lit Fantastic: Hélène Cardona (Translation & Renaissance Women)
Books to Watch Out for Oct 2017
Hélène Cardona in the Spotlight
Poets Live at the Tennessee Bar, Paris
Invitación a un Encuentro Especial con la Actriz y Poeta Hélène Cardona
Lo más importante para mí es el gran corazón de la gente que conocí en este Festival
Primer Festival de Poesía Itinerante Nuestra América, Havana, Cuba
Compases inaugurales de un Festival Itinerante
Life in Suspension is Book of the Month on Great Day
Hélène Cardona at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in French Culture
Reading the World Conversation Series: Authors, Translators, Ideas
Une rencontre avec l’auteure Hélène Cardona in French Morning
Books & Ideas – Hélène Cardona in French Culture
Hélène’s Aphorisms
To live is to persist in pain
Life works out better later/like a cactus eventually blooms
We have the same ear for reading/the bones in the wind/and breaking down the sun.
Art is perpetual rebirth/…the way we receive counsel from God.
I dream for a living
Every wall is a beginning.
I want/to die remarkably
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For me, poetry is a process of self-revelation, an exploration of hidden dimensions in myself, and at the same time a way to become myself, a process of individuation I try to create throughout my life – a profound experience of the fundamental interconnection of all in the universe. Writing is cathartic as it extends a search for peace, for serenity, rooted in a desire to transcend and reconcile the fundamental duality I see in life. Ultimately, I seek expansion of consciousness.
Interviews
Interview in ShoutOut LA Magazine
Scénema interviews Hélène for Caralique at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Hélène chats with Stephen Savage on the Stephen Savage Show
Interview in Scénema for Halo at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris
Ethelbert Miller’s podcast of my interview ON THE MARGIN WPFW 89.3 FM (06/20/18 – 9 am)
Interview by Mia Funk in The Creative Process
Interview for AWP’s In the Spotlight
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona in World Literature Today
The Lit Fantastic: Hélène Cardona (Translation & Renaissance Women)
Entrevista a la poeta y actriz Hélène Cardona, Havana, Cuba
Everybody’s Reviewing with Jonathan Taylor
Celebrating American She-Poets: Hélène Cardona with Jamie Dedes in The Poet by Day
The Nervous Breakdown Self-Interview
It’s a Question of Balance with Ruth Copland
Author 2 Author with Bill Kenower
Ren Women with Dale Griffith Stamos
The Enchanting Literary Verses with Koketso Marishane
Life Changes Radio Show with Filippo Voltaggio
Out of Our Minds with J.P. Dancing Bear
The Toronto Quarterly Literary Arts and Journal with Darryl Salach
What’s Left: Ruth Copland interviews actress, poet and linguist Hélène Cardona on KSCO AM 1080
Author Magazine with Bill Kenower
Quill Magazine July-Sept 2013, Eric Forbes’s Book Addict Guide to Good Books: Inspired by Dreams
KRUU Irving Toast Poetry Ghost with Rustin Larson
The Next Big Thing on LitBridge
The Passionate Transitory‘s Seventeenth Quinterview
Working the Words: Voices on Language
Poetic Asides by Robert Lee Brewer
You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifice. —Low Altitude
Links
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I use my determination, positivity, and generosity to help the world become more animal friendly.
Art is perpetual rebirth, the way
we choose to express ourselves,
the way we receive counsel from God. —Neptunian Cavern
Across the web I’ve woven I cut loose the end of sorrow. I’m here to stay. —Cornucopia
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