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  To Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and pump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.

To Autumn : John Keats

Poetry Month Special

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Translation : Gregory Rabassa

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway

Sth, I know that woman. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. Know her husband, too. He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. When the woman, her name is Violet, went to the funeral to see the girl and to cut her dead face they threw her to the floor and out of the church. Jazz : Toni Morisson

On an evening in the later part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blackmore  or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He Occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. Tess of the d'Urbervilles : Thomas Hardy

1801- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord- the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly, a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven-and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. Wuthering Heights : Emily Bronté

 

Sydney Writers’ Festival 2017: May 22-28

 

|| April 09: 2017: University of Sydney News || ά. The Sydney Writers' Festival 2017 is taking place on May 22-28 at the festival's home in Walsh Bay, where University of Sydney students will have their works cut out, seeking to interview authors and review events. Walsh Bay was the setting for one of the most anticipated announcements of the Sydney cultural year: Sydney Writers’ Festival 2017 Programme Launch. Big name international and local authors will alight the festival stages this May alongside a whole host of our University of Sydney academic and alumni community in a programme of events, that will delight readers and writers alike.

Sydney Writers’ Festival Artistic Director Michaela McGuire unveiled the timely theme for the 2017 festival as ‘Refuge’ and has said, “There is already a long list of forces that people are seeking refuge from, the worsening effects of climate change, civil unrest and Orwellian politics and, more than ever, readers will be turning to literature to find solace”. Over 40 University of Sydney staff and alumni join the stellar line-up of guests to speak at the festival this year with highlights including a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences panel, that considers our path to survival in Food and water as the fundamentals for living.

The cast features Professor Elspeth Probyn, Dr Beth Yahp, Dr Chin Jou and Dr Astrida Neimanis speaking to Associate Professor Tess Lea, as well as award-winning poet Ali Cobby Eckermann in conversation with Dr Peter Minter, Associate Professor Nicholas Rowley speaking to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and environmentalist Tim Flanneryand NPR’s Shanghai correspondent Rob Schmidt in conversation with new Director of the China Studies Centre Professor Luigi Tomba, to name a few.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Annamarie Jagose, said of the launch, “The 2017 Sydney Writers' Festival program showcases an impressive mix of some of the world's great writers and thinkers that is well matched by the breadth of expertise on show from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences”.

Each year the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences co-sponsor a dynamic international author to attend the festival. Previous writers include chief literary critic for The New Yorker James Wood, acclaimed American novelist Jonathan Lethem, and British philosopher Julian Baggini. 2017 will see us host Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Susan Faludi, who will be speaking at a special on-campus Sydney Ideas event Susan Faludi in Conversation on Thursday 25th May.

The Faculty are the sponsors of the free Curiosity Lecture Series, which will take place down at the Walsh Bay precinct and include short lectures by authors and academics, including Olivia Murphy: On the Problem with Jane Austen to celebrate 200 years of the beloved author’s death, Chris Rodley: On How to Build a Novel-Writing Machine and historian Mark McKenna: On Music and Writing. The stage will also be hosted by University of Sydney academics.

“Across the 2017 Festival, some of the world’s most curious and compassionate, irreverent but respectful, intelligent and argumentative writers will be offering up their brilliant works as temporary respites, while also interrogating the forces that compel us to come together and find sanctuary.” said Michaela McGuire. “We hope you’ll find refuge in Sydney Writers’ Festival 2017."

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The Gabriel Okara Prize for Literature 2017: Open for Submissions: Deadline: March 13: The Gabriel Okara Literature Festival 2017: April 25-28

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|| March 03: 2017: University of Port Harcourt Nigeria News || ά. The Institute of Arts and Culture of the University of Port Harcourt, in collaboration with the Celi and Joe Ajienka Professorial Chair for Arts and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, the American Corner and Institute of Niger Delta Studies is organising the Gabriel Okara Annual Literary Festival 2017 in honour of Dr. Gabriel Okara, the first renowned English-Language black African poet, on April 25-28.

