9 days ago the poet from Matanzas Carilda Oliver Labra left this world; but that only means that her earthly life gave way to a phenomenon that many believe impossible: immortality. Thousands have been the expressions of affection and respect that have come to the house of Tirry 81 from any part of the world…. Continue Reading »
In some slip of the time is a special book. Not only for being dedicated to children or for constituting a tribute to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in the romances it contains, but also because it manages to capture realities of everyday life, samples of fertile imagination and an invitation to enter… Continue Reading »
Culture serves to nourish the spirit, provide emotional tranquility, recreate, strengthen identities, instruct and educate. That is the essence that defends since 2015 the workshop of design and crafts offered by Matanzas publishing house Vigía to children and adolescents. Marialva Ríos, the main designer of the institution, is responsible each year to lead the children… Continue Reading »
– Where is it, Carilda? Behind what verse? We warn you that we read it over and over again, at least until it became redundant, at least until you could see it. You talked about Ten Cents, which today is called Varieties and where the only thing that costs ten cents is chewing gum. You… Continue Reading »
Can poetry die? It is impossible, I think. Then Carilda Oliver Labra did not really die this August 29th ; in her books, in the San Juan river, in Matanzas all, she is Carilda as a phoenix, she is reborn, she constantly resurfaces in a thousand different ways. “That life make them the best gift… Continue Reading »
Among the purposes of summer cultural programs, each year in Cuba there are proposals in which recreation and learning complement each other. This being the case, it can be said that one of the greatest successes of the summer season was the literary crusades by the municipalities of the province, organized by the Provincial Center… Continue Reading »
The letters become disordered in Tirry 81; the typewriter goes silent to wipe away her tears for a poet who no longer writes. There remain then on the desk the good memories of many years and nights of sleeplessness that saw the birth of poems and sonnets. Here is the silence, submerged in the walls… Continue Reading »
On August 29, death believed itself the winner, but it was just that, a wrong judgment of reality that led her to imagine that catching a free spirit was possible. Migrating to other sidereal spaces can never condemn our loved ones to absence, silence or inertia, much less when the proportions of the soul are… Continue Reading »
Love of Big City, a poem written by the Apostle José Martí in 1882, enriches the Classics Collection, from the Vigía Editions, in Matanzas city, in a recent plaquette with the design of the plastic artist Michel Milián Maura and edition by Gladys Mederos . The publication of Love of Big City, during August of this… Continue Reading »
Sanchez Figueras Bridge, 1916. San Carlos and San Severino de Matanzas, the neoclassical city of Cuba, will be 325 years old on October 12th. The anniversary becomes motivation for a broad constructive movement directed, fundamentally, to rehabilitate buildings and public spaces, in addition to restoring the patrimony. Two books, in my opinion recently published,… Continue Reading »
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