Class of: 1981

Tino Villanueva

Tino Villanueva (GRS’81) of Brookline, Mass., published So Spoke Penelope (Grolier Poetry Press, 2013), which has since been translated into French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. On October 9, 2021, Tino’s poem, “You, If No One Else,” was selected as the Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day. Tino was a faculty member of BU’s Department of Romance Studies until his retirement in 2015.

From the Winter-Spring 2023 issue.