As part of the celebration of the Festival, the Gabriel Okara Prize for Literary is being launched. The Prizes will be awarded to an alternate genre of literature each year: Poetry 2017, Prose 2018  and Drama 2019. The Award is of N200,000, which will be offered in three prizes as 1st Prize: N 100,000; 2nd Prize: N 50,000 and 3rd Prize:  N 25,000. For this year’s Festival, the Institute of Arts and Culture of the University of Port Harcourt will administer two literary prizes: one:  Gabriel Okara Prize for Poetry for published poets, submission as published book:one and two: Nigerian Young Poets’ Award for poets under thirty, submission with unpublished poem:five. The most important thing to register: the deadline: 13 March. Therefore, hurry all poets....

The Guidelines for Submissions for the Gabriel Okara Prize for Poetry

The prize will be awarded for a collection of poems, published a year prior to the award.
The collection must be at least 50 pages long and must be in English.
The competition is open to all Nigerian poets of all ages at home or abroad.
Only a single title is acceptable for each entrant:poet in the competition.
Entries can be submitted by either authors or publishers.
Six hard copies are to be submitted, with a cover letter, specifying which prize you are competing for, your postal:residential and email addresses, phone number and in an envelope clearly marked 'Gabriel Okara Prize 2017', to the Institute of Arts and Culture, University of Port Harcourt, East-West Road, Choba, Port Harcourt.
 

The Guidelines for Submissions for the Gabriel Okara Nigerian Young Poets’ Award

 The prize is for an unpublished manuscript of five poems only, written in English.
The prize is open for every Nigerian poet not above the age of 30.
Entries must be original work, not published previously in print or online.
Poems must not exceed 30 lines, excluding title but can be on any subject matter.
Under no circumstances will poems be changed or corrected once submitted.
Entries should be single-spaced, between lines and double-spaced, between stanzas.
Entries must be in Times New Roman font 12.
Every submission must include an index cover page that contains the name, nationality, country of birth, residential address, email address and telephone number of the poet.
Every submission must include a signed 'Letter of Authority' avowing that the poems are original and authorising the Institute to publish the poems on its print and online platforms for the purposes of promotion.
Entries are to be emailed as a single word document attachment, not PDF to gabrielokara.iac uniport.edu.ng.
Prizes will be given to the first, second and third best poets in the competition.

General Rules

The closing date for entries into both competitions is 13 March.
The decision of the judges is final.
The organisers reserve the right to withhold the award on the counsel of the jury.
Finalists will be notified on time and encouraged to attend the Award Night ceremony.
Winners will be announced at the Award Night ceremony.
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William Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu Festival 2016 Competition for Budding Playwrights: Deadline July 15

This year marks the 400th anniversay of Chinese dramatist Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare:
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The Candle Won't Blow Out Celebration of William Shakespeare 2016

 

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400 years since the passing of William Shakespeare this year, yet he seems as young by as many years...................

 

|| June 30: 2016 || ά. The University of Sheffield is set to strengthen its global partnerships with the launch of a major national competition aimed at budding playwrights, as part of celebrations for the 400th anniversaries of Shakespeare and the great Chinese dramatist, Tang Xianzu. The Confucius Institute at the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the London Confucius Institute at SOAS, will be hosting the competition as part of the 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu Festival, which is scheduled to take place at the end of November 2016 in London.

The competition, which marks the University of Sheffield's ongoing commitment to global humanities, will offer the winners the chance to see their creative skills taken from script to stage by receiving funding to perform in one of the three cities in China: Beijing, Shanghai or Nanjing.

Entrants are invited to submit a 1,000 word proposal either for a new China themed or Chinese play performed in English, or any existing play performed in Chinese - both around 30-45 minutes long. As part of the proposal, entrants are requested to share their ideas on their creative approach to the drama, including staging style, design and costumes in about 300 words.

Deadlines for entries will be July 15, 2016 and the successful winners at the pre selection phase will be able to claim up to £500 for the production of the play after the competition, as well as additional transport costs.

The University has a long history of playwrights amongst its diverse alumnus, including Lucy Prebble, Jack Rosenthal and Stephen Daldry. Lucy, who won the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award while studying at the University, has since authored a host of plays including The Sugar Syndrome, as well as the television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

Contemporary dramatist Jack Rosenthal, who graduated from the University in 1953 with a degree in English Language and Literature, wrote nearly 130 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. In recognition of his talent, the University holds a collection of manuscript copies of most of the scripts created during his 40 year career.

