Stay tuned! -- Our yearly PALABRA Archive digital release will be taking place the first week of October, 2023.
This year's published recordings will include a unique selection of Caribbean, Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese and Latinx poets and writers, among them Venezuelan author and former president, Rómulo Gallegos; the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Meg Medina, as well as a recently captured interview with award-winning author and journalist Elena Poniatowska. In addition, this year's release will include five new recordings of Indigenous poets from the Nahua and Mixtec communities in Mexico, a session with Colombian writer Evelio Rosero, and many more! (See below for the complete list).
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Georgette Dorn reflects on the PALABRA ArchiveArgentine poet Loreley El Jaber reading from her workArgentine author Santiago Giralt reading from his workArgentine playwright Mariano Tenconi BlancoBrazilian poet Lucia Aizim reading from her workBrazilian poet Salgado Maranhão reading from his work with translator Alexis LevitinBrazilian writer Rachel de Queiroz reading from her workBrazilian poet and playwright Ariano Suassuna reading from his workChilean author Isabel Allende and Costa Rican art critic Ricardo Ulloa Barrenechea reading from their workChilean novelist and essayist Benjamín Subercaseaux reading from his workChilean author Mercedes Valdivieso reading from her workColombian writer Alberto Miramon reads from his workColombian author Evelio Rosero reading from his workCosta Rican-Mexican poet Alfredo Cardona Pena reads from his verseCosta Rican poet Carlos de la Ossa reading from his workCuban writer Julieta Campos reading from her proseCuban author Margarita Mateo Palmer reading from her workCuban writer Armando Valladares reading from his poetry and proseEcuadorian author Adriana Borja Enríquez reading from her workEcuadorian poet and writer José Alfredo Llerena reading from his workGuatemalan writer Ricardo Castañeda Paganini reading from his bookGuatemalan writer Carlos Solórzano reading from his proseMexican poet and author Elvia Ardalani reading from her workMexican poet Nadia López García reading from her work in Spanish and MixtecMexican author Yuri Herrera reading from his workInterview with Mexican author Elena PoniatowskaNahua poet Irma Xóchitl Cuauhtémoc Xicoténcatl reading from her workNahua poet Natalio Hernández reading from her workNahua poet Ateri Miyawatl reading from her workNew Mexican author E.A. (Tony) Mares reading from his poetryMexican poet Esteban Ríos Cruz reading from his work in Spanish and ZapotecPanamanian poet Elsie Alvarado de Ricord reading from her workPanamanian writer and journalist Gil Blas Tejeira reading from his workPeruvian poet Carlos Germán Belli reading from his workPeruvian poet Alejandro Romualdo reading from his workPeruvian writer Luis Alberto Sánchez reading from his El PerúPortuguese author Ana Luísa Amaral reading from her workPortuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda reading from his workPuerto Rican author Mayra Santos Febres reading from her workPuerto Rican poet Carmelina Vizcarrondo reading from her workSpanish author Jorge Carrión reading from his workSpanish author Javier Cercas reading from his workSpanish author María Dueñas reading from her workSpanish author José María Merino reading from his workU.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón in conversation with Brazilian poets Paulo Britto and Beatriz MalcherVenezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos reading from his proseVenezuelan author Enza García Arreaza reading from her workVenezuelan author Jacqueline Goldberg reading from her workYA author Meg Medina reading from her workWayuu author Rafael Mercado reading from his workArgentine poet Alfredo Veiravé reading from his workArgentine poet Arturo Capdevila introducing and commenting on his verseBolivian author Liliana Colanzi reading from her workBrazilian author José Cândido de Andrade Muricy reading from his workBrazilian poet Myriam Fraga reading from her workBrazilian writer Erico Veríssimo reading from his workChicana author Kathleen Alcalá reading from her workChicano author Carlos Gil reading from his workChicanx poet Sara Borjas reading from her workChilean poet Marjorie Agosín reading from her workColombian author Melba Escobar reading from her workColombian poet and literary critic Rafael Maya reading from his poetryCosta Rican poet Eulalia Bernard reading and commenting on her workCuban poet Robert Lima reading from his workCuban-American author Kristen Millares Young reading from her workCuban-American author Ruth Behar reads the poetry in Rolando Estevez's "Otra piel para otra entraña"Cuban-American writer José Triana reading from his poetry and proseDominican poet León David reading from his workEcuadorian writer Francisco Tobar reading from his workEcuadorian writer