The Fernando Alcalá Library hosts the best young poetry in Spanish at the Marpoética Festival

The Marpoética Festival in Marbella opens its space dedicated to younger poetry. The series 'Palabra del mar', coordinated by writer Carla Nyman, invites from today until April 3rd at the Fernando Alcalá Central Library facilities representatives of a new generation of authors. Poets under 35 years old will share with the public—mainly high school students from Marbella—their work and their reflections on culture and contemporary thought.

The sessions, scheduled to start at 12:00 PM, kicked off with the intervention of Berta Gómez and Andrea Gumes, both cultural journalists and hosts of the literary podcast 'Demasiadas Mujeres'. Accompanied by about thirty students from Río Verde and Bahía Marbella institutes, the journalists have reproduced live the usual format of their program to reflect on why it is so difficult for young people to approach poetry.

"In school, they teach us poetry poorly, the entry is complex, they force you to understand it in uppercase, as if it had only one interpretation. We understand poetry as an exam," Gumes pointed out. "If we learn to let ourselves go, maybe we can meet poetry, approach it from play and emotion, not difficulty," her colleague Gómez indicated.

The journalists shared with the students some poems by young contemporary poets whose themes and languages are closer to their reality in a session where even some students were encouraged to read their own verses.

'Palabra del mar' will continue this Tuesday, April 1st at the Fernando Alcalá Central Library with poets Ania Otaola and Álvaro Cruzado. Wednesday, April 2nd will be the turn of Eduard Olesti and Óscar García Sierra. Lola Tórtola and Carmen Rotger will close this series on Thursday, April 3rd.

Along with this series, the eighth edition of Marpoética will continue all this week, until April 5th, with multiple activities related to the poetic and literary world. Thus, this evening, starting at 7:00 PM, the recital of Argentine poet Daniel Freidemberg will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving.

Juan Mayorga, the main protagonist this Tuesday

For his part, the day of Tuesday, April 1st will have a special focus at Marpoética, that of playwright, theater director, and member of the RAE, Juan Mayorga. The also 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts winner, will share with the audience of the Marbella City Theater, starting at 7:00 PM, a dramatized reading of 'La gran cacería'. A show in which the author himself will voice and embody this work premiered for the first time in 2023.

It's night and an insomniac man finds himself in the middle of the sea, from there he reflects, doubts, openly asks the audience: what things keep him awake? This marks the beginning of the piece that once again highlights the beauty and philosophical depth of Mayorga's texts.

After the dramatized reading, the playwright will participate at 8:00 PM in a conversation on the same stage of the Marbella City Theater alongside journalist Antonio Lucas. A unique opportunity to get to know the work and thoughts of one of the most important theatrical authors in our country.