Stephen Daldry, English Director and producer of film and theatre, who graduated with a BA in English Literature in 1984, made his feature film directorial debut in 2000 with Billy Elliot and has gone on to win several awards for his work, which has involved an array of Hollywood stars.

Stephen was chairman of Sheffield University Theatre Company (SuTCo) during his time studying and joins hundreds of current and former students who have rehearsed at the University’s first class Drama Studio, which features a 200 seat theatre, three rehearsal studios and other production facilities. The Drama Studio has been at the centre of the performing arts community for both the University and the local area for more than 40 years, with the most varied and busy programme of drama, dance, opera and music in the city.

Submissions for the competition will be reviewed by an eminent panel of judges which is expected to include a playwright and stage director from Shanghai, among others.

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. But in 1616, 5,000 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, the great Ming Dynasty playwright Tang Xianzu also died. The 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu Festival is just one of a host of celebrations being held to honour Shakespeare and his Chinese contemporary Tang Xianzu - the greatest playwrights of their respective theatres.

The Festival itself will be broken down into two parts: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu in dialogue: a series of conversations and the theatre competition. For the first project, the aim will be to hold a public fora at a series of universities between leading specialists on Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare, as well as public talks about the experience of a Chinese playwright.

Dr Lucy Zhao, Director of the University of Sheffield's Confucius Institute, said: “Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu are playwrights of the same era. The two literary giants encapsulate their respective society and culture in their plays. We look forward to watching how today's students interpret and reproduce Renaissance England the Ming Dynasty China. It is going to be fascinating to see how the two cultures differ, but more importantly to see how the Chinese and British people share the same emotions and aspirations in life more than 400 years ago and 5000 miles apart.”

The competition forms part of the university's ongoing links with China and Chinese culture, through research partnerships and cultural studies. Earlier this year, the University of Sheffield’s Confucius Institute for the promotion of Chinese language and learning was recognised for this commitment and named global Confucius Institute of the Year.

The University of Sheffield was one of the first universities in the UK to host a Confucius Institute, which offers a programme of activities and classes designed to give staff, students and the local community a fascinating insight into Chinese language and culture, as well as offer language courses for businesses that are members of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. It has also helped organise Chinese business seminars as part of the MADE festival and played a key role with Sheffield City Council and the Doncaster Chamber of Commerce on trade delegations.

The University of Sheffield has been a home for students from China for over 100 years, with the first graduation of a Chinese student from the University in 1906. It is now home to Chinese undergraduate and postgraduate students in all faculties from engineering and medicine to architecture and law.

Professor Sir Keith Burnett, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield and the recipient of an award from the Chinese government for his personal contribution to the understanding of Chinese language and culture, said: “I am genuinely delighted to see the launch of this competition which will create a tremendous opportunity for new writing and reflection on the relationship between the UK and China, inspired by the insights of our greatest thinkers and writers who have done so much to shape our view of ourselves and the world. The University of Sheffield is deeply proud of our work as a global community of scholarship which builds bridges of understanding between people and nations in everything from science and engineering to medicine and the arts.

“Giving this opportunity for new writers to reflect on our identity and society is a wonderful way to engage with one another, and to do what literature and drama does best – to show us ourselves and ask us to reflect on what this means for our society. I am really looking forward to seeing the talent I know will emerge through this process.”

Additional information: For details on how to enter and more information on competition guidelines, visit.

University of Sheffield links with China

The University also works in partnership with a number of leading Chinese universities, including Nanjing University, Beijing Language and Culture University and Tongji University. The University of Sheffield is working closely with the UK Government's Department for Trade and Industry to pilot placements for Chinese students in local SMEs, helping those companies gain invaluable experience in working with China. The scheme was launched in Sheffield in November by the Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Lord Livingston. The University is also working closely with Chinese companies on advanced manufacturing related to low carbon energy, including in relation to the UK government's partnership with China to develop the next phase of civil nuclear energy production in the UK.

Films produced by The University of Sheffield to help Chinese students understand more about how to apply to study in the UK are now launched in parliament with the support of the UK Government and the Chinese embassy in London. The films are now used by more than 100 universities working with potential students and form part of the University's #weareinternational campaign with its Students' Union to highlight the value of international students to the UK. The campaign was recently named winner of the Times Higher Education International Student Strategy of the Year.