Gonzalo Zaldumbide reading from his workHaitian poet Léon Laleau reading from his workMapuche poet Graciela Huinao Alarcón reading from her workMapuche poet Juan Huenuan Escalona Escalona reading from his workMapuche poet María Isabel Lara Millapan reading from her workMapuche poet Marjorie Huaiqui reading from her workMexican poet Francisco Segovia reading from his workMexican poet Hernán Bravo Varela reading from his workMexican poet Judith Santoprieto reading from her workMexican poet Natalia Toledo reading from her work in Spanish and ZapotecMexican poet Pura López Colomé reading from her workMexican poet Sara Uribe reading from her workMexican-American author Tanya Huntington reading from her workPanamanian poet and writer Enrique Jaramillo Levi reading from his workMexipina author Donna Miscolta reading from her workPanamanian poet and writer Enrique Jaramillo Levi reading from his workPeruvian poet Alberto J. Ureta reading from his workPeruvian poet and writer César Miró reading from his poetryPortuguese author João Tordo reading from his workPortuguese author Teolinda Gersão reading from her workPuerto Rican author Lilliana Ramos Collado reading from her workPuerto Rican poet Gegman Lee reading from his workQuechua poet Washington Cordova Huaman reading from his workSalvadoran American poet Claudia Castro Luna reading from her workSpanish poet Ana Merino reading from her poemsSpanish poet Manuel Vilas reading from his workSpanish writer Juan Goytisolo reading an essay on Franco's deathTexan poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico reading from her workU.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón in conversation with Argentine poets Laura Wittner and Daniela AuginskyVenezuelan author Carlos Patiño Pereda reading from his workVenezuelan author Hensli Rahn Solórzano reading from his workArgentine author Marcos Aguinis reading from his workAlistair Reid interviews Jorge Luis BorgesBrazilian poet Beatrix dos Reis Carvalho reading from her workBrazilian writer Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco reading from his workBrazilian poet and writer Henriqueta Lisboa reading from her workBrazilian poet Fernando Ferreira de Loanda reading from his workBrazilian scholar and bibliophile José E. Mindlin interviewed by Georgette DornChilean poet Diego Dublé Urrutia reading from his workChilean writer Jorge Edwards reading from his workChilean poet Pedro Lastra reading from his workChilean writer Manuel Rojas reading two short stories from his Antologías de cuentosColombian writer Luis López de Mesa reading from his workPuerto Rican-Colombian poet Olga Elena Mattei reading from her workColombian writer Hernando Téllez reads his workCosta Rican author Rima de Vallbona reads from her workCuban author, poet, and anthropologist Ruth Behar reading from her workCuban writer Antonio Benítez Rojo reading from his proseCuban poets Padilla Heberto and Belkis Cuza Malé reading from their workCuban scholar Graciela Palau de Nemes conversing with Georgette M. DornCuban-American author Achy Obejas reading from her workDominican poet Aída Cartagena Portalatín reading from her workDominican poet and writer Pedro Mir reading from his workEcuadorian writer Jaime Chaves Granja reading from his workEcuadorian writer Jorge Salvador Lara reading from his workSalvadoran poet Claribel Alegría reading from her workGuatemalan poet Rafael Arévalo Martínez reading from his workGuatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso reading from his workMexican writer Griselda Álvarez reading from her poetry and proseMexican writer Inés Arredondo reading from her workMexican writer José Luis Cuevas reading from his workMexican writer Sergio Galindo reading from his workMexican writer Elena Poniatowska reading from her workMexican author Francisco Segovia reading from his poetryPanamanian writer César A. Candanedo reading from his workPanamanian short story writer Manuel Ferrer Valdéz reading from his workPanamanian poet Stella Sierra reading from her workPeruvian writer Harry Beleván reading from his prosePeruvian literary scholar Antonio Cornejo Polar reading from his workPeruvian poet Alberto Escobar reading from his workPeruvian poet and writer Amalia Puga de Losada reading from her workPeruvian poet-playwright Juan Ríos reading from his poetryPortuguese author Dulce Maria Cardoso reading from her workPortuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares reading from his workPuerto Rican writer Arturo Morales Carrión reading from his workSpanish novelist and critic Juan Benet reading from his workSpanish (Catalan) poet and writer Joan Brossa reading from his workSpanish poet José Manuel Caballero Bonald reading from his workSpanish poet Ernestina de Champourcin reading from her workSpanish (Catalan) novelist Rosa Regàs reads from her work and is interviewd by Georgette DornInterview with Lewis Hanke, director of the Library of Congress Hispanic Foundation, 1939-1951
