Poesía para el Latinx Heritage Month por Xánath Caraza

Poesía para el Latinx Heritage Month por Xánath Caraza

 

El próximo 10 de octubre a las 7 p.m. CST tengo el honor de participar en una presentación de poesía para la celebración del Latinx Heritage Month de este 2025. Habrá que registrarse por adelantada ya que este evento es en línea. Ojalá y nos acompañen.

 

Espuma sangrante

 

Para los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa

 

Este mar que lame el arena

Olas hambrientas

Testigos sonoros

Luna de agua con ojos quietos

Inmóviles palmeras mudas frente a mí

Caminan los rayos del amanecer en las calles

Marchan ante el contenido rugido del mar

Aves migratorias en el horizonte

Con ellas vuelo

Arena salmón lamida por la espuma sangrante

Mientras cuarenta y tres niños perdidos

Gritan en tus líquidas rojas entrañas

Aullidos sordos, aullidos sordos

En este mar estático que ruge

Ruge mar, ruge, ruge sus nombres

Para la eternidad

 

 

Bleeding Foam

 

For the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa

 

This sea licks the sand

Hungry waves

Resounding witnesses

Moon of water with quiet eyes

Mute, immobile palm trees before me

Dawn sunrays walk through the streets

They march before the restrained roar of the sea

Migratory birds on the horizon

I fly with them

Salmon sand licked by bleeding foam

While forty-three lost children

Howl in your liquid red entrails

Silent screams, silent screams

In this static sea that roars

Roar, sea; roar, sea.  Roar their names

For eternity

 

Esposontli

 

Ompuali uan eyi Ayotzinapa momachtianij

 

Ni ueyiatl tlen ki pipitsoa xalli

Mayantomonatl

Tsilintlachianij

Mestliatl ika moseiujtokej ixtiolli

Ueyapacmej mokamatsakuaj no ixpa

Ipan kayejtipa mo nejnemiltiaj yaultsinko tlauil

Nejenmij imelaj kuakuatakankayotl ueyiatl

Nejnenmijtotomej ipan ueyiljuikatl

Ininuaya ni patlani

Chilkostikxalli tlen ki pipitsoa esposontli

Kema ompualuaneyi konemej polojtokej

Kuatsajtsij ipan mo chichiltikijtiko

Ijtikotsajtsilis, ijtikotsajtisilis

Ipan ni moseuijtokatl tlen kuakuataka

Xikuakuataka ueyiatl,xi kuakuataka, xi kuakuataka, 

xi kukuataka inin tokayotl

Ipan nochi yolistli.

 “Espuma sangrante” / “Bleeding Foam” / “Esposontli” están incluidos en el poemario Ocelocíhuatl (2015) de Xánath Caraza. Traducido al inglés por Sandra Kingery y al náhuatl por Tirso Bautista Cárdenas. Imagen de portada, “Jaguar Woman”, por Pola López. En 2016 Ocelocíhuatl recibió Mención Honorífica como Mejor Libro de Poesía en español para los International Latino Book Awards.

 

Xanath Caraza

 

 

“Hoy mujeres y hombres” por Xánath Caraza

 "Hoy mujeres y hombres” por Xánath Caraza

 

Ciudad con campos de flores rojas

cada pétalo lleva

el nombre de estudiantes que conocí.

 

Hoy mujeres y hombres.

Ya no niños inocentes

ni adolescentes rebeldes.

No hubo tiempo.

 

Hoy mujeres y hombres que demandan justa causa.

El derecho que no se debe de prohibir.

Derecho a ser educados.

A ser parte de la ciudad.

 

En las ciudades

donde los derechos

de igualdad no han nacido.

Donde la voz de aquellos que atravesaron

la frontera sea tan válida como la de los demás:

las calles están vacías.

 

Quiero recordar el color rojo

de los campos floridos.

El reflejo del sol y del agua.

La fuerza de sus palabras.

 

Ya no hay niños inocentes

ni adolescentes rebeldes.

No hubo tiempo.

Sólo mujeres y hombres forzados a crecer.

 

 

Xanath Caraza

Today Women and Men

 

City with fields of red flowers

each petal carries

the names of the students I met.

 

Today, women and men.

No longer innocent children

nor rebellious adolescents.

There was no time.

 

Today, women and men demanding a just cause.

The right that must not be prohibited.

The right to be educated.

To be part of the city.

 

In the cities

where the rights

of equality are not yet born.

Where the voice of those who cross

the border must be as valid as that of everyone else:

the streets are empty.

 

I want to remember the color red

of the flowery fields.

The reflection of the sun and the water.

The strength of their words.

 

No longer are they innocent children

nor rebellious adolescents.

There was no time.

Only women and men forced to grow.

