Gracias por todo/Thank you for everything --My last post as Writer-in-residence for the CHPL

From January to December 2023, I had the honor of serving as the Writer-in-Residence for the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, which has been a source of great pride for me. I am also the fist Hispanic to hold such position. Representing this network of 41 libraries in different parts of the city, in which more than 800,000 people are offered not only access to books but to many digital resources, as well as workshops, courses, classes, and even help with homework for children and adolescents, it has been a job full of satisfaction. Libraries, especially public libraries, are one of the few spaces in contemporary society that a person can inhabit without being asked to pay for any product or believing in something in particular. Libraries are, I have said before, sanctuaries of human dignity.

This is my last post in the Blog of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.

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Conversation with Fiona Sampson in Inside the writer's head

 As you know, I only have a few more days as Writer-in-residence for the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library. I wanted to close my tenure with a conversation with the British poet, my dear friend Fiona Sampson. We discuss her musical background, how poetry challenges us to read reality in a different way, the secret coherence that often arises in a poem, and many other things.

Please, come and listen to her poetic thinking, her intelligence, her wisdom. This episode is a gift to anyone who loves art, music, and poetry.

For those who don't know her, Fiona Sampson is a leading British poet and writer. Published in thirty-eight languages, she has published twenty-nine books. National honors include an MBE for services to literature, the Newdigate and Cholmondeley prizes, numerous awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, Society of Authors, Poetry Book Society and Arts and Humanities Research Council, among many, many other honors...