Abe Dunovits
‘Sometimes melodies come in dreams, and I wake up singing … Spontaneity is very important. Something spontaneous is truthful, real, fresh and human.’
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Juan Garrido-Salgado
‘The poet’s challenge is to not turn into a pure activist, but to recreate the language of reality.’
Meet the team: Silvia Rojas
Silvia is one of our interviewers and is helping us with social media. She’s an emerging writer who loves poetry.
Meet the team: César Albarrán-Torres
César is our poetry translator and one of our interviewers. He thinks Puentes should have an issue that’s all about good food and recipes.
Meet the team: Fernanda Fain-Binda
Fernanda is Puentes’ proofreader and voice of reason. She reminds us to keep things short and to the point, and to celebrate and promote everything we do regularly. She challenges us and helps us make Puentes better all the time.
Seven questions with Manuel Iris
‘Poetry is an act of love, and just like love, it is also a human right. ‘
Interview with Christian Ravello
Musician, poet and actor Christian Ravello talks about childhood memories, a life-changing trip to Chile, rock latino and the film Here Out West.
Interview with Suzanne Hermanoczki
Growing up, the country was an idea in my head, but not the one I knew when I went there. It was like sort of looking at a city in a strange new way, yet understanding things such as the way people talk, act and behave.
Diego Ramírez
In my work, I prefer to locate my sensibilities as contextual, something related to culture, time, and place rather than identity. I am interested in how ideas get corrupted, how certain figures corrode with time.
Erika Deery
‘Gender equity does not start at university or when you graduate; it starts when you are born and we need books to help us understand this.’