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Sirena: Poesía, arte y crítica (Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism) was an international and multilingual academic journal founded in 2004 by Dr. Jorge R. Sagastume ( Dickinson College), who edited the journal until 2011. After a feature article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) approached the college to offer the distribution of the journal, and from 2004 until 2012 was published and distributed by the JHUP.
Sirena had published in over twenty languages. Every poem appeared in its original (if not English or Spanish) with facing translations into English and Spanish. The journal had published poets such as Günter Grass, Günter Kunert, Herta Müller, Pearse Hutchinson, Adrian Mitchell, Clara Janés, Homero Aridjis, and many other renowned poets. The journal also included critical essays on poetry, art, and translation studies as well as book reviews.
Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism appeared biannually in March and October, with an average length of an issue being 160 pages.
In 2012 the journal ceased to exist.
Sirena is an academic poetry and art journal founded in 2004.
Sirena ( siren in Spanish) may also refer to:
- Sirena (Philippine mythology), a mermaid of Philippine mythology
- Sirena (telenovela), a Venezuelan telenovela
- Sirena Huang (born 1994), concert violinist
- Sirena Irwin (born 1977), actress
- Paolo Sirena (born 1945), retired Italian professional football player
- Sirena 40, an Italian frigate
- Sirena, in Guam, a mermaid
- Sirena, in the Philippines, a mermaid
- Syrena, a Polish automobile model
- Sirena, a 1998 Teen novel by Donna Jo Napoli about a mermaid who falls in love with Philoctetes during his 10-year stay on the island of Lemnos
- Sirena, one of the three mermaids in Mako Mermaids. Her elder sister is named Aquata.
The Sirena is a Philippine mythological creature, it is called MAgindara in pre-colonial Philippines particularly in Bicol and Visayas Sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later folklore as fully aquatic and mermaid-like; the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Portuguese and Filipino the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă, Sereia and Sirena and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids. However, "the sirens, though they sing to mariners, are not sea-maidens," Harrison had cautioned; "they dwell on an island in a flowery meadow." In the Philippine mythology, the Sirena is a mythological aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. The male version of a Sirena is called a Sireno. Sometimes it is also paired with Siyokoy (see below). The Sirena is an engkanto which is classified as one of the Bantay Tubig or the guardians of water. In addition to the Sirena, other examples of Bantay Tubig are Sireno, Siyokoy, Kataw and Ugkoy. Bantay Tubig are part fish, part human water-dwelling engkantos which are the Filipino counterpart of the English merfolk. A popular mermaid character in the Philippines is Dyesebel.
It is also said that the Sirena has a very beautiful and enchanting voice that can attract and hypnotize males, especially fishermen. A Sirena would sometimes sing to sailors and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or cause shipwrecks. They would sing with enchanting voices while hiding among the rocks by the shore. When the men hear their song they are hypnotized and the Sirena can abduct them. Some old folk traditions claim that the Sirena carry its victims under the sea and offer them to their water deities. Other stories claim that the Sirena squeezes the life out of drowning men while trying to rescue them.
A malevolent Sirena may tease and attract human males with their spellbinding songs; but reports of Sirena grabbing the seemingly hypnotized humans and drowning them or taking them under water may only be isolated cases. Either the tempted human had tried to chase the Sirena deep into the water until he drowned or he had a heart attack upon seeing such an engkanto and plunged literally into the water to his death.
Dugongs, sea turtles, and small cetaceans such as dolphins usually accompany the Sirena.
Sirena (Mermaid) is a Venezuelan telenovela shown in 1993, starring with Astrid Gruber, Carlos Montilla, and Alejandro Delgado. This telenovela contains 199 episodes.
"Sirena" (lit. "Mermaid") is a song by Filipino rapper Gloc-9. It was released as the lead single from the rapper's sixth album, MKNM: Mga Kwento Ng Makata. The song features Ebe Dancel, the former vocalist of now defunct Filipino band Sugarfree. This is the 2nd most viewed OPM song on YouTube (reached 11 million views on July 2013), after Gayuma by Abra, also an LGBT related song. Pop band 1:43, mentions "Sirena" as they mention to Kevin Balot, a transgender Filipina.