About the Confucius Institute

Confucius Institutes are non-profit public institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China to promote and teach Chinese language and culture around the world. The first institute was opened in Seoul, South Korea, in 2004 and there are now over 480 Confucius Institutes in dozens of countries on six continents.

The University of Sheffield

With almost 27,000 of the brightest students from over 140 countries, learning alongside over 1,200 of the best academics from across the globe, the University of Sheffield is one of the world’s leading universities. A member of the UK’s prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, Sheffield offers world-class teaching and research excellence across a wide range of disciplines. Unified by the power of discovery and understanding, staff and students at the university are committed to finding new ways to transform the world we live in.

Sheffield is the only university to feature in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2016 and was voted number one university in the UK for Student Satisfaction by Times Higher Education in 2014. In the last decade it has won four Queen’s Anniversary Prizes in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the United Kingdom’s intellectual, economic, cultural and social life. Sheffield has five Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields.
Global research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Glaxo SmithKline, Siemens and Airbus, as well as many UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.

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The Humanion Profile Jemma Wayne: Author of Chains of Sand Who Speaks of the Black and White and of the Grey: Being a Thinker She Seeks to Gather the Fragmented Shades, Shreds and Debris of the Truth That Pays So Much for Everyone Seems to Break It to Fit into Their Viewscape


|| June 23: 2016 || ά. Jemma Wayne graduated from Cambridge University with an academic scholarship in Social and Political Sciences, before studying Broadcast Journalism at the University of Westminster and becoming a journalist and writer. Her first book, After Before was nominated for both the Baileys Prize and the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and her second novel Chains of Sand is published this summer as one of the first fictional addresses of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ω.

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Hay on Wye Festival 2016: May 26- June 05

Hay on Wye Festival 2016: May 26- June 05

Meg Rosoff Accepts Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Before Full Stockholm Concert Hall

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|| May 30: 2016 || ά. Meg Rosoff tonight received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy Mrs. Alice Bah Kuhnke. In her acceptance speech she expressed both praise and criticism.

Rosoff spoke joyfully but also gravely. She expressed pleasure and pride at being recognised for her work as an author. She also described a sense of sorrow for today's world of child refugees, leaders who know too little about the importance of art, music, and literature for young people, and societies that value lawyers and bankers more than teachers and librarians.

Meg Rosoff emphasized the importance of the imagination, quoting Astrid Lindgren: "Everything great that happened in this world happened first in someone's imagination."

– It is a great honour and a great responsibility to carry on the work that Astrid Lindgren began. I am not only grateful for the recognition this prize brings, but for a country that puts such tremendous value on children's books and children's imaginations.

In her congratulatory speech, Minister Bah Kuhnke mentioned difficulties facing young people today: Teenage-years are a bit like no man´s land. No one is invited to come close and there are no clear sign posts for direction. It is comfortable for the rest of us to keep it on a certain distance. And it can be awfully difficult to dig into our teenagers' emotions since it forces us to reflect on our own lives. Someone who doesn´t fear this is this year's laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award; Meg Rosoff. Readmore

Meg Rosoff’s Speech at the Award Ceremony

Acceptance speech by author Meg Rosoff at the Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on May 30, 2016.

I am so honoured to be the recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial award for 2016. I keep waiting for it to sink in, to become normal, and it keeps leaping up to astonish me again.

I have been thinking about children a great deal this year, about the ones who live in tents in Calais, who have traveled alone from Syria, and the ones who have died trying. About children whose lives are traumatised and ruined by what grown-ups decide is worth fighting over.

Closer to home, I’ve been thinking about children in the UK who never play outdoors, who hardly play at all, who believe what their parents and government tell them – that nothing is more important than exams, that they must cram as much information into their brains as possible, that they must be literate and read books – yet that it is OK to close libraries and do away with librarians. The government says that children must not daydream or waste time or look out the window. The government says that art and music and books will not help children to be successful – in other words, to make lots of money.

I meet these children all the time. Sometimes they get great scores on their exams. And sometimes they cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, suffer depression and anxiety.

