(From Mariola to the Mediterranean)

The two authors have created an imaginary dialogue between the poet Vicent Andrés Estellés and the essayist Joan Fuster, using poems by the former and texts by the latter related to the landscape they travel through together.

My friend Empar Tormo was one of the organizers.

I had the satisfaction of knowing that they used  a poem by the great poet LOLA RIDGE, belonging to the book The Ghetto and Other Poems, translated by me into Catalan with the title El gueto i altres poemes and publisehd by the Publications Service of the University of Valencia this year.

The image accompanying the poem is also mine:

PALESTINE poem:

Texts titled WEAVING FOR RESISTANCE:

IMAGES OF THE EVENT:

The Municipal Twinning Association from Carcaixent (AMAC) has celebrated its tenth anniversary of twinning with Eeklo (Belgian municipality).
Visitors from different European countries have been welcomed by families in Carcaixent and have made interesting visits to the surrounding area.
It’s been a pretty intense four days.
I had Katharina Pfeiffer as a guest.

Some of the members with authorities.

The First Literary Conference of Writers in Fortaleny from La Ribera, a central region of Valencia, was held on Saturday, September 27.
There was a large turnout, not only from writers for the area but also from other regions of Valencia.

David Pagès i Cassú, a writer among many other things, wrote the book “Què t’ha ensenyat la vida? (202 Veus) ((What Does Life Teach You? (202 Voices) )) (2019, Curbet Edicions), which consisted of interviews with 202 people. One of whom was me.
Yesterday, Sunday, he wrote me the following:
«Priest Benet Galí, from the Parish of Sant Narcís in Girona, transcribes each week in the of the Parish Sheet one of the answers from the book “Què t’ha ensenyat la vida? (202 Veus)”, which I had the pleasure of coordinating. This week he transcribed yours».
So I’m bringing it as News of the Week.

(THE GHETTO AND OTHER POEMS)

For the first time in Catalan, the translation of one of the fundamental poetry collections by Lola Ridge (Ireland, 1873 – United States, 1941), the great writer and anarchist, Marxist and feminist activist.
In addition to the long poem "The Ghetto", which portrays the lives of Jewish immigrants living on the Lower East Side of New York, there are essential poems such as the tragic "Lullaby" and the terrible "Frank Little at Calvary".
His poetry presents rich political, civil, urban, mystical and ecological nuances.
There are illustrations made by myself for each of the poems.

Index
Introduction
The Ghetto
Manhattan Lights
Labor
Accidentals

My friend Mari Carme Arnau, a poet among many other things, asked me for two poems so that an acquaintance of hers could add music and images to one of them and upload it to YouTube.
This has been the result:https://youtu.be/_DfQNKtE4O0

The Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua celebrates the Maria Beneyto Year (2025) by publishing an unpublished novel of hers: Al limit de l’absurd.
Carmen Manuel, professor of North American Literature at the University of Valencia, was the coordinator.
I have done the illustrations.

The coordinators thus revive a celebration that was started by Isabel Marcillas and Lluís Alpera and that lasted until the poet's death in 2018.
Following a request from some poets to revive it, the time has come, and in memory of Lluís Alpera, we decided to name the event after him.
The culmination will be the publication of a collective book of poems by all the attending poets.

One hundred and fourteen poets in Catalan and Spanish participate in this anthology in solidarity with the victims of DANA, especially those in the book sector.
I collaborate with the poem “Diàleg amb l’aflicció” (Dialogue with Grief).
It has been published by Onada Edicions.

News in the LEVANTE newspaper about the poetry collection https://www.levante-emv.com/morvedre/2025/05/20/cien-versos-antologia-poesia-libro-autores-solidaridad-dana-afectados-poetas-valenciano-castellano-publicacion-antoni-gomez-vicent-penya-117599952.html

Thanks to the invaluable work of ANTONIO UREÑA and the international launch by the Colombian newspaper Panorama Cultural, the 2025 Edition of the magazine TIEMPO DE POESÍA was released on April 23.

My contributions have been the cover of the magazine and the poems “A Particular Goodbye in Your Gaze” and “Note After the Departure.”

This issue is dedicated to the poet Ángel González.

Article by Antonio Ureña about Ángel González https://panoramacultural.com.co/literatura/10618/angel-gonzalez-o-la-poesia-de-la-honestidad

Colombian Newspaper “Panorama Cultural” https://panoramacultural.com.co/literatura/10631/tiempo-de-poesia-2025-un-encuentro-brillante-para-las-letras-de-las-dos-orillas

Copy https://online.fliphtml5.com/wwger/ppvn/#p=1

On Tuesday, April 15, I was interviewed live, at 8 pm, by those responsible for the ATENEU DEMOCRÀTIC DE CARCAIXENT: Anna Oliver I Borràs and Ferran Dalmau I Rovira.

Here you have the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/-Rlu0Gxu7_4?si=uNLWVKePMafC7HcF