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Photos from Docs in Motion Documentary Nights

This past April 15, we had our first Documentary Night with Docs in Motion's screening of Nicolás Guillén Landrián's Inside Downtown and
El fin pero no es el fin/The end but not the end by Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla and Victor Jimenez Sosa. We were lucky to have with us Guillen's family, and tons of admirers and friends. The event was hosted by Lola, and after the screenings the sounds of FatKingBulla entertained us with their sounds!

Thanks to Docs in Motion, Carla Lopez, and Harvest Delights who sponsored the event.

Photos by Elsa Roberto, Jose Ramon Morales and myself.

New Works by Mayra Abo

Mayra Abo's exhibit The Many Faces of a Virgin is not to be missed. It is an homage to women in general, and she has turned them all into virgins. Come see her altar!

Pictured, La vestal, la virgen, y la diosa, Acrylic,
24 x 36

Docs in Motion hoy en El Nuevo Herald

El Bolero de Elena

Cada vez que Elena Tamargo choca con el lente de un fotógrafo o fotógrafa en este caso, crea una explosión. Una explosión de luz!
Elena aparte de ser una mujer bella, e inteligente, tiene luz y angel! Aqui un dia en el patio de Zu, entre amigos, cantando su bolero favorito y el lente de la fotógrafa Marta Ramos que la capturo....

A poem by Ted Hughes

Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days
by Ted Hughes

She gives him his eyes, she found them
Among some rubble, among some beetles

He gives her her skin
He just seemed to pull it down out of the air and lay it over her
She weeps with fearfulness and astonishment

She has found his hands for him, and fitted them freshly at the wrists
They are amazed at themselves, they go feeling all over her

He has assembled her spine, he cleaned each piece carefully
And sets them in perfect order
A superhuman puzzle but he is inspired
She leans back twisting this way and that, using it and laughing
Incredulous

Now she has brought his feet, she is connecting them
So that his whole body lights up

And he has fashioned her new hips
With all fittings complete and with newly wound coils, all shiningly oiled
He is polishing every part, he himself can hardly believe it

They keep taking each other to the sun, they find they can easily
To test each new thing at each new step

And now she smoothes over him the plates of his skull
So that the joints are invisible

And now he connects her throat, her breasts and the pit of her stomach
With a single wire

She gives him his teeth, tying the the roots to the centrepin of his body

He sets the little circlets on her fingertips
She stiches his body here and there with steely purple silk
He oils the delicate cogs of her mouth
She inlays with deep cut scrolls the nape of his neck
He sinks into place the inside of her thighs

So, gasping with joy, with cries of wonderment
Like two gods of mud
Sprawling in the dirt, but with infinite care
They bring each other to perfection.


Pictured, an original piece by Candida Rodriguez

intimités: a video by Emy Toledo

CCEMiami. PRESENTATION OF THE ARCHIVE EUGENIO FLORIT

El joven y la rosa de Juan Carlos Valls

el hombre joven busca la carne que encontrara
apetecible y dulce en su antigua maestra.
busca en libros y en sueños la mariposa diestra
en volar los antojos que otro joven notara

al estrechar su mano tras un corto saludo.
sabe que no está hecho sino para manzanas
y encierra su deseo en verdades humanas
que al parecer su cuerpo de animal nunca pudo

interpretar a solas. tiene un vasto camino
entre sus claridades y una inmensa turbina
impulsa los designios que arman su destino.

como una lucidez dibujándose airosa
se abre paso en su noche la oscuridad divina
que le corrompe el sueño y le inventa una rosa.


Juan Carlos Valls
Miami, Abril 20, 2010


Foto de Marta Ramos

Noches de Poesía con Aymara Aymerich

Zu Galeria Fine Arts tiene el gusto de invitarlos a Noches de Poesía con la escritora Aymara Aymerich

Sábado, 24 de Abril, 8pm

Zu Galeria Fine Arts
2248 SW 8th Street
Miami, Fl 33135
786-443-5872


Aymara Aymerich (Ciudad de La Habana, 1976). Poeta, narradora y periodista. Textos suyos han aparecido en varias antologías y publicaciones seriadas en Cuba, Latinoamérica y Europa. Entre otros, ha recibido los premios Calendario de Narrativa (1998) y David de Poesía (1999). En 2001 fue Ganadora Absoluta del Premio Internacional de Poesía Nosside Caribe. Ha publicado los poemarios in útero (Ediciones Unión, 2000) y El Cabaret de La Existencia (Letras Cubanas, 2003), así como los libros de cuento Deseos líquidos (Casa Editora Abril, 2000, en coautoría con Elvira Rodríguez Puerto) y Todas las mujeres se desnudan (Ediciones Unión, 2008). En colaboración con el escritor Edel Morales, presentó el catálogo de nuevos poetas cubanos Cuerpo sobre cuerpo sobre cuerpo (Letras Cubanas, 2000) y junto al pintor Moisés Finalé realizó el bolsilibro de viñetas Apuntes de teléfono (Ediciones Artecubano, 2005).Su obra ha sido traducida al inglés, el italiano y el sueco.


Foto de Joaquin Estrada-Montalvan

Photos from Literary Nights Series

This past April 6, we were honored to have with us cuban poet, Jorge Enrique Pacheco-Gonzalez, who was visiting from Seattle, Washington, and who presented his book Under the Light of my Blood, which he read in Spanish, while Ambar Meneses read in English.
Poet Elena Tamargo presented Jorge Enrique with anecdotes of their meeting, and a beautiful text written her.

Photos by Ivelisse Torres and Marta Ramos.