Abril para la palabra 2024
Abril para la palabra is a cultural event committed to promote the magic of Spanish and English words among our students since 2016. It can be held in-person or virtually.
Abril para la palabra 2024: 9th Edition
Second Poetry Meeting: Angels in the Land of the Enchantment
April 18-20, 2024
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Abril para la palabra 2024 includes plenty of great poetry readings, literary talks, book presentations, and much more by our special guests: Carmen Amato, Lilly Blake, Adriana Candia, Ana Gabriela Hernandez, Cynthia Melendrez, Victoria Montemayor, Ruby Myers, Virginia Ordóñez, Vielka Solano, and Sylvia Vergara. The meeting in 2024 will be an Angels in the Land of Enchantment reunion for ten talented women writers from Mexico and the USA.
Special thanks to the LAII Department for supporting this event.
See the program, come and enjoy “the magic of words”.
Thursday 18th
Victoria Montemayor: Dante: Tra amore e morte (Talk in Italian)
Rachelle Duke´s Italian course
MH 115
2:00 a 3:00pm
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Vielka Solano: El servicio como vocación, la poesía como salvación (Bilingual Talk)
LAII Conference Room
3:00-4:00
Ruby Myers. Pero lo recuerdo como si fuera cierto (Book presentation in Spanish)
Ortega Hall 335
5:00-5:45pm
Recital poético: Voces para la memoria (Poetry Reading in Spanish)
Ortega Hall 335
6:00-7:30pm
Friday 19th
Guitarra Flamenca con Gabriel Lautaro Osuna
Ortega Hall 335
2:25-3:00pm
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Lilly Blake. 100 rostros culturales de Chihuahua. (Book presentation in Spanish)
Ortega Hall 335pm
5:00-5:30pm
Virginia Ordoñez. Migraciones. (Book presentation in Spanish)
Ortega Hall 335pm
5:30-6:00pm
Thursday 25th
Michelle Otero: Donde la frontera no es una metáfora
Bilingual Poetry Reading with the author and Héctor Contreras López
Ortega Hall 335
5:00-6:00
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Please email any questions to Prof. Carmen Julia Holguín Chaparro cjhch@unm.edu
