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Finnegan the Poet - Finnegan the Poet (born March 17, 1969) is a bisexual queer American expatriate Poet, Writer and Performance Artist of Afro-Caribbean, Irish and Cuban decent. Originally from New York City he currently resides in Amsterdam.

Paradiso (1966 novel) - Paradiso was the only novel by Cuban poet José Lezama Lima to be completed published during his lifetime. The narrative consists of the childhood and youth of José Cemí, told in a highly baroque experimental style, and depicts many scenes which have remarkable resonances with Lezama's own life as a young poet in Havana.

Guantanamera - "Guantanamera" ("The girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song. The lyrics are based on the first poem in the collection Simple Verses by Cuban nationalist poet José Martí, adapted by Julián Orbón.

Nicolás Guillén - Nicolás Guillén (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was an Afro-Cuban poet. Born in Camagüey, Cuba.

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Casal and Maceo: Art, War and Race in Colonial Havana - An academic article uses the contrasts between white poet Julián del Casal and black general Antonio Maceo to consider the conflicts and compromises of Cuban independence.

Jorge Luis Seco - Cuban-born poet and novelist provides biographical information, photos, and reviews. [English/Spanish]

Cuban poet Heberto Padilla dies while visiting Auburn University - [CNN]

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Taste of Colorado - ... into 15 languages, no single volume of her poetry exists in English-until now. Award-winning translator/Colorado Poet Laureate Mary Crow has chosen the finest of Orozco's poems for this long-awaited Spanish-English bilingual ... 1999. Mary Crow has published several award-winning translations. She teaches at Colorado State University and is the Poet Laureate of Colorado. Crow is the author of "Borders "and "I Have Tasted the Apple. No Place ...

American Cinema Latin Nation Video Visible - ... all stripes. These collected essays explore important elements of Latin American cinema and its associated national film industries. Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan, The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to ...

Nos Pasa Puerto Que Rico - ... Pales Matos, Although today Luis Pales Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America". Pales Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he ...

Bear Pepper Salt Shaker - ... a friend he now knows will die. It sets the tone for the explorations to follow as the poet haunts his past: death, traumatic experience, the uneasiness that comes from being unable to forestall tragedy, all combine ... of himself as Pancho Villa, "my poetry at the end of a pistol", and invokes the spirits of poets past, "beggars on the media of Limbo, holding shabby signs: Will Work for Truth". Ultimately, Cue Lazarus ...

Memory of Love Lyric - ... side with hope, love and humanity. Despite his calls for prayer, Miller avoids metaphysics; he is a love poet among natural objects-a wet towel, a tube of toothpaste, a comb, a bathroom faucet, a bridge, a hat, a steering wheel and some lost keys. Like the poet, his muses also do not relent. All nine sisters put in their time. The reader will find ...

This Years Love Lyric - ... longing for God, the Divine Beloved, has always been a central theme in Sufism. Although, as the great poet Rumi tells us, Love speaks "a strange language", his message of spiritual love still speaks directly to our ... marrow transplant or as confused as a brief love. In lyric verses with a driving narrative force, the poet depicts loved ones coping with illness, sometimes achieving recovery, and reshaping a family. From his hospital bed ...

Attorney Editor International Law Letter - ... arbitrator and a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five With a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon this book includes excerpts from diaries, letters from and to children, wives and parents, ...