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Guillermo Parra

@venepoetics.bsky.social
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🇻🇪 🇺🇸 Poet & translator. Clearwater, FL

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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Johnny Marr’s Guitars www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Andrew O’Hagan | Johnny Marr’s Guitars
The Smiths kicked off the Scottish leg of their Meat is Murder tour at the Magnum Leisure Centre in Irvine New Town on...
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are cut magnolia, Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of gold Fill full the sides in rows, and our wine Is rich for a thousand cups.” (Li Bai, tr. Ezra Pound)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sunday night Gulf
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My English translation of a poem by José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Venezuela, 1890-1930), “La verdad” from his 1929 book Las Formas del Fuego, is featured this week at The Arts Fuse. artsfuse.org/332647/weekl...
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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse
This week's poem is José Antonio Ramos Sucre's "The Truth"
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A review of the new Venezuelan film “Lost Chapters” by Ena Alvarado in The New Yorker. One of the film’s protagonists is her father Ignacio Alvarado, who used to run the excellent second-hand bookstore Libroria, in Las Mercedes, Caracas. I bought several books there during visits in the 2000s.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Birdwatching in Old Clearwater Bay.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
AH WAR Allen Ginsberg Ah War bigness addiction Alchemized thru meta-industrial Labor-Intensive permanent tree Crop protein energy system recycling Urban Wastes in Meditative Egoless non Theistic Space Lisner Auditorium Monday, March 21, 1994, 8:00 P.M.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Gulf of Mexico gold tonight in Old Clearwater Bay.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Good 5-mile hike in Thonotosassa this afternoon.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Happy birthday to the poet Rafael Cadenas, who turns 96 today in Caracas. Two of his poems in my English translation, from Typo magazine (2013). www.typomag.com/issue18/cade...
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TYPO 18: RAFAEL CADENAS
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
There’s a new, 52nd printing of the Penguin paperback of Pynchon’s Vineland (1990). One Battle After Another has got me wanting to reread this novel.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Colder weather & yesterday’s rain brought a deeper afterglow to the Gulf.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Walking in the holy forest this afternoon.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Pavement II (poem draft)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There are few albums as perfect as Meat is Murder (1985). I first heard it when I was at boarding school outside Boston in 1986, and the opening track “The Headmaster Ritual” felt oddly specific to my 15-year-old life at the time. “Mid-week on the playing fields…”
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I wonder who made this trail in Flatwoods Forest in Thonotosassa?
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Selfie w/ a book my great grandfather published in 1931,T.R. Ybarra’s biography Bolívar: The Passionate Warrior (New York: Ives Washburn Publisher), a talisman in my library. Ives Washburn published 2 other books by Ybarra.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Afterglow clouds like a Steal Your Face lightning bolt tonight.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In 2016 Noemi Press published my English translation of the Venezuelan poet José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890-1930). I’m grateful the book is still in print. www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
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Selected Works: Expanded Edition by José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Trans. Guillermo Parra) | Noemi Press
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A bridge from 1931 in Old Southeast St Pete yesterday
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Looking across the Bay at Tampa from St. Pete
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Gabriel Payares writes a list of 9 recommended books by contemporary Venezuelan writers in English translation. He includes my English translation of Eleonora Requena’s collection of poetry, Textos por fuera / Outside Texts (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). 🇻🇪
electricliterature.com
9 Venezuelan Books That Imagine Home from Abroad - Electric Literature
These diaspora authors capture the intimate history and complex reality of Venezuela
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Rest in peace, Bob Weir.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Poem draft fragment of “Grateful Dead,” the third one I’ve written w/ that title, about my years seeing them play between 1988-1994.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Intracoastal Gulf vibrations
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The Smiths (poem draft, 12/15/25)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
After reading the first chapter of Paul Auster’s Moon Palace, I’m already in love with this book.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hello 55 and a full moon tonight. Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I finished reading Laura van den Berg’s novel State of Paradise (2024). I especially enjoyed its focus on the I-4 corridor of Florida as part of the novel’s landscape.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Saturday night afterglow on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Last night on Stevenson Creek.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Now I’m at chapter 61 of Moby-Dick. I took a 🚲 ride to Old Clearwater Bay tonight. Melville makes you notice the sea more closely.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My rereading of Moby Dick continues. What a vastly entertaining & philosophically profound novel it is, Melville is like a high art soap opera writer, each chapter pulling you into the next.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Gulf of Mexico moonrise on Indian Rocks Beach tonight.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cambridge Common (poem draft, 4/17/25)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Philip Lamantia (1967/2025)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In the rail yards on tonight’s ride 🚲
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Mourning doves connect me to old memories of hearing them as a kid in the trees in Massachusetts.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Afterglow sentinels
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Trump is a Russian asset.
theguardian.com
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It’s my patriotic duty to denounce traitors like Trump and Musk, who are working for Putin.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The line can sustain itself in the wind- swept landscape of hills & valleys where are we on this map? I followed the route along the wood Place holders in Could one be put together from memory, the Gulf air
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sunday night downtown
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Stephen Spender (1933)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A poem by Patricia Guzmán (Caracas, 1960-2025), in my English translation. R.I.P.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
MAGA is a fascist coup d’état.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Patricia Guzmán (1960-2025)
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Saturdays are for the Grateful Dead.
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Guillermo Parra @venepoetics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
You can see Venus tonight over the Gulf of Mexico, here in Clearwater.
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