Jorge Melícias was born in 1970.
Author of the following books of poetry: aqueles que incendeiam os telhados (1994|1996, unpublished); iniciação ao remorso (1998, Editora A Mar Arte, 2005, Cosmorama Edições); a luz nos pulmões (2000, Quasi Edições); o dom circunscrito (2003, Quasi Edições); incŭbus (2004, Quasi Edições); a longa blasfémia (2006, Objecto Cardíaco); disrupção (2009, Cosmorama Edições); felonia|agma (2013, Cosmorama Edições); excídio (Poetic Anthology, 2013, Edições Caiçaras, Santos / Brazil); alvídrio (2013, Cosmorama Edições); hybris (Poesia Reunida, 2015, Cosmorama Edições), a oratória dos mansos (2017, Cosmorama Edições).
Among others he translated into Portuguese Saint-John Perse (Éloges, 2001, Quasi Edições); Leopoldo María Panero (Poemas del Manicomio de Mondrágon, 2001, Editora Alma Azul, Poetic Anthology [1979/1994], 2014, Lumme Editor, São Paulo / Brazil); Antonio Gamoneda (Arden las Perdidas, 2004, Quasi Edições); Lautréamont (Cartes de Isidore Ducasse, 2006, Objecto Cardíaco); Baudelaire (Conseils aux Jeunes Littérateurs, 2006, Objecto Cardíaco); Pedro Marques de Armas (Cabezas, 2007, Cosmorama Edições); Miriam Reyes (Espejo Negro, 2008, Cosmorama Edições, Desalojos, 2015, Cosmorama Edições); Anthology of Contemporary Cuban Poetry (2009, Antígona Editores); José Antonio Ramos Sucre Poetic Anthology, 2017, Relógio d'Água Editores); Hugo Mujica (Bordes - Poetic Anthology -, 2015, Cosmorama Edições); Martín López-Vega (La Eterna Qualquiercosa, 2017, Cosmorama Edições); María Negroni (Arte y Fuga, 2017, Cosmorama Edições); Daniela Camacho (Experiencia Butoh, 2017, Cosmorama Edições).
His poems are translated into Spanish, English, Finnish, Serbo-Croatian, Latvian or Lithuanian and published in various national and foreign anthologies and magazines such as Inimigo Rumor, Confraria do Vento, Zunái or Coyote (in Brazil), Literatūra ir Menas or Naujoji Romuva, from Vilnius, 26, studies of poetry and poetics, or the 2nd Mind, from San Francisco.
A book of essays on his poetry, entitled A Poesia do Excesso – rumo às vísceras de Jorge Melícias, was published in 2011, in Brazil, by TodaPalavra Editora. A collection of three of his books, entitled Disruption, was released in the U.S. by the publisher Durationpress, from Los Angeles.
He is represented in some of the most important national collections, such as the volume published in 2010 by Porto Editora, Poemas Portugueses - Portuguese Poetry Anthology from the 13th to the 21st Century - or the Photomaton Anthology - New Portuguese Lyric, 2012 , Distributed in Uruguay, Argentina and Spain, and whose edition was supported by the Camões Institute and the DGLB.
He is one of the responsible for Cosmorama Edições.