Interview with Venezuelan Photographer Luis Brito

by Mariana Centeno.

Luis Brito and I shared…

Thanksgiving with accent

Being together, on a day like today, became a habit. The first day of Thanksgiving In the USA passed through my…

IF, but not Rudyard Kipling

Israel Centeno

I’m tired that everybody takes the Venezuelan tragedy as it were likewise another lousy stuff down there, where everything is exotic and fascinating as if we were made to live our life jolting and jumping from riots to turbit and romantic…

Let’s do a simple, humble and useful written exercise.

I have a proposal you all, let’s créate an Exquisite Corpe.

Iceland

Those who say that Venezuela is not socialism suffer of nostalgia for what should be true socialism, and that it never becomes in socialism…

The Philosophers III — A Pittsburghese Soap Opera

by Israel Centeno.

Clouds

Israel Centeno

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Just the southern seas, and how Robert Lois Stevenson decided to invent them,

maybe just absinthe and some episodes of Rimbaud’s youth,

Sunday’s short story

The Witness

By Israel Centeno

Translated by Valery Miles

Hence, you have rights
a passionate rights
an activist’s right to not be an activist.

Propaganda is censure.

Freedom cannot be conditioned by
who thinks freedom should be this freedom or should be that freedom but not your freedom.

Stages

I saw your smile in another woman
your lips 
your tongue
looking at her I remembered you,
you left me and I left you in that other stage.
That stage we share only in deeps wells 
But today
in this inset
It is you.