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Ode to Flo (1929-2020)
October 05, 2020The poet uses the Yiddish word “chutzpadik,” which means “nervy.”
Read moreBrazilian singer Vital Farias’ ‘An Amazon Tale’ in poetic new English translation
November 23, 2020English lyrics for Brazilian singer/songwriter Vital Farias’ “Saga da Amazônia,” a poetic translation.
Read moreA new year poem for Latin America, ‘La Paciente’
January 04, 2021Latin America lies on a hospital gurney after yet another amputation...
Read moreGuiomar’s story: Putting Paulo Freire’s philosophy of literacy into practice
April 08, 2021When Guiomar Albuquerque was 13 years old, she began to teach fishermen in the Ilha do Maruim (Mosquito Island) favela of Olinda how to read and write.
Read more‘The Slackers and Other Stories’: Earnest purpose, useful lessons and enjoyable reading
July 19, 2022The Slackers, comprising five separate short stories, presents small slices of historical fiction about the land the Romans called “Lusitania.”
Read morePeter Lownds
October 05, 2020Read morePeter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
Read more‘Never-Ending Youth’: A poetic novel or an essayistic memoir?
October 17, 2022Never-Ending Youth is a 2017 novel by the Brazilian journalist Urariano Mota, active in the clandestine Communist Party of Brazil during the harshest period of the country’s military dictatorship from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. The novel is set in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state and a major city of Brazil’s Northeast, a patriarchal cultural zone which corresponds to the U.S. South as a former plantation area but...
Read moreLeading Brazilian Communist José Carlos Ruy has died
February 08, 2021Please understand, I have no title for this text. I’ll let André Cintra, the competent cultural editor of Vermelho, choose one.
Read more‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 02, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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