CentroCentro inaugurates a new cycle dedicated to literature, The Wild Palms

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On November 26, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., in the CentroCentro Auditorium, with free registration CentroCentro inaugurates a new cycle dedicated to literature, The Wild Palms - Directed by Txema Martín and Enrique Juncosa, the cycle will have four annual meetings with international authors of all literary manifestations - November 26 will feature the Spanish writers Félix de Azúa and Álvaro Cortina, the Jamaican resident in the United States Ishion Hutchinson, the Basque singer and songwriter Tulsa and the Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener - This first session is part of the EÑE festival Madrid, November 16, 2022 On November 26, CentroCentro, a space of the Madrid City Council's Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, will begin a new cycle within its public program of activities dedicated to literature, Wild Palms.

Conceived and co-directed by Txema Martín and Enrique Juncosa, it will present four major annual activities. Wild Palms was born with the aim of becoming a meeting point for readers and authors, and founding a new space for reflection on new trends in prose and poetry. This cycle intends to act as a prescriber of new literatures, so that the most relevant authors of its programming serve as a claim to open the doors to new discoveries of writers little translated into Spanish, whose relevance transcends the dawn of novelty or limitation. geographical. In each of these meetings, with free admission, relevant authors from all manifestations of literature will meet: narrative, mainly, but also essays, poetry or theater. These authors will be interviewed by other representatives of written culture in all its aspects. Each appointment will also include a recital that will propose a dialogue between music and performative poetry in order to offer a variety of unprecedented and transversal points of view regarding literary work. It is also a program that is especially sensitive to the LGTBIQ+ reality, which deals with innovative proposals and the latest trends in a cross-border and universal way. The authorship of the drawing that illustrates the contents of this first year of Wild Palms corresponds to the Balearic artist Miquel Barceló.

First meet In the first event, on November 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., included in the EÑE Festival, the novelist Álvaro Cortina will present the narrator, philosopher and poet Félix de Azúa; An academic from the RAE, an essential intellectual in culture and thought in our country, he will review his intense life and creative itinerary, and his lucid and ironic vision of the reality that lies in wait for us, and will share with the attendees some of the unpublished poems of the. Ishion Hutchinson, a Jamaican poet who lives in the United States, where he teaches, will also participate. With only two published books, he has received excellent reviews and a large number of relevant awards, such as the one awarded by the National Circle of Critics or the PEN for poetry. which has made him one of the most outstanding young American poets at the moment. Ishion will share some of the poems from his third book to be published soon.

Wild Palms will also focus on different aspects in which the written word expands its influence and, in particular, music, programming a recital at each appointment to close the act. In this first edition, the Basque singer and songwriter Miren Iza (Tulsa) and the Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener will combine music and words with the show We could have been more tender, a dialogue between the two authors designed especially for this occasion.

Admission is free, with prior reservation of locations through https://www.centrocentro.org/programa-publico/las-palmeras-salvajes