Clothesline Poetry Contest 2023

With the poem Respuesta exacta (Exact Answer), Miguel Mariano Piñero Martínez -from Las Tunas-, won the Clothesline Poetry Contest 2023, an award announced on the last day of the Catauro de la Décima (Décima Basket); one of the most liked spaces of the Cucalambeana Fiesta, which from June 28 to July 2 brought together cultivators of traditions from various Cuban territories and eight nations.

Carlos Escalona in Memoriam Tunes Contest 2023

The “Carlos Escalona Labrada in Memoriam” is among the contests that have left traces within the Cucalambean Fiesta, which in this second edition had the participation of nine young women from different Cuban provinces.

Cucalambeana Fiesta 2023 in Las Tunas

The Cucalambeana Fiesta leaves in the images a trace of what it was, the faces that starred it, and the traditions that have the best safeguard in its makers.

Participants of the "Justo Vega 2023" with the improviser child David Miguel Cardosa
Participants of the "Justo Vega 2023" with the improviser child David Miguel Cardosa

The décima is in the air, flies among the bamboo leaves that shelter El Cornito and even seems to perch on the chest, or the hat of the participants in the Justo Vega national contest for improvisers, those who sing from the most varied creations.

Poe Cid, winner of the Cucalambé Award 2023

I had previously read something by Jorge García Prieto (Havana, Cuba, 1979), better known as Poe Cid. But I didn't have to read much to know myself before a complete poet. His thematic acuity, those metaphors coming from who knows where, the play on words- synesthesia- sane-fluid madness, so many things, reaffirmed to me that I was before an author of necessary research.