Pedro Poitevin

Bilingual Poet, Translator, and Mathematician

Professor of Mathematics, Salem State University

Pedro Poitevin, a bilingual poet, translator, and mathematician originally from Guatemala, is the author of six books of poetry, including Nowhere at Home (Penteract Press, UK, 2023) and Letras griegas (Praxis, México, 2022). His work has appeared in Rattle, River Styx, The Mathematical Intelligencer, and Nimrod, among others.

In 2022, he received the Juana Goergen Poetry Prize, and in 2025, the Premio Internacional Rever de Poesía Palindrómica. Translations of Miguel Hernández by Poitevin have appeared in Asymptote, and Philip Nikolayev's translations of his Spanish-language poems are forthcoming in The Common.