“Poetry crosses the earth alone, / supports its voice in the pain of the world and nothing asks / even words.
Eugenio Montejo
Recently poetry visited the city of Valera, just celebrating International Book Day, on April 23 of this year 2025. Promoted by the Ateneo de Valera and the free chair “Mario Briceño Iragorry”. Both organizations chaired by two excellent ladies in the city of Mrs. Mercedes Díaz, Marlene Briceño and Libertad León González.
Lyric is the maximum expression of literary genres, even expressed in antiquity by Plato himself in his poetic manifesto. On this occasion, we started with a poetry, which defines the poetry of our great poet winner of the Romance Lyrics Award in Guadalajara Mexico (2004) Eugenio Montejo.
Trujillo is poetry, this has been demonstrated by the poets who have crowned the national Literature Award since its birth from 1947. We remember: José Ramón Heredia, Ramón Palomares, Francisco Pérez Perdomo, Ana Enriqueta Terán and Pedro Pablo Paredes.
First he began with the baptism of the poems of Doña Aleida Núñez de Colmenares, with “The stored treasures.” Presented by Prof. Libertad León González. Where he made a reference of the lyric from the universal, until he went down to our space. Because that is poetry, reminded us of great universal poets and making us travel through our paths to the passage of poetry, without a doubt a well -achieved presentation. “We cannot forget/ our homeland Venezuela/ the one that saw us born/ under the moon with the stars,” said Núñez de C.
And the morning began as Genesis, to travel for creation with Blanca Reixach, with his poetry we toured the time and space to the rhythm of his lyrics, a true composition that invites the imaginary, to invent and create the recited of the poet.
Valeria Ospino, is a young poet who despite her young age has traveled a long way of poetry, on several occasions we have encountered to hear and enjoy her creation, because she is from a poet with autonomy over the letters and her imaginary, to leave us a great component of imagination.
Susana Quintini, Susana friend of a lifetime, Susana above all is a great poet, although she did not realize. Susana when she opens her mouth musicalize and that is poetry. She has not realized her status as creator in the letters, for her madness she has not let her land on her poetry, in the style of Quijote, because she for her native Valera is a Quijote.
Víctor Solís, above all reciter things, transported us through universality, starting with our great José Antonio Ramos Sucre, born in Cumaná, known as the Venezuelan Greece, descendant of Antonio José de Sucre, also the cradle of Andrés Eloy Blanco. Victor has his own poetry, it is one of our young figures just like Valeria, they can highly stand out in Trujillana literature with national repercussion.
Professor Dalis Valera, refreshed the memory with the poetic work of Don Mario Briceño Iragroury, she is already an outstanding student of Don Mario’s work the author of “The betrayal of the best”. Don Mario although he is not considered as a poet. But he has a writing with musical rhythms from essay and history, much of his prose is built in narrative texts. He made us a recitation of Don Mario, of his poems, who are in his memoirs.
Josefina Da Costa Gómez, from the distance through the virtual world, was present, with people, with his words printed in air demonstrating that thought and words are impossible to cage. His poetry encourages us to look at the universe, faith, hope, strength of freedom, because we are always free, demonstrates by thought and poetry. To complete this lyrical harmony, because in the background the musical harmony was present, with Marcos Abreu the four and William Solís in the violin. They even started with the musical work of Maestro Antonio Carrillo “how a star cries.”
The Valera Athenaeum becomes great in adversity and now more with his daughter the “Free Cathedra Mario Briceño Iragborry”. Which understands that cultural expressions are especially in the men and women who build peoples. Remember Thales of Miletus, long before Socrates and Jesus Christ and says: “Man is a change agent.” In his insistence he makes me memory of San Pedro in the second letter that tells us: “Gold is purified in the fire.”
The highlight is the town, which when his Athenaeum invites him, that is, his spell, because that is the Valera Athenaeum. He meets him to make it bigger. Understand that time and history are waiting for us.
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