A poem by Manuel Riv

I wanna be a poet (by Forges)

Cartoon by Forges. Source of the imagen

Character 1: "You must learn to read and to write because if not you´ll never be able to sign mortgages, precarious contract, release documents...

Character 2: Yes, but besides that I want to learn as soon as possible because I wanna be a poet.

Antonio Fraguas de Pablo (Forges), born in Madrid in 1942, is one of the best Spanish cartoonists. He is the inventor of Spanish neologisms as "gensanta, stupendo, bocata, firulillo, esborcio...", based in colloquial lenguage.  

To know more about him, you can visit his web. 

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Walt Whitman, in the Eye of the Storm

Poet Walt Whtiman. Source of the imagen

In Donde la eternidad envejece (Destino, 2012), a plentiful memory book, César Antonio Molina glosses hundreds of writers figure, one of them Walt Whitman, who -there´s no exception in literary world- was criticized by his contemporaries. Many of them didn´t forgive him the sensuality of Leaves of Grass, and somebody claimed with some humour that such book lacked vine leaves.

At the beginning, Whitman had the support of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who saw a great poet in the young and sensualist bearded man.