Presenté a José Emilio Pacheco en Horas de Junio en Hermosillo, México en 2006. SOBRE JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECOEl arte de José Emilio Pacheco --desde los primeros poemas que conocí, cuando de joven poeta hojeaba las librerías de Nueva York, hasta los últimos que leí de Siglo Pasado (Desenlace), ahora mas maduro y amigo del poeta festejado-- se caracteriza por ...
I left Haiti with an album of music in my bags. Called Rankont Dout, the music has now been released worldwide and I am deeply grateful to my fellow musicians, to the dear friends who inspired the poems, to Haiti which gave me to eat and drink and a bed to rest my head. I invite you to listen, to ...
Again on 11 On this--day of mourning and grief, building resolve, once again we have a motive-- extraordinary morning, sky blue, parents off to work, children to school--this time in the African night on the coast, in Benghazi, rocket-fired grenades, machine guns, bombs, consulate on fire, ambassador and staff killed, and all the elaborate defenses built in every American ...
Cada seis horasA verdade que você sinalaneste Dia Intenacionalda Mulher não tem resposta.O fato que morre cadaseis horas uma mulhera mão do seu namoradono Brasil, um paísque celebra tais misturasé mais que alarmantee se eu começoa inquirir nos diversespaíses do mundoincluindo Estados Unidos(onde o número diário e tres, ainda alarmante)e alguns outros ondeassassinar a mulherpor respeitar o honorda família ...
Reginald Paul, R.I.P.We live with the comforts of landmarks, police station, bookstore,hardware emporium, the church of Saint Pierre and the plaza in front,banks, supermarkets, shoe sellers, a neighborhood, Petionville,but everywhere we go thieves ride along with us. They scoutus on the street corners, sitting on scooters as we leave cashmachine, bank, supermarket with our fine French bread. The pastor ...
Joder en américa Al peruano no lo jodas, al chileno tampoco, pero entre ellos se joden con gusto. Al argentino le gusta joder. El venezolano está jodido por células dañadas, el ecuatoriano, gentil hombre, jode solo los sábados por la noche, el panameño al son de la rumba, la plana, la bomba. El colombiano jode por orgullo, con gracia, ...
We did it!Engineers roar, slap each other'sbacks, go gaga as Chandrayaan-3sends Vikram to land onthe Southern Pole of the Moonopening to the intrepid Pragyanthat will go a-roaming whereno robot has gone before. Thisis a huge step for India, yes,and for the rest of us as we see our kind cross boundariesthat exist only in the mind,drawing planetary sustenance from this ...
69 VistasIndran Amirthanayagam es un poeta prolífico, siempre migrando de una a otra casa lingüística. Así, mientras escribo esta reseña sobre su último libro de poesía en inglés, The Migrant States (Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York, 2020), acaba de salir otro libro suyo en francés, Sur l’île nostalgique (L’Harmattan, 2020), cuyo tema principal es la isla de Haití, ...
PartidasLima querida, otra vez con neblina, el dia de la partida, el mar casi a la vista, la inmensa bóveda gris, y en mis manos unas rebanadas de baklava, hecha en casapara el restaurante miraflorina del cual me despido repartiendo su miel, sus nueces, este dulce del ombligo del planeta, parte del Lima donde el amor me da vida ...
Basta “Basta”-- Pope Francisco, November 6, 2023Basta. Enough. Stop killingchildren in Gaza and Israel.Cease fire. Let leaders wiseor mad, it does not matter.We have no time forpsychological evaluations.Let these directorsof the tragedy meetin a foreign capitalto make peace. Do notkill innocents anymore.Stop. Too much. Thisis not complicated,not difficultto understandDo not kill newgenerations, their fathers and mothers. Stanch hatred rising ...
On International Women's DayOn this early Spring day in the Beltway I think of all the women who have woken me up, fed and clothed me, teased and got me out of bed and into walking shoes, who have inspired my writing books, who give me a pacific healing embrace when I start to stiffen, fall into despair; and ...
For Toño Cisneros Who is Cisneros, he asks? I don’t know. A poet wont to drink and a good laugh. He knew Fitzrovia in the 60s, spoke English like a blue blood, and had English skepticism, eye of the toad crouched under a stone watching the giant lizard come tramping through the bog. The stone has been turned over, ...
From Florida, with LoveK.K.M are the initials of the federal judge who just struck down the C.D.C rule requiring face masks on public transport, buses, trains, planes. K.K.M. says the C.D.C exceeded its authority and failed to follow proper procedure in setting the rule, whose target, the pesky Covid 19, is irrelevant in her view. The millon U.S. dead ...
We Are All Chileans TodayThe poet did not pass only from a broken heart, not because he could not eat as his prostate cancer spread, not after he read of Salvador Allende bombed in the Moneda, not walking out alive. The poet died because of clostridium botulinum injected into his stomach while he slept in Santa Maria clinic, Santiago, ...
LECTURAS POR JUÁREZ: LECTURA GLOBAL EN LA CASA DE LA LITERATURA PERUANA La Casa de la Literatura Peruana (Jr. Ancash 207, Centro Histórico de Lima) será sede en Lima de una serie de lecturas a celebrarse simultáneamente durante todo el día en 131 ciudades, en 25 países y 4 continentes, con el propósito de resguardar, a las jóvenes y ...
NO CIERREN LA CASA DE LA LITERATURA Indran Amirthanayagam No cierren la Casa de la Literatura. Que ya es un referente, un ancla, puesta en el paisaje de la oferta cultural en Lima. Llegué a la ciudad al inacer la Casa, hace tres anos. Recientemente participé en las festividades por su cumpleaños. Me ha encantado observar cómo han crecido ...
The RulersWe are teachers today and kids.We are kids today and teachers.We are thirteen years old stabbingour professor in the playgroundat Thomasia Montoro public schoolin São Paulo. We are twenty eightyears old and female with twoautomatic rifles and a handgunkilling three nine-year-oldsand three sixty-somethingsat the Covenant schoolin Nashville. What distinguishesa public from private, statefrom religious school? Nothing.Nothing. Nothing. In ...
On the International Day of the Diplomat, October 24, 2018 Sobre el Dia Internacional del Diplomático, 24 de Octubre, 2018 Encienda una vela el 24 de Octubre para honrar el Día Internacional del Diplomático. Coincide con el Dia de las Naciones Unidas, y un día después del aniversario del natalicio de mi padre que se fue hace 15 años. Era ...
