Divanize Carbonieri is a university professor, poet and short story writer. She has published nine books, including Passagem estreita [Narrow passage] (short stories, 2019), A ossatura do rinoceronte [The rhino’s skeleton] (poetry, 2020), and Nojo [Disgust] (short stories, 2020). She was shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize (Brazil) in 2020.
Adriana Lisboa (b.1970) has degrees in music and literature. Among other books, she has published Symphony in White, which won the Jose Saramago Award, and Hanoi, chosen as the book of the year by the Independent, as well as two poetry collections. Her poems and stories have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Granta, Asymptote and The Indian Quarterly.
She was born in São Paulo, but lived in the Northeast and South of Brazil, leaving Florianópolis in 2000 for bolder flights to England and the USA, with the objective of improving the English language, living fantastic experiences. In poetry, her main focus is to work in a multimiditic and contemporary language (concretism) a revolutionary (ontological) psychology search in the lived reality (self-fiction) and in the Cultural exchanges a young and feminine audience, in transcendence.
Isabel Furini is an Argentine writer, poet and educator. He has lived in Brazil since 1980. He is a columnist for the newspaper Paraná Imprensa. He published 35 books in Brazil, among them: “Os Corvos de Van Gogh” and “,,, e outros silêncios”; he participated in an anthology in Buenos Aires. She is an Ambassador of the Word of the César Egido Serrano Foundation (Spain). His poems were awarded in Brazil, Spain and Portugal.
Adriane Garcia (Belo Horizonte, 1973) is a Brazilian poet, writer, theater educator and actress. He graduated in History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and specialized in Art Education at UEMG. Her first book, "Fables for adults to lose sleep", won the Paraná Prize for Literature in 2013, in the poetry category. In 2017, she was the curator of the Belo Horizonte International Literary Festival.
I saw Bonnie and Clyde
Dying
So many times
I started to
Believe
Only on
Bank robberies
As beautiful as Bonnie
And Clyde
Loving each other
Under the bursts
Was dreaming on
Movies
As if you
Robbed me
A hollow
Love is this
Adrenaline
That ends up in one of the
Getaways.
Translated by Samantha Batista
The color white reflects the sun
And sends the heat away
From Earth
If Earth warms up
The ice melts
And Earth does warm up
The seaweed that is born under the ice
Feeds the krill
Wihich feeds the whale
If there's no ice
There's no krill
And there's no whale
I know it's obvious
But I already spoke of love
And you didn't even listen.
Translated by Beta Guedes Cummins
Patrícia Rehder Galvão, known by her pseudonym Pagu (June 9, 1910 – December 12, 1962) was a Brazilian writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who had a large role in the Brazilian Modernist movement. Pagu was also politically active, being associated to the Brazilian Communist Party during the 1930 decade.
Deborah Brennand was born in Engenho da Lagoa do Ramo, municipality of Nazaré da Mata, state of Pernambuco. She married Francisco Brennand, one of the most internationally famous Brazilian plastic artists. She dedicated herself to poetry and cultural life in the 1960s and 1970s. Deborah's poetry shows a world full of contradictions.