Teachers are not allowed to waste time either. They have boxes to tick and forms to fill out. Perhaps that is why teachers in the UK are resigning in record numbers and becoming so much more difficult to recruit – to what has become a joyless profession. Learning has become joyless as well, but students are not able to quit. Instead, they carry on, trained throughout childhood not to daydream, not to use their imaginations, not to play.

In Britain we are experiencing, quite literally, an assault on childhood. Astrid Lindgren once said, “Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in someone’s imagination.”

Someone in Sweden imagined that you could accept 6,000 refugee children into your schools, and that society would somehow survive. That you could encourage writers for children, (and even, for a week, treat them like rock stars!) Someone thought that librarians and teachers might be as important as bankers and lawyers. Maybe it was because someone had the idea that without encouraging children’s imaginations, there would be no hope for humanity.

Astrid Lindgren reminds us that it is children who will take over the running of the world – so there is nothing more important than how we teach them, what values they learn, what books they read – what sort of future they are able to imagine.

It is a great honour and a great responsibility to carry on the work that Astrid Lindgren began. I am not only grateful for the recognition this prize brings, but for a country that puts such tremendous value on children’s books and children’s imaginations.

In the memory of Astrid Lindgren, and with particular thanks to the heroes of her books – who are brave, original and free – and with my deepest gratitude to the ALMA jury – I accept this award with wonder and with joy.

I will do my very best to be worthy of it. Readmore

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award:ALMA is the world's largest award for children's and young adult literature. The award amounts to SEK 5 million and is given annually to a single laureate or to several. Authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters are eligible for the award, which is designed to promote interest in children's and young adult literature. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the foundation of our work. An expert jury selects the laureate:s from candidates nominated by institutions and organisations all over the world. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was founded by the Swedish government in 2002 and is administered by the Swedish Arts Council. ω.

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Isabel Allende Foundation

Readers of contemporary fiction do not need an introduction about Chilean  novelist Isabel Allende who in last November received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom which is the highest civilian honours given to an individual for their contributions to social and cultural spheres.

One of her many titles.

“Her novels and memoirs tell of families, magic, romance, oppression, violence, redemption — all the big stuff,” President Obama told the public. “But in her hands, the big became graspable and familiar and human.” In The Santiago Times Valerie Dekimpe reported President Barak Obama as saying.

It is a mammoth task for her readers to follow her for she has written a great deal in terms of sheer volume. She has been translated in almost all the major languages of the world; you think of a language and chances are she has been translated into that one, as well.

Apart from her being a word-soul she does a lot of charitable work through her charity organisation Isabel Allende Foundation which she had set out in memoriam and honour of her 28 year daughter Paula who died in 1992.

Isabel Allende

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Natalia Carbajosa

The Humanion presents Dr Natalia Carbajosa's original poetry in Spanish from  her unpublished collection,  LUGAR.

… ya en la polis griega en modo resplandeciente el lugar actúa y luego, a lo largo de nuestra historia cada vez más profana de occidente, el lugar domina en forma indiscutida, eso sí, prevaleciente en la noción de patria. De patria de historia, de patria de lenguaje y de modos de vida, de cultura. Pues que “el lugar” fue, como toda noción fundamental al pensamiento, antes que “natural”, y no digamos “racional”, sagrado. María Zambrano, Algunos lugares de la poesía

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Destino


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Ahí
Cuándo
El poema
Punto de fuga
Amor
Objetivo
Deseo de hibernar
Todos los recién nacidos se parecen
Ventaja metafísica
Por qué amar/odiar el Western
Alta tecnología
Lugar
Madre, hermanas
Instante
Ella y tú
Días sin memoria
Dependencias de un poeta
El valor de soñar
Pie para un mismo paisaje
Al poeta preso de su cuerpo
Cencellada
Vísperas

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Nada
Otras y después otras
Lugar noche
Kairós
Como deseos
Manual de instrucciones
Maneras de estar
Conexiones
Azar
Palabras
Érase una vez / Once upon a time / C’était une fois
Intermèzzo
Metáfora
Cuestión de escala
Realidad
Kandinskiana
Leyes

Voluntad del agua

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(Sobre Cavafis y el hermoso juicio que de él hace Marguerite Yourcenar)

Extraño: perder la voz.
¡Antes poeta ciego
que mudo! Más extraño:

mudez en un poeta
que tanto prestó su voz
a las pasiones de otros.

