Sound engineer: Oscar Pérez

Author, poet and singer song-writer Isabel Ros-López talked with Literary South about the influence that the Spanish dictatorship had on her as an artist. She also shares a short story, a poem and sings a song she harvested from Venezuela’s folk.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Spanish and Latin American Poets and Writers – SLAP Collective
• Writers collective: Hispanoamerican Women Writers on Memory
• Pepe Negrete’s bookshop in Malaga
• Charity Centred
• Poet Federico Garcia Lorca
• Poet and playwright Miguel Hernandez Gilabert
• Folk singer song-writer Elisa Serna
• Folk singer song-writer Paco Ibáñez
• Folk singer song-writer Joan Manuel Serrat
• Folk singer song-writer Luis Pastor

Books

• Book This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color

Edited by

Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright Cherry Moraga

and

Queer Chicana poet, writer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa

Forword by

Toni Cade Bambara

The Bridge poem by poet Dona Kate Rushin

Music

Soledad Bravo sings Cantos de Trabajo (Venezuela’s folk)

Victor Jara Te recuerdo Amanda

Daniel Viglietti Dale tu mano al indio

Related content:

Isabel Ros-López singing The Hummingbird

Poem Where are the women? by Isabel Ros-López (read by Sofia Buchuck)

Poem Thinking of you by Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes (Read by Isabel Ros-López)