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Dea Suluashvili – Poem by Galaktion Tabidze

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Dea Suluashvili – BBA graduate 2020. IE University. Reading: Poem with no title by Galaktion Tabidze (1892 – 1959). The world is worn out like a coin, Now life is empty and quite dark, Don’t be surprised if at this point I’m grateful for a little luck. I could have had a soul, as […]

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Alvaro Jodar – The Laughing Heart

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Alvaro Jodar – Double degree BBA & LLB – IE University. . Reading: The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski, (1920 – 1994). Your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it […]

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Vanesa Allen Duque – Big Friendly Giant (excerpt)

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Vanesa Allen Duque – Assistant in Dean´s Office. IE Business School. Reading: Big Friendly Giant (excerpt) by Roald Dahl, (1982). At the top of the ladde, Mr Tibbs, balancing like an acrobat, poured the BFG´s coffee and placed the enormous plate before him. On the plate there were eight eggs, twelve sausages, sixteen rashes of […]

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Soraya Polanco – You deserve a love who loves you when you’re uncombed

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Soraya Polanco Palomar – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Project (VR for Student Affairs) IE Gender Equality Office. IE University. Reading: You deserve a love who loves you when you’re uncombed (Mereces un amor que te quiera despeinada) by Frida Khalo (1907 – 1954) You deserve a love who loves you when you’re uncombed, Even […]

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Susana Torres – Carmen 85 by Catullus

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Susana Torres – Humanities Professor. IE School of Global & Paublic Affairs. Reading: Carmen 85 by Catullus (87 a. C. – 57 a. C.) I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured. — Ōdī et amō. Quārē id […]

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Javier Peñalver Santorio – The Shadow of the Wind (excerpt)

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Javier Peñalver Santorio – Library Assistant. IE Library, Marketing & Communications. IE University. Reading: The Shadow of the Wind – La Sombra del Viento (excerpt) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón , (2001) I remember hearing a comment from a regular customer at my father’s bookshop that few things define us as readers as much as the […]

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Amanda Kelly – First Memory

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Amanda Kelly – Adjunct professor. School of Human Sciences and Technology. IE University. Reading: First Memory by Louise Glück from the book Ararat, (1990). Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was— for what I was: from the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought […]

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Ruth Palmer – Instructions on Not Giving Up

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Ruth Palmer – Professor in Communication and Digital Media. IE University. Reading: Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 15, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets. More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry […]

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Roberto Arribas – The Freedom of feeling (La libertad de sentir)

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Roberto Arribas – Associate Director of Communications. IE University. Reading: The Freedom of feeling (La libertad de sentir) by Roberto Arribas , (2020) I’ve never known greater freedom than that I enjoyed as a child. Back then we children used to meet up on hot august evenings to ride our bicycles. Sometimes, we’d imagine we […]

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Angelica Kulyashova – A night, a street … (Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека…)

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Angelica Kulyashova – Executive MBA, 2016. IE Business School. Reading: A night, a street … (Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека…) by Alexander Blok, (October 10, 1912) A night, a street, a lamp, a drugstore, A meaningless and dismal light. A quarter century outpours — It’s all the same. No chance of flight. You’d die and rise […]

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