Bernardo Reyes (Temuco, 1951) is a poet and essayist. He has published the books Pájaros de contrasueño [Antidream birds], Karmazul, para duendes y sirenas [Blue karma for spirits and sirens], and Carta para un hijo imaginario y otras desmemorias [Letter to an imaginary son and other amnesias]. He is Pablo Neruda’s nephew. Letter to an imaginary son I write you […]
THE MAYOR GALLERY 21 Cork Street, First Floor, London W1S 3LZ T +44 (0) 20 7734 3558 F +44 (0) 20 7494 1377 www.mayorgallery.com [email protected] * * * LATIN AMERICAN WORKS ON PAPER 9 JAN – 23 FEB 2018 The Mayor Gallery presents a group show of seven Latin American artists who were either born […]
Mirka Arriagada Vladilo (Antofagasta, 1964) is a poet and psychiatrist. In 1987 she co-founded the poetry collective Lilith, which carried out initiation rites and clandestine activities. She has published the books Cuando el amor se echó a morir como un perro (Mago, 2014), Autobiogeografía (2002) and Lamentaciones, gemidos y ayes (Las Dos Fridas, 1998). Some of her works were published […]
David Villagrán Ruz (Santiago, 1984) published Solsticios [Solstices] (Marea Baja, 2009) after receiving a grant from the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura. His books include Declinación de un astro [Declination of a star] (La Calle Passy ediciones, 2011) and Habitar [Dwell] (TEGE, 2016), a plaquette that includes an excerpt from an unpublished book of the same name. He is one of the editors of […]
Diego Rosake (1979) lives in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He studied philosophy, and is now the editor of HD ediciones and a bookseller. He has written many articles and reviews, as well as several books, but the only one he recognizes as his own is Luna en bicicleta [Bicycling on the moon] (2015). Everything kills a moth I The nights of […]
Mauro Quesada (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979) is a poet and professor of literature. He has published three books of poetry: Bajo una extraña nevada [Under a strange snowfall], Fiebre [Fever] and Estamos para ayudarlo [We’re here to help]. He also directs the publishing project La carretilla roja. From Estamos para ayudarlo (2015): 2001 In 2001 […]
Álvaro Agurto Pincheira (Concepción, 1978) is a professor of special education at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación. He lived in Mexico from 2012 to 2015, where he studied a Licenciatura in Letras Hispánicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has participated in literary workshops with Carmen García, Germán Carrasco and the Mexican writer Citlali Ferrer. i […]
Omar Chauvié (Jacinto Aráuz, La Pampa, Argentina, 1964) is an Assistant Professor of Argentine Literature at the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca. He was one of the “poetas mateístas” in the ’80s along with Sergio Raimondi, Marcelo Díaz and the visual artist Silvia Gattari, a group that painted its own poems along with those of others as murals in the city […]
Ruta Dos Daniel Calabrese Colección Visor de Poesía (2017) 144 pp Ruta Dos, referred to officially as Autovía Juan Manuel Fangio, is a highway in Argentina that runs from north to south, Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata, passing through the town of Dolores where the poet Daniel Calabrese grew up. Driving along this road, with […]
El Congreso Gombrowicz en Buenos Aires está por lanzar Witolda, una revista con puro contenido gombrowicziano. Para financiarla arma una campaña de crowdfunding, que está disponible acá: www.idea.me/witolda El Congreso Gombrowicz presenta Witolda. Revista de la persistencia El Congreso Gombrowicz lanza la primera revista en español sobre Witold Gombrowicz. Una publicación de número único, que cuenta con […]
Miguel Naranjo Ríos (1970) is a poet, editor and enthusiast for Chilean folklore, collector of the discography of Violeta Parra, Los Jaivas and Margot Loyola, editor of the Chilean edition of Martín Fierro, devotee of open air markets, cumbia and rock, ex-student of Literature and current book designer. He directs the popular collection of poetry “Vox Populi” […]
Prologue of The Restless Life: Essential biography of Violeta Parra [La vida intranquila: Biografía esencial de Violeta Parra, Planeta Chile, 2017] by Fernando Sáez, printed here with the permission of the author. Too many words have been spoken and written about the complicated relationship of Chile, that abstract entity for which no one takes responsibility, with […]
Patriotismo Ryan Eckes, translated by Carlos Soto-Román Libros del Pez Espiral, 2017 Fifty green stars on the cover; seven green stripes on the back cover, like something you’d see on a lounge chair at the beach. Are stars & stripes patriotic if they’re green? Is this patriotism a form of aestheticism? What is patriotism, anyway? With […]