Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 – Poetry

Poetry reading-workshop for women, taking the text by the poet Maggie Smith as a first inspiration to share and create poems together. It is not necessary to have written poetry before, but if participants have written any before, it is suggested they take some to the event. The workshop is moderated by the educator Elisa Guerra, shortlisted for the 2023 Loewe Poetry Prize. Her book Ellas, Afasia won the poetry prize awarded by the magazine Punto de Partida, published by UNAM (Mexico). Guerra runs Las Primeras Letras, a literary podcast-workshop for children.

The poet, essayist, and translator Dinu Flamand (Romania) is an enthusiast of César Vallejo’s work, which he has translated and on which he will speak, in relation to his own poetry, with Victoria Guerrero Peirano. Flamand has been involved in cultural content creation since his student years, later working in various newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses in Bucharest. He lived in exile in Paris during the last years of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, reconnecting with the literature of his country after the regime ended. He has won the National Mihai Eminescu Prize, and his literary work, especially in poetry and literary criticism, is extensive, with books in translation published in several countries.