José Enrique Delmonte is a Dominican architect, essayist, and poet. He has a PhD in Linguistics and Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. In 2009 he published his first book of poetic prose, Alquimias de la ciudad perdida. Since that time, he has written four more collections: Once palabras que mueven tu mundo (winner of the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the Madrid Book Fair); Habitantes del tedio (2015); and La redondez de lo posible (2017), which won the XV Premio Internacional De Poesía ‘Leon Felipe’ in Tábara, Zamora, Spain. Delmonte has published studies on the Dominican poet Tomás Hernández Franco and the prologue to the author’s book in the Classics Collection of the National Publishing House. He participated as a speaker and poetry reader at the Madrid Book Fair in 2019. In addition to La redondez de lo posible/Roundness of the Possible, a Spanish-English edition of La palabra más larga/The Longest Word will be published in 2024. The Universidad Autónoma de Honduras and the Editorial Effímera have recently published Habitantes del tedio, a selection of his poetry. More collections are forthcoming.

Roundness of the possible
is now available from MadHat Press.