The Cartagenian’s children, grandchildren, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, friends, admirers, and poets gathered at the Externado to pay tribute to the late writer Gustavo Ibarra Merlano (q.e.p.d.).
The Cultural Decanatura participates in the National Library Poetry Cycle “Making Noise,” held on the first Thursday of every month, through December.
Complimentary copies are distributed to subscribers of “El Malpensante” Magazine, public libraries, culture houses, schools, universities, penitentiaries, and governmental and non-governmental organizations. The Collection is now found in the libraries of Stanford, Harvard, and Yale universities, among others.
The “Un libro por centavos” Collection begins 2019 with the publication of poetry book number 153, “El beso” (The Kiss), an anthology by Jorge Valencia Jaramillo, where heartbreak, and irony, or love and black humor are unequivocally linked to the total reinvention of the poem, as stated by José Luis Díaz-Granados.