Vuelve Apolo a faltar a su promesa.
Vuelve el hombre, que no es diosa madre
abrazada a la desesperación
a aceptar que sus planes no concuerden
con los del inmortal.

“Ese es el hombre”,
dijo el poeta.

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AHÍ


En los confines
de la ciudad
difusa, ahí donde


avaricia de escombros, cañares
y matorral de hinojo inunda
espacio no ganado


y se vislumbra apenas
esa espiga que tañe
por cubrir la extensión


de una barriada ahí en la
falda
del monte


partitura de nadie
por donde resbala el ojo
—pintor de afueras—


y el pie anda más ligero ya,
ya sin espalda.

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LUGAR NOCHE

Y así en la última luz, al final del día, lo que importa es el lenguaje.
Es lo no dicho al filo de lo dicho.
EAVAN BOLAND

Esto era
y no era
a la orilla de un espejo que
de noche
abandona la soberbia
imitación del mundo

y desde su esquina sin
cartografiar
emite una señal
no perceptible

todavía

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ELLA Y TÚ

Lo mismo que el “otro” de Machado
y el poeta
os lleváis razonablemente bien

por eliminación
llegasteis a encontraros
cuando tú renunciaste a buscar

lo que siempre quedó fuera de tu alcance
(periférico anhelo: bibliotecas
de góticas vidrieras
y un rumor de arces rojizos susurrando intelligentsia)

no era para ti y al aceptarlo
quedaste casi sin nada
con solo lo de dentro

ahí estaba ella
ni indulgente ni severa

paseáis entre pinos y un cielo purísimo de otoño
al fondo el monte que agranda el eco
de vuestro incesante conversar

cofre de piedra
centinela único
silueta de una grandiosidad —ahora sí—
antigua y bien afinada

al alcance de pequeñas voces

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DÍAS SIN MEMORIA

Porque todo estaba ahí
en el revoloteo del color
(iris de los primeros años)


solo más tarde inmóvil
afán y como ausente


un solo día de días
sin necesidad
de memoria


en su lugar
polvo de oro al posarse


sobre todas las cosas
pigmento veraz
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AMOR

Una casa espaciosa
va contando
grietas, puertas que cierran mal

la reparamos
con idéntico mimo
que si fuera un bebé delicado

cuando seamos viejos
y nos falte energía
para tapar nuevas grietas

lo llevaremos al cuarto más pequeño
donde atenderlo mejor y allí nos seguirá
pareciendo

grande
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ÉRASE UNA VEZ / ONCE UPON A TIME / C’ÉTAIT UNE FOIS


… habría que abordar la división de la humanidad en dos partes:
una parte haciendo frente al reto de la complejidad, la otra con la tarea
antigua y terrible de la supervivencia. Este es un aspecto fundamental
del fracaso del proyecto moderno.
J.F. LYOTARD


PAro pRima derriÉsgo FROB FMI
activosHIPOtecarios


el hipo de un sapo cuando salta: FROB, FROB


otro día de cole
sin desayunar
el libro de mates
ininteligible como un ACRÓNIMO
como un eufemismo
como el desconcierto de
adultos perdidos y en bata por la casa
como en un recodo espeso del bosque
(al menos ella) (dicen)
Pero érase


que nadie era príncipe: igual da(d)
¿de? ¡Oportunidades!


Llévese 3 y pague 2
Llévese 2 y pague 3
Llévese… je bien sais…


Fabulosos premios para quien adivine
el final de esta historia


no hay tostadas
se han acabado
hasta las migas
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KANDINSKIANA

Para José Miguel Desuárez

Rojo tal vez. O azul. No rosa.
Sobre todo no rosa (la vie en)
sino verde-ojo, verde-que-te-quiero ojo
tras carcelero cristal: naranja.
No blanco el tiempo ahora sino agua (incoloro…),
o tal vez ocre. Parece que iba a ser
ayerañil. Pero el tubo cerca, cerca,
por si quel che sarà.
Historia de todos. De ti. Colores todos
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LEYES

I


(nacimiento de un río)

Asoman piernas cubiertas de flecos

sinuosas corrientes de hiedra
remontando el curso

¿de quién como salmones
reblandecidos?

