Tag: Portland

• what I would have said at the OBA ceremony

  As preparation for the Oregon Book Awards ceremony, finalists are asked to prepare a few words, under two minutes, to say just in case. I gave my words a lot of thought and, though I did not win, I feel like sharing these words with you here below. * OBA (non)acceptance speech I first moved […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 23, 2019

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  blog, creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, Literary Arts, literature, Oregon, Oregon Book Awards, poetry, Portland, reading, the friday influence, writing

• * translation 3/3 on the friday influence

  (from Proverbios y Cantares – Antonio Machado) * XXXII. Oh faith of meditation! Oh faith after deep thought! When a heart returns to earth, the human cup overflows, and the sea swells. *** This week, The Friday Influence presents the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado. I first ran across the above poem […]

  José Angel Araguz

  July 6, 2012

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  Antonio Machado, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, God, Goethe, John Keats, Jose Angel Araguz, language, literature, Phil Levine, Poesias Completas, poetry, Portland, Powells, Spain, the sea, translation, writing