einaidea poesia

*Tongue on fire

light waxes and wanes
cycles repeat
light creates space
seeing the changing light

fire as a hypnotic entity
like a bridge
reading as a counter-spell
it binds us
voices disarm bodies
dissolve egos
establishing forces skin gestures
they come and go
a furious polyphony
the impossibility of homogeneity
listening as a transformative practice
it shifts us from the center
it opens us up
it places us in present
space-body-time
the present is a mystery

–Renata Gelosi

einaidea poesia will be curated by Renata Gelosi for a second iteration to gather around the fire just days before the winter solstice. This time, we will be joined by the voices of the invited poets Luca Calderó, Victo Löwy, Júlia Sentís, and Annika Sunne. Between readings and pauses, through the ritual preparation of a meal and a shared language, we will, perhaps, sustain a warmth that will allow for the listening of the blaze, colletive sheltering, a burning wait: a tongue on fire*.

The gathering will take place at Eina Bosc from 5:30 pm to 8:30pm, fostering an exchange of alternating voices that will accompany the cooking and the poetic listening around the fire.

Participants:

Luca Calderó is an artist and researcher. The backbone of their practice is writing, which they understand as embodied and expanded, and which takes the form of performance, text, video, or installation. They are currently researching woundability—the body's capacity to wound itself—as a space for relating to the transcendent, which they call Somatomystics. They studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and are currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, supported by the Botín Foundation Art Grant 2025-2026.

Victo Löwy is a poet, performer, and graphic artist from the Argentinian Patagonia, based in Barcelona, ​​Spain. She is the author of the poetry collections HE GASTADO UNA FORTUNA EN SER EXTRANJERA (2023), winner of the 1st Francesca Bonnemaison Poetry Prize, and ABRÍ LA PUERTA Y YA EL MUNDO ERA OTRO: Poemas Vagabundos (2025). Her poems have been selected for various competitions and publications, such as the II Ars Magna City of Astorga Poetry Competition (2025). She has been awarded the Cant Serrat #1 Research Writing Residency Grant (2020) and the Auto-Stop residency at L’Automàtica (2023). She participated in artistic creation workshops such as Ex-citadas, espacio para el desborde at La Escocesa (2019), recited poems at readings such as After Eight, and co-created the debate and critical thinking series Colaboratorio (2022-2023). She facilitated creative workshops such as (IM)PERCEPTION (2022-2024) and Este pedazo de tierra es un poema (2024). She created the performance pieces Mimesis and Grieta Pinchuda as part of the Land Light festival in Teruel (2025). She participated in the performance piece Coreografías de la prohibición, created by