Americas Society launched the latest issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas entitled “Cityscapes of Rio and Bahia,” and held a discussion panel featuring a group of contemporary writers and scholars of Brazilian literature.
In this opening event of the Cityscapes of Rio and Bahia, Brazil symposium, a group of contemporary Brazilian writers, translators, and scholars of Brazilian literature discussed currents in literature from the city of Salvador (Bahia).
Review 81 - Bob Marley and His Legacy, guest-edited by Lorna Goodison (From Harvey River) and Christopher Winks (Queens Colleges, CUNY), is comprised of a creative section featuring texts by associates of Bob Marley as well as writers who have written on and/or been influenced by him, including Jacqueline Bishop, Chris Blackwell, Kwame Dawes, Christopher John Farley, Herbie Miller, Shara McCallum, and Klive Walker.
"Chilean culture is steeped in poetry; poetry has become a life-blood of that country, ingrained in the bedrock as it were, over time," writes Americas Society's Daniel Shapiro for CNN. Two of the miners rescued from Chile's San José mine were identified as poets.
Review 80 (Mexico: The 21st Century Issue) is comprised of articles by leading scholars and writers Christopher Domínguez, Viviane Mahieux, John Mraz, and Juan Villoro, on key figures and iconoclasts in Mexican literature
Review 79 showcases articles by leading colonial literature scholars on various aspects of the Inca Garcilaso’s life and work.
Review 78 is comprised of an academic section containing articles by leading scholars on U.S. Latino writing and culture, and a creative section of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews by/with Latino writers of Chilean, Cuban, Dominican, Guatemalan, Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage.