Celebration of the American poet Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. Readers: Students of Aquinas American School — Madrid. On the occasion of the celebration of the Night of Books 2020, students from Aquinas American School present a selection of poems by Louise Glück in collaboration with American Space Madrid. The reading
Poem of the month: “Colors passing through us,” by Marge Piercy Welcome to the first session of the Afternoon Poetry Club. Valentine's Day is about to pass by this week so we're going to think about love, or rather, about love poems in this first session. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are
Poetry recital by Kenneth Goldsmith within the Poetas por Km² Festival “Poetas por Km² is not a poetry festival, it is a poetry festival and Publication Fair. This is the premise of one of the most ambitious projects on the literary scene in Madrid and this year in New York. Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of
“Public Works” exhibition by Nicanor Parra “Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a Chilean poet, mathematician and physicist. He is considered the creator of antipoetry, a genre that uses elements of common language and modifies them to the point of absurdity in order to attract the reader's attention. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including, in 2011, the Cervantes Prize. The
“The night has no walls” by JM Caballero Bonald “A new book of poems by Caballero Bonald, National Poetry Prize. This new poetic installment, made up of a hundred poems, represents, in the words of Caballero Bonald himself, a sum of last wishes.” Extracted from The House of the Book. See also: http://bit.ly/16PQge8 http://mun.do/XuIeEI https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Caballero_Bonald
“Mealtime Poems” by Frank O'Hara “New York school” poet, Frank O'Hara was born in 1926 and died in an accident in 1966. He had only published this book upon his death, but had a huge number of unpublished poems; something that agrees with your idea of creation
“Pameos y meopas” by Julio Cortázar “Essential book of poetry by Julio Cortázar.” Extracted from Fnac. See also: http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/cortazar/pameos.htm http://www.revistadelauniversidad.unam.mx/0104/pdfs/cortazar_poeta.pdf http://es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar The selected titles are a sample of the recently loaned materials from the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in this work, you can check its availability in the IIE library catalogue. Pameos
On January 24 at 19:30 p.m. In the library of the International Institute there will be a meeting with Stephen Tapscott, professor of literature at MIT, poet and renowned translator. It will be a unique opportunity to learn about his personal work as well as his vision of the art of poetic translation. He will be accompanied by Margery Resnick, professor
“The poetics of space” by Gaston Bachelard “In the hands of Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), the literary essay acquired a truly protean fluidity and freedom. Bachelard, the masterful philosopher, was at once the psychologist and the poet; the loving and very careful decipherer of images; the phenomenologist capable of reading in verses, novels, poems and hymns
“Foam Manual – Human Verses” by Gerardo Diego “The distancing from reality and the appreciation of the image result in the culmination of its avant-garde era. Human Verses is, on the contrary, a group of compositions without unity, the first book in chronological order, although not strictly speaking.” Extracted from The Court