Home / Hogar
by Nidia Hernández
Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s annual Miami Book Fair preview. These video poems are each read by a woman-identifying writer who is attending Miami Book Fair 2024. Enjoy this taste of poetry, sponsored by Miami Book Fair and SWWIM. We look forward to seeing you at the Fair!
Appearance at Miami Book Fair 2024: Nidia Hernández, Saturday, 11/23/2024, 4:30 pm, Room 8303
Transcript of poem A clock pointed toward the place where an incandescent ring touched the shadows it was my room floating in the night my room defending me from myself my dark room where I hide the pyramids I dream it was the space of a second to be everywhere to reach you to touch you to hear your voice it was unreality my true room inmense unreality my only home * Un reloj apuntaba hacia el lugar donde un aro incandescente tocaba las sombras era mi cuarto que flotaba en la noche mi cuarto defendiéndome de mí misma mi cuarto oscuro donde escondo las pirámides que sueño era mi cuarto de segundo para estar en todas partes para llegar a ti para tocarte para oír tu voz era la irrealidad mi verdadero cuarto la inmensa irrealidad mi único hogar
Venezuelan native Nidia Hernández has been living in the US since 2018. She is a poet, translator of Portuguese poetry, editor, broadcaster, and radio producer. Her editorial project lamajadesnuda.com--the digital backup of a radio program (also called La Maja Desnuda) from the last 35 years and a collection of the best poets from around the world--won the 2011 world Summit Awards. Currently, she is broadcasting the program through UPV Radio 102.5 FM Spain. In Boston, Nidia is an associate editor of ArrowsmithPress, and through them also curates Poesiaudio, a collection of Latin American poetry in English and Spanish, in which one can hear the voices of Latin American poets themselves, and belongs to the Board of Directors of The New England Poetry Club. Hernández is the winner of the 2021 Sundara Ramaswamy Prize for her editorial work on The Land of Mild Light, an anthology by Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, which includes translations by Robert Pinsky, Sophie Cabot Black, Carolyn Forché, Shara McCallum, and Forrest Gander. Nidia Hernández was awarded a 2021 Certificate of Recognition “for her exemplary leadership in support of English language training for immigrants in the city of Boston.” In 2022, she published a new anthology, The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets, for which she which won the 2023 Mass Poetry Community Award. The Farewell Light (Arrowsmith Press, 2024) is her most recent collection of poems.
"Home" / "Hogar" appears in The Farewell Light (Arrowsmith Press, 2024). Permission granted by the poet.
12/12 / Poetry Reading and Conversation with visiting poet-in-residence Nicole Cooley + local writer Caroline Cabrera / The Gallery at The Betsy-South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / Live and Live-Streamed on Instagram Live/Facebook Live at @swwimmiami / 7-8:30 pm EST / Free
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