From Argentina Alfonsina Storni to the Bolivian Adela Zamudio, through the Chilean Gabriela Mistral, the Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli, the Spanish Gloria Fuertes, the Cuban Carilda Oliver, the Mexican Rosario Castellanos, the Puerto Rican Julia de Burgos, the Uruguayan idea Vilariño and the Colombian Laura Victoria. This is how Archiletras celebrates World poetry day, which has been celebrated since 1999. The full text of this tribute can be enjoyed here.
10 great poets, 10 women, who represent the summit of the richness of the lyric in Spanish. All of them, first -line figures in their country and admired worldwide. And all of them protagonists of some episode of Senses poemsthe podcast of Archiletras in which Arsenio School selects, comments and recites some of the best poems in Spanish in history every week, including the present.
Among the recommended works are love poems (and heartbreak) by Rosario Castellanos, Laura Victoria, Julia de Burgos and Idea Vilariño; social poems of Gloria Fuertes and Gabriela Mistral; or poems by Carilda Oliver and Gioconda Belli who claim the female voice without capujos; More a poem by Adela Zamudio that criticizes the hypocrisy of the church and a farewell poem by Alfonsina Storni.
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