II
(sin título)

Yo toco el cielo,
yo toco la tierra…

Limón y clavo ahuyentan
al mosquito tigre

Rebaños (de los de Homero)
surcan el surco y ocultan
ruedas, cascos

Yo toco el ______...

III
(¿hay alguien ahí?)

Preguntó mientras subía hacia la cima
pero sin reparar
en los árboles-pájaro,
en los pájaros-árbol.

No llega la noche,
no enciende hogueras,
no.
Y sí.

¿Hay alguien ahí?
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Natalia Carbajosa on Poetry Day

Published on: 03/10/15
 

Dr Natalia Carbajosa

Natalia Carbajosa was born in 1971 in the south of Spain (Cádiz). She has studied English at the University of Salamanca, obtaining a Doctorate on Shakespeare studies in 1999. From 1995 to 1998 she was co-editor of the literary magazine "Parásito", together with other university students. Since 1999 she has been teaching English at the University of Cartagena.

She has also taught English Literature at the National Distance Education University (UNED). Poetry books: "Los puentes sumergidos" ("The Submerged Bridges"), 2000; "Pronóstico" ("Forecast"), 2005; "Los reinos y las horas" ("The Kingdoms and the Hours"), 2006. Short stories: "Patologías" ("Pathologies"), 2005.

She collaborates with translations and research articles in national and foreign magazines on literature, theatre and cinema and, has participated in seminars on Renaissance Studies and contemporary Angloindian and South African literature.

Some of her poems have been translated into Romanian and published in a Canadian magazine. Here, The Humanion presents some of her original poetry in Spanish.

Main Translation Works

H.D Trilogía

Kathleen Raine, Adiós, prados felices. In collaboration with Adolfo Gómez Tomé.

Rae Armantrout, Poemas 2004-2014

Kathleen Raine, Utilidad de la belleza

Blogs & Performances

Poetry Articles

Dreams & Tales Performance

Natalia's Poem Desde una estrella enana into Songs by Antonio Arias
 

On Poetics

Recent Poetry Books

Desde una estrella enana
Tu suerte está en Ispahán
La vida extraña

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Published on: 03/10/15
 

Poetry

October Poetry Month Special

Poets' Letter Magazine Archives Poetry Pearl : Katherine Michaud

Pablo Neruda Might Have Been Killed

 

The Guardian reports, quoting Associated Press that The Chilean  government has acknowledged that Nobel-prize winning poet Pablo Neruda might have been killed after the 1973 coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.

The Guardian reports, ''The interior ministry released a statement on Thursday amid press reports that Neruda might not have died of cancer as previously believed.'' Read on The Guardian

In the meanwhile, they are trying to name a Chilean Airport after Neruda and we leave this for you (that what he did become and forever that shall remain as such: singing)

De pena en pena cruza sus islas el amor
y establece raices que luego riega el llanto,
y nadie puede, nadie puede evadir los pasos
del corazon que corre callado y carnicero.

Asi tu y yo buscamos un hueco, otro planeta,
en donde no tocara la sal tu cabellera,
en donde no crecieran dolores por mi culpa,
en donde viva el pan sin agonia.

LXXI Cien Sonetos de amor: Pablo Neruda

Posted on: November 7, 2015

Nobel Lecture Given by Wislawa Szymborska : Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996

The Poet and the World

Trans: Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. But I have a feeling that the sentences to come - the third, the sixth, the tenth, and so on, up to the final line - will be just as hard, since I'm supposed to talk about poetry. I've said very little on the subject, next to nothing, in fact. And whenever I have said anything, I've always had the sneaking suspicion that I'm not very good at it. This is why my lecture will be rather short. All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Contemporary poets are sceptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself ... When filling in questionnaires or chatting with strangers, that is, when they can't avoid revealing their profession, poets prefer to use the general term "writer" or replace "poet" with the name of whatever job they do in addition to writing. Bureaucrats and bus passengers respond with a touch of incredulity and alarm when they find out that they're dealing with a poet. I suppose philosophers may meet with a similar reaction. Still, they're in a better position, since as often as not they can embellish their calling with some kind of scholarly title. Professor of philosophy - now that sounds much more respectable.

