As of today, another 12 poems by Cuban poet laureate Nancy Morejón enrich the sound heritage of the U.S. Library of Congress.
Morejon, winner of the 2001 National Literature Award, visiting this capital as part of a tour that took her to the University of Missouri-Columbia in Missouri, San Francisco, California, Chicago, Illinois, and will conclude in New York, was received Tuesday morning at the prestigious institution.
The renowned intellectual, one of the most important voices of Cuban and Latin American poetry today, recorded with her voice the verses of her poems such as Abril, Temprano, Ana Mendieta or those dedicated to George Floyd, an African American murdered in Minnesota by a white policeman in May 2020.
Since July 2, 1979, the Library's Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape has had a compilation of 21 poems in Morejón's voice, to which these 12 will now be added.
At that time he read writings from his books Richard brought his flute, Parajes de una época, Octubre imprescindible and Amor, ciudad atribuida.
During her stay in Washington, DC, the translator, journalist and writer was honored by the Cuban Embassy in the United States and participated in a reading of her inspirations together with the Afro-American poet E.Ethelbert Miller.
The day before, she shared her work at the island's diplomatic headquarters with Cuban residents, representatives of the cultural sector, the diplomatic corps, cultural promoters, religious leaders, journalists, businessmen, among others, who gathered to listen to one of the essential figures in the panorama of Cuban culture.
She reiterated to all of them her passion for having been born, lived and developed her literary creation in Cuba.
Morejon's (Havana, August 7, 1944) program continues tonight at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.