Viernes! Part Deux
Photo from BBC News
In keeping with our new (one week old) theme of something fun on Fridays, I wanted to post about this, the yearly poetry festival in Granada, Nicaragua. Poetry is akin to a religion in Nicaragua. This is a country whose national hero and native son, Rubén Darío, is a poet who spent much of his life outside of Nicaragua. The story of Darío is very interesting, if you have the time. He was publishing poetry at age 12 and teaching in El Salvador at age 14. He was extremely peripatetic, constantly moving around to Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, France and Spain. Here are some sample poems of his in English. Modern day Nicaraguan poets like Gioconda Belli and Ernesto Cardenal are also seen as national heroes by many Nicaraguans.
