Guillermo Parra
@venepoetics.bsky.social
🇻🇪 🇺🇸 Poet & translator. Clearwater, FL
I wonder who made this trail in Flatwoods Forest in Thonotosassa?
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
I wonder who made this trail in Flatwoods Forest in Thonotosassa?
Correction: 1929
February 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Correction: 1929
Selfie w/ a book my great grandfather published in 1931,T.R. Ybarra’s biography Bolívar: The Passionate Warrior (New York: Ives Washburn Publisher), a talisman in my library. Ives Washburn published 2 other books by Ybarra.
February 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Selfie w/ a book my great grandfather published in 1931,T.R. Ybarra’s biography Bolívar: The Passionate Warrior (New York: Ives Washburn Publisher), a talisman in my library. Ives Washburn published 2 other books by Ybarra.
Afterglow clouds like a Steal Your Face lightning bolt tonight.
January 30, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Afterglow clouds like a Steal Your Face lightning bolt tonight.
In 2016 Noemi Press published my English translation of the Venezuelan poet José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890-1930). I’m grateful the book is still in print.
www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
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Selected Works: Expanded Edition by José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Trans. Guillermo Parra) | Noemi Press
www.noemipress.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM
In 2016 Noemi Press published my English translation of the Venezuelan poet José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890-1930). I’m grateful the book is still in print.
www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
A bridge from 1931 in Old Southeast St Pete yesterday
January 18, 2026 at 10:48 PM
A bridge from 1931 in Old Southeast St Pete yesterday
Looking across the Bay at Tampa from St. Pete
January 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Looking across the Bay at Tampa from St. Pete
Gabriel Payares writes a list of 9 recommended books by contemporary Venezuelan writers in English translation. He includes my English translation of Eleonora Requena’s collection of poetry, Textos por fuera / Outside Texts (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). 🇻🇪
9 Venezuelan Books That Imagine Home from Abroad - Electric Literature
These diaspora authors capture the intimate history and complex reality of Venezuela
electricliterature.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Gabriel Payares writes a list of 9 recommended books by contemporary Venezuelan writers in English translation. He includes my English translation of Eleonora Requena’s collection of poetry, Textos por fuera / Outside Texts (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). 🇻🇪
Rest in peace, Bob Weir.
January 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Rest in peace, Bob Weir.
Poem draft fragment of “Grateful Dead,” the third one I’ve written w/ that title, about my years seeing them play between 1988-1994.
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Poem draft fragment of “Grateful Dead,” the third one I’ve written w/ that title, about my years seeing them play between 1988-1994.
Intracoastal Gulf vibrations
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Intracoastal Gulf vibrations
The Smiths (poem draft, 12/15/25)
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Smiths (poem draft, 12/15/25)
After reading the first chapter of Paul Auster’s Moon Palace, I’m already in love with this book.
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
After reading the first chapter of Paul Auster’s Moon Palace, I’m already in love with this book.
Hello 55 and a full moon tonight.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hello 55 and a full moon tonight.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
I finished reading Laura van den Berg’s novel State of Paradise (2024). I especially enjoyed its focus on the I-4 corridor of Florida as part of the novel’s landscape.
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I finished reading Laura van den Berg’s novel State of Paradise (2024). I especially enjoyed its focus on the I-4 corridor of Florida as part of the novel’s landscape.
Saturday night afterglow on the Gulf of Mexico.
July 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Saturday night afterglow on the Gulf of Mexico.
Reposted by Guillermo Parra
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Last night on Stevenson Creek.
June 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Last night on Stevenson Creek.
Now I’m at chapter 61 of Moby-Dick. I took a 🚲 ride to Old Clearwater Bay tonight. Melville makes you notice the sea more closely.
May 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Now I’m at chapter 61 of Moby-Dick. I took a 🚲 ride to Old Clearwater Bay tonight. Melville makes you notice the sea more closely.
My rereading of Moby Dick continues. What a vastly entertaining & philosophically profound novel it is, Melville is like a high art soap opera writer, each chapter pulling you into the next.
May 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
My rereading of Moby Dick continues. What a vastly entertaining & philosophically profound novel it is, Melville is like a high art soap opera writer, each chapter pulling you into the next.
Gulf of Mexico moonrise on Indian Rocks Beach tonight.
April 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Gulf of Mexico moonrise on Indian Rocks Beach tonight.
Cambridge Common (poem draft, 4/17/25)
April 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Cambridge Common (poem draft, 4/17/25)
Philip Lamantia (1967/2025)
April 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Philip Lamantia (1967/2025)
Good to see you tweeting out here in the astral plane!
March 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Good to see you tweeting out here in the astral plane!
In the rail yards on tonight’s ride 🚲
March 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In the rail yards on tonight’s ride 🚲