But there are no professors of poetry. This would mean, after all, that poetry is an occupation requiring specialized study, regular examinations, theoretical articles with bibliographies and footnotes attached, and finally, ceremoniously conferred diplomas. And this would mean, in turn, that it's not enough to cover pages with even the most exquisite poems in order to become a poet. The crucial element is some slip of paper bearing an official stamp. Let us recall that the pride of Russian poetry, the future Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky was once sentenced to internal exile precisely on such grounds. They called him "a parasite," because he lacked official certification granting him the right to be a poet ...  Read on

 

 

 

Belarusian Author Svetlana Alexievich Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Photo: Margarita Kabakova/Ersatz AB

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 has been awarded to Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian author "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".

Svetlana Alexievich was born 31 May 1948 in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankivsk, as the daughter of a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother. When the father had completed his military service, the family moved to Belarus, where both parents worked as teachers. After finishing school, Alexievich worked as a teacher and as a journalist, and she studied journalism at the University of Minsk between 1967 and 1972.

After her graduation she was referred to a local newspaper in Brest near the Polish border, because of her oppositional views. She later returned to Minsk and began an employment at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta. For many years, she collected materials for her first book U vojny ne ženskoe lico (1985; War's Unwomanly Face, 1988), which is based on interviews with hundreds of women who participated in the Second World War. This work is the first in Alexievich's grand cycle of books, "Voices of Utopia", where life in the Soviet Union is depicted from the perspective of the individual.

By means of her extraordinary method – a carefully composed collage of human voices – Alexievich deepens our comprehension of an entire era. The consequences of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl 1986 is the topic of Černobyl'skaja molitva (1997; Voices from Chernobyl – Chronicle of the Future, 1999). Cinkovye mal'čiki(1990; Zinky Boys – Soviet voices from a forgotten war, 1992) is a portrayal of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan 1979–89, and her work Vremja second chènd (2013; "Second-hand Time: The Demise of the Red (Wo)man") is the latest in "Voices of Utopia". Another early book that also belongs in this lifelong project is Poslednie svideteli (1985; "Last witnesses").

Important influences on Alexievich's work are the notes by the nurse and author Sofia Fedorchenko (1888–1959) of soldiers' experiences in the First World War, and the documentary reports by the Belarusian author Ales Adamovich (1927–1994) from the Second World War. Because of her criticism of the regime, Alexievich has periodically lived abroad, in Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden, among other places.

Posted October 10, 2015

Academy of American Poets Presents the Ninth Annual Poets Forum

October 8-10 in New York City


The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the schedule for its 9th annual Poets Forum in New York City, to be held on the New York University and The New School campuses October 8–10, 2015. A celebration of poets for poetry lovers, this year’s events kick off Thursday night with a reading and book signing by the 15 Academy of American Poets Chancellors, who include U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and Citizen author Claudia Rankine, Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander, and National Book Award winner Mark Doty. The reading is a unique opportunity to hear leading poets from across the U.S. sharing work on one stage.

The Academy of American Poets

Victoria Valentine In Poets' Letter Magazine Archives Poetry Pearl

In Your Shadow

Across the bluff you danced
While I tiptoed in your shadow
Wavering as a flame in March eagerness
Hastening toward a fertile spring

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The Candle Won't Blow Out Celebration of William Shakespeare 2016

There is no better way to celebrate William Shakespeare than reading his life's works

 

 

Hamlet

What a piece of work
is a ''man''! How noble in reason! how infinite in
faculties! in form and moving, how express and
admirable! in action, how like an angel! in
apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the
world! The paragon of animals!

Sonnet

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

400 years since the passing of William Shakespeare this year, yet he seems as young by as many years...................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Candle Won't Blow Out Celebration of William Shakespeare 2016

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Year Theta The Eighth Year: Day 349: Friday: September 08: 2023: The Humanion: We Are One

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life's Laurel Is You In One-Line-Poetry A Heaven-Bound Propagated Ray Of Light Off The Eye Of The Book Of Life: Love For You Are Only Once

 

 

 

 

 

I Question Therefore I Learn

 

Life: You Are The Law The Flow The Glow: In Joys In Hurts You Are The Vine-Songs On The Light-Trellis

 

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VIII London Poetry Festival 2023: October 14-15 

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