“A la Vida” / “Here’s to Life”: canción distintiva de Shirley Horn
A la Vida (letras: Phyllis Molinary / música: Artie Butler) [canción distintiva de Shirley Horn (1934-2005)] . No tengo quejas ni arrepentimientos. Aún creo en perseguir los sueños y hacer las...
View Article“Les Feuilles Mortes” (Kosma/Prévert, 1945): les paroles originales traduites...
Dead Leaves (music/lyrics by Joseph Kosma/Jacques Prévert, 1945) . Oh, I’d like so much that you might remember those happy days when we were friends… Wasn’t life back then so beautiful? And didn’t...
View ArticlePoemas de Amor en Quechua: akllasqa rimaykuna [ Qosqo Qhechwasimipi ]
Ala de una mariposa “Troides Minos” en gran detalle_Derechos de autor_fotógrafo James Turner Poemas de Amor en Quechua: akllasqa rimaykuna [ Qosqo Qhechwasimipi ] . . . Jorge Lira (Huñuq) Kimsata...
View ArticleYuyarillaway: Poemas de amor en quechua
Recuérdame, Por Favor (Harawi) . 1. Me recordarás cuando en algún lugar de la tierra centelleante vuelva la luz del sol haciendo huir la noche oscura. 2. Me recordarás cuando en alguna parte baja de...
View ArticlePoemas de Amor – en el idioma quechua: amor de la tierra, y del pueblo:...
Poemas de Amor – en el idioma quechua: amor de la tierra, y del pueblo: Urqukunapa Yawarnin . . . Siembra de Papas (Harawi) . 1. ¿Estará creciendo todavía o ya no? ¿Papita que sembre en una tierra...
View ArticleBlack Hairstory Month: Baldheads, Dreads; Wigs & Things
. . . Okhai Ojeikere (born Johnson Donatus Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere) died just over a week ago, on February 2nd, 2014, at the age of 83. Born in 1930 in the Nigerian village of Ovbiomu-Emai, he...
View ArticlePoemas para o Dia Mundial de Combate à AIDS / Poemas para el Día Mundial de...
. . . “Não ser amado é uma simples desventura; a verdadeira desgraça é não saber amar.” (Albert Camus) . “No ser amado es una simple desventura; la verdadera desgracia es no saber amar.” (Albert Camus)...
View ArticleRalph Carmichael: “Un lugar tranquilo” / “A Quiet Place”
. Ralph Carmichael (Compositor góspel, nacido 1927) “Un lugar tranquilo” . Hay un lugar tranquilo lejos del paso raudo donde Dios puede calmar mi mente afligida. Guardado por árbol y flor, está allí...
View ArticleGregory Porter: “Somos pintados sobre un lienzo ” / “Painted on canvases”
ZP_Romare Bearden (1911-1988)_Morning of the Rooster_1980 . Gregory Porter (Cantante/compositor de jazz, nacido en 1971, EE.UU.) “Somos pintados sobre un lienzo ” . Somos como niños Somos pintados...
View ArticleMaria Bethânia canta letras de Carlos Bahr & Adriana Calcanhotto / Maria...
ZP_Maria Bethânia (born 1946), shown here at the age of 21, is a Brazilian singer and sister of Caetano Veloso . “Sin” / “Pecado” Composer / Compositor: Carlos Bahr (Tango lyricist / Letrista de...
View Article¿Eva, La Culpable? / Was IT All Eve’s Fault?
ZP_El Adán reconsiderado…¡Piense en él dos veces!_Adam reconsidered…Give him a second thought! . “No Eva…Solo era una cantidad excesiva del Amor, su Culpa.” (Aemilia Lanyer, poetisa inglés, 1569 –...
View ArticleAlootook Ipellie: Artist, Writer, Dreamer !
ZP_The agony and the ecstasy_illustration for a short story in Arctic Dreams and Nightmares_Alootook Ipellie, 1993 Alootook Ipellie (1951-2007) “It Was Not ‘Jajai-ja-jiijaaa‘ Anymore – But ‘Amen’” . It...
View ArticleMi’kmaw I am: Poems of Rita Joe + We are the Dreamers
ZP_Portrait of Rita Joe drawn by Tylesia Rita Joe (Mi’kmaw poet, 1932-2007, Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia, Canada) . “A Mi’kmaw Cure-All for Ingrown Toenail” . I have a comical story for ingrown toenail I...
View ArticleNgày Quốc tế Phụ nữ : Thơ Việt Nam / Poems for International Women’s Day :...
Untitled_photograph © photographer An-My Lê, born 1960 Dieu Nhan (Buddhist nun, 1041-1113) “Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death” . Birth, old age, sickness, death Are commonplace and natural. Should we...
View ArticleSunqupa Harawinkuna / Poemas del Corazón en el idioma quechua por Kusi Paukar
Kusi Paukar (César Augusto Guardia Mayorga) Sonqup Jarawiinin / El Cantar del Corazón Sunqupa Harawinkuna / Poemas del Corazón Lima, Perú, 1961 Traducciones del idioma quechua: Jesús Lara “Waylluy” ....
View ArticlePoemas de amor en la lengua quechua – Juan Wallparrimachi, José David...
Poemas de amor quechua – del siglo IXX: Juan Wallparrimachi, José David Berríos, y unos poetas bolivianos anónimos . “Urpi” . Munakusqay urpi, uyaririllaway, sunquyta paqumaq munakapullaway. ....
View Article“Orfeu Negro” and the origins of Samba + Wilson Batista’s “Kerchief around my...
ZP_poster for Orfeu Negro ZP_Breno Mello, 1931 – 2008, as Orpheus in the 1959 Marcel Camus film, Orfeu Negro_Mello was a soccer player whom Camus chanced to meet on the street in Rio de Janeiro. Camus...
View Article“Viva y no pare” / “Live and don’t hold back”: Nicolás Guillén + el Yoruba de...
Z|P_Cabeza de piña por Eduardo Roca alias Choco_pintor cubano Nicolás Guillén (Cuba, 1902-1989) A poem from “ ‘Son’ Motifs ” (1930) “Go get some dough” . Get some silver, go get some dough for us! Cuz...
View ArticleLove poems, Blues poems – from The Harlem Renaissance
ZP_Dance_by Aaron Douglas 1899-1979 Love poems, Blues poems – from The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes verses composed between 1924 and 1930: . . . “Subway Face” . That I have been looking...
View ArticleFrida + Diego: poems, pictures / pinturas, poemas
Today in Toronto, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a first-time-ever exhibition in Canada opens: “Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting”. Combining the divergent artworks of México’s famous...
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