Letters

The Bar of the Post

Eduardo Ruiz Sosa: To write is, above all, to listen

Alberto Valle
"Writing is not as solitary and individual an activity as people usually believe. Writing is above all listening, invoking, having an awareness of what one is doing. A writer has to have that clear, much more than the petulance of finding one's own voice. Knowing how to listen." Leaning against...
The Bar of the Post

Brugués Mitjans: Beyond Evasion

Alberto Valle
"There are two Brugués Mitjans. On one hand, the lawyer, extremely serious, disciplined, almost an auditor who faces immense amounts of work. On the other, the Brugués who writes, who tries to escape the rigidity of legal language and give free rein to the stories she imagines." It gives the...
Letters

Poesia i +: a summer of more poetry and more beauty

"More poetry, please." With this motto, the Poesia i + festival once again unfolds for another summer to reclaim the power of poetry aloud and its ability to connect with other disciplines. Since its origins in Caldes d'Estrac in 2003, the festival has spread through the towns of Maresme, consolidating...