 

 

 

“Hoy mujeres y hombres / Today Women and Men” is part of the collection Ocelocíhuatl (2015) by Xánath Caraza. Translated to the English by Sandra Kingery. Cover art by Pola López.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Un Poco De Todo

Xánath Caraza

 

2016 NACCS TEJAS POETRY BOOK AWARD

 

*Please Circulate Widely*

 

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies—Tejas Foco

 

Description of Award:

 

NACCS-Tejas invites nominations and submissions for its 2016 NACCS-Tejas Poetry Book Award. The 2016 NACCS Tejas Award for Non-Fiction Book Committee will consider any book published in 2015 in Texas or elsewhere. We welcome full-length collections of poems. We will recognize an outstanding work of poetry that best represents a significant topic related to the Mexican-American and/or Chicana/o experience in Texas. The award will be presented at the NACCS-Tejas Foco annual conference to be held at Lone Star College–Kingwood in Houston, Texas, February 18-20, 2016. There are no restrictions on the number of nominations per press or on the number of individuals—authors or readers—who can nominate a text. Books previously nominated for this award are not eligible. Nominations will be reviewed by a committee of NACCS-Tejas Foco members.

 

Procedure for Nominations:

Publishers or authors wishing to submit books for consideration should send a copy of the book to each of the committee members at the addresses below by the deadline of November 15, 2015. Nominations should include a submission cover letter, including the name of the author, the title of the book, press, and the date of publication.

 

All nominations must be received (not postmarked) by December 15, 2015.

For additional information, you may contact the Committee Chair Christopher Carmona at christophercarmona@myartelibre.com.

 

Committee Members

 

Christopher Carmona

939 W. De Soto Ave.

Alamo, TX 78516

 

Isaac Chavarría

608 N. Linares St.

Alton, TX 78573

 

 

Rossy Evelin Lima

700 Ciro St.

Donna, TX 78537

 

 

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Call for Papers University of North Georgia 2016 Arts and Letters Conference
                                                
                                                  February 26-28, 2016
                                             
                                                      Culture and Place

The 2016 University of North Georgia Arts and Letters Conference will explore the intersection of culture and place. Place is more than location—it is people, it is material, it is climate, it is culture. Places are made through human practices and institutions and are specifically designed and constructed to evoke memories, trigger identities, and embody histories in material form. Thus, the creation of place assigns meaning and helps to define who we are, and often, who we are not. We must ask not just how places come to be, but how and why they are important for social processes, cultural practices, and historical change. How do these connections play out? Are culture and place best understood as two separate entities, or as two dynamically related processes that are best understood through each other?

This interdisciplinary conference will take up these questions and others concerning culture and place. We welcome proposals from all disciplines on a wide range of topics. Possible themes include (but are not limited to):
How have climate, topography, etc., intersected with culture to shape political movements and/or the histories of states?

How have culture and place intersected to produce or perpetuate forms of (intersecting) oppression?

In what ways do culture and place intersect to produce conceptions of “natural” and “normal”?

How do the intersections of culture and place affect or produce notions of objectivity and subjectivity?

What is there to discover in the intersections of culture and place in music, literature, art, science, mathematics, history, philosophy, etc.?

How do places and material forms intersect with social practices, social structures, norms, values, power and inequality?

How does material culture shape and reflect place?

What is the relationship between travel, culture, and place?

How are places made and shaped through cultural practices and cultural forms (such as tourism, development, popular culture, material culture, the environment, etc.)?

How are race, history, power, politics, memory, and culture emplaced?

A CFP will go out at a later time for an edited volume on the conference theme. Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are welcome.

Please submit the following

An abstract of 300-400 words
Five Key Words
A brief biography

to: http://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/alconf/

by October 9th, 2015.

When submitting a proposal for a Panel, please indicate the names of all the panelists under “Presenter Information” and please upload abstracts for each panelist with a space between each.

Contact Sara Mason Sara.Mason@ung.edu or
George Wrisley George.Wrisley@ung.edu with questions.

 

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Ayúdanos a hacer de este festival una realidad.

Cada dólar es una gran contribución.

Latino Poets NY está preparando el cuarto Festival Latinoamericano de Poesía que se celebrará en la ciudad de Nueva York desde 11 hasta 13 noviembre, 2015. Poetas de gran trayectoria y calidad literaria compartirán su poesía en escuelas, universidades, cafés y centros comunitarios y librerías. Latino Poets NY se enorgullece en anunciar que durante tres años consecutivos hemos sido capaces de mantener festivales exitosos.

LPFNY también publica la antología Festival Latinoamericano de Poesía, un libro que incluye poemas de todos los poetas participantes.

Hoy, le pedimos a ser parte de este esfuerzo. Su generosa donación hará posible continuar la promoción del uso del español a través de la lectura y la escritura de la poesía.

¡Muchas gracias!

¿Nos ayudas compartiendo esta campaña?  http://www.latinopoetsny.com/

Karla Coreas
Directora
Latino Poets NY

 

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Finally, soon to be released my new bilingual book of poetry, Ocelocíhuatl (Mouthfeel Press, 2015), translated by Sandra Kingery.  Here is a sneak preview of a detail of the art for the cover by the amazing Los Ángeles artist, Pola Lopez.  More to come soon.  Viva la poesía!

 

Ocelocíhuatl by Xánath Caraza (Mouthfeel Press, 2015)