Fui tu querer (I Was Your Desire) reached my hands by following an intimate, warm path, built more on affection than on protocol. Margarita Polo sent it to me through a cousin, as someone passes along a cherished secret, and that gesture closed a circle that had begun long before.

As a prelude to the 13th Nicolás Guillén International Festival and Colloquium, the newspaper Adelante shares from today snapshots of photojournalists who focused here on the National Poet of Cuba.

Personal objects that belonged to Cuba’s National Poet Nicolas Guillen were donated on Thursday to the Ignacio Agramonte Provincial Museum in Camaguey where they will be better conserved for the enjoyment of future generations.