CAMAGÜEY.- The branch of the Nicolás Guillén Foundation in Camagüey will dedicate its main events of the year to poetry and women in its desire to support the cultural environment of the city that is the cradle of Cuban literature.

It is already calling for the second edition of the Sóngoro Cosongo International Poetry Meeting, scheduled for July 13th to 16th, in which authors from Mexico, Spain and the United States have already shown interest in participating.

“Art schools generate an artistic movement. Also when you create core events for the city you contribute and make Camagüey more visible. With the poetry festival we support the proposal of the Cradle of Cuban Literature,” Yoandra Santana, president of the branch, told Adelante Digital.

For November, El Correo de las Damas will develop, an event identified as the magazine directed by Domitila García Domérico de Coronado (1847-1937), the first Cuban typographer and one of the Camagüey's delegates to the first national women's congress in Havana in 1923.

“It will be for the presentation of works and the exchange about Cuban women in the face of their challenges,” said Yoandra Santana shortly before relating the meeting and the event to the anniversary program of the Guillén Foundation.

Without ignoring the antecedent in the core of intellectuals led by Manuel Villabella in the nineties of the 20th century to promote the life and work of the National Poet of Cuba, it went deeper in the last five years after the reconstitution of the branch on August 7th, 2019.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez