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Cordelia Elizondo – The instant

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Cordelia Elizondo – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The instant (El instante) by Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986). Where will be the centuries, where the dream of swords that the Tartars dreamed of, where the strong walls that they leveled, where the Tree of Adam and the other Log? The present is […]

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Andrea Daems – Bait

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Andrea Daems – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: Bait (Aas) by Cees Nooteboom. Poetry can never be about me, nor I about poetry. I am alone, the poem is alone, and the rest is of worms. I stood by the streets where the words live, books, letters, messages, and waited. I always waited. […]

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Aparajita Srivastava – Books ( किताबें – गुलज़ार )

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Aparajita Srivastava – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: Books ( किताबें – गुलज़ार ) [Language: mixture of Hindi and Urdu] by Gulzar. Books peep through the closed glass doors of the cupboard With much longing and desire, they stare through For months now, we don’t meet Those evenings that would be spent […]

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Diego Díaz – The bullfight and death

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Diego Díaz – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The bullfight and death (La cogida y la muerte) by Federico García Lorca (1935). At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five o’clock in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A shovel of lime was already prepared […]

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Víctor Redondo – The bird in the nest

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Víctor Redondo – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The bird in the nest (El ave y el nido) by Salomé Ureña (1850 – 1897). Why do you startle, simple bird, and fix your gaze upon me? I have no intention, little one, of taking your nest away from here. Here, in the hollow […]

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Flor Pierina – Fear

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Flor Pierina – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: Fear (Miedo) by Andres Eloy Blanco (1896 – 1955). The shadow of a doubt on me rises when the lullaby of your voice reaches my ear; afraid to meet you; but in fear there is so much passion, it seems to me that I have […]

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Hamed AlHabsi – The Winds of Time (excerpt)

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Hamed AlHabsi – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The Winds of Time (Upepo wa Waka) by Euphrase Kezilahabi (1974). One day I stood on a small hill looking down at the lake on the day of storms. I watched the waves rising and falling. Swelling swirling, churning and spuming foam like mad […]

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Pietro Zimmitti – The Infinity

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Pietro Zimmitti – Master in Management student. IE Business School. Reading: The Infinity (L´Infinito) by Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837). This lonely hill has always been dear to me And this hedge, which bars the horizon’s view, I think of them often, both the longings they renew While seated here, and when, the end […]

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Victoria Gimeno – Arrest of Antoñito el Camborio on the Road to Seville

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Victoria Gimeno – Director – Institutional Relations in Admissions & Enrollment. IE University. Reading: Arrest of Antoñito el Camborio on the Road to Seville (Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el Camino de Sevilla) by Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936). Antonio Torres Heredia, son and grandson of Camborios, a willow wand in his […]

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Federico Opperti – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Federico Opperti – LLB degree – IE Law School. IE University. Reading: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (1874 – 1963). Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. […]

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