On 29 May we organised a poetry performance via Zoom as part of FLAWA Festival at Home. Four poets from the main line-up:
Plus, four poets that applied to the open mic:
Yazel Parra Nahemns
Isabelle Bollekens
LAtinX Poetry at Home with FLAWA
Tag: Poetry
Podcast: Poet Xaviera Ringeling (Chile) + author Karlina Veras (Dominican Republic)
Podcast: Literary activist Nathalie Teitler & Poet Leo Boix
Listen: Author Luiza Sauma talking about her novel Everything you ever wanted
Photo: Tim Goalen
Podcast: British-Argentinian poet, theatre maker Michelle Madsen
Poet and theatre maker Michelle Madsen. Listen and discover what we were NOT wearing! While Michelle shares some of her poems and life stories. Listen! & enjoy!
Book review: Faces in the crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli’s first novel published in 2012 (Spanish tittle Los Ingravidos) takes its English title from the poem In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound. The poem is featured in the book and becomes part of the story as the different narrators in the book start to recognise faces in New York’s metro.
Three stories in three different times are delivered in fragmented paragraphs. Each paragraph jumps from one story to the other in a very skilful way.
Story 1: The narrator -a woman who lives in Mexico City with her husband and two children – is writing a book about the time when she lived in New York, before being a wife or a mum.
Story 2: The book the woman is writing becomes part of the narrative and it is about her time in New York working as a literary translator and researcher for a small publishing house, the people she knew and how she became obsessed with the Mexican poet Gilberto Owen who lived in New York between 1928 and 1930.
Story 3: Then we start reading paragraphs were the narrator is the poet Gilberto Owen himself and his time in New York. How he was friend of Federico Garcia Lorca (who lived in New York at that time too).
The three stories are interwoven in such a way that even though each paragraph changes in time, location and narrator you never feel at lost while reading it.
Faces in the crowd is also about the literary scene from the Spanish-speaking diaspora in New York from the time when Gilberto Owen and Garcia Lorca lived there. At least the literary scene imagined by the author Valeria Luiselli as there is no real account of the two poets meeting at the time in New York.
(When I started reading it I couldn’t stop so finished it in one sitting)!
Podcast: Author Oscar Guardiola-Rivera & Poet Angelica Quintero
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is a Colombian writer, poet, lawyer and philosopher. He teaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. and is the author of the books: What if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century and Story of a Death Foretold and the poetry collection Night of the World.
Angélica Quintero is a poet (pen name: Hada Candelaria), creative producer and data semiotician, who wrote the poem I survived (Me salvé) after listening to Rosa Gómez give her testimony to the Colombian Truth Commission in London. Angélica is also the producer of the performance.
Podcast: poet Sonia Quintero and author & translator Lara Alonso Corona
Silvia talks to writer Lara Alonso Corona, plus poet Sonia Quintero shares poems from her first anthology in English, Words Are Not Enough.
Podcast: Theatre director & actor Miguel Hernando Torres & Poet Luis Elvira
In this episode theatre director and actor Miguel Hernando Torres and sound engineer Luis Bonilla talk about the theatre play Stardust.
On the second half of the show the poet Luis Elvira talks about writing, illustrating and being part in writers collectives.
#33 Chile! Author Gonzalo C. Garcia and poet & singer-songwriter Violeta Parra
Sound engineer: Oscar Perez
On the first half of this episode we interviewed the Chilean author Gonzalo C. Garcia about his debut novel, shortlisted for the Edinburgh First Book Award, We are the end.
We Are The End, is a book heavily influenced by Gonzalo C. Garcia’s marked interest in Santiago de Chile, the relationship between video games, digital culture and everyday constructions of narrative.
In the interview, Gonzalo C. Garcia talks about how music triggered his interest in writing, the music scene in Santiago de Chile, the process of writing his first novel, being a lecturer in creative writing; while sharing some tunes from his We-are-the-end-playlist.
Gonzalo C. Garcia currently teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick. We Are the End is his debut novel.
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On the second half of the episode and celebrating the 100 birthday of the poet and singer-songwriter Violeta Parra, we invited the academic, poet and author Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes to talk about the remarkable woman that Violeta Parra was.
Mentioned in this episode:
Indy publisher: Galley Beggar Press
Music band: Miss Garrison
Author: Sherman Alexie
Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist Violeta Parra
Academic, writer, poet and publisher Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes was featured on episode 9!
Songs of Violeta Parra shared in this episode:
Gracias a la vida
Volver a los 17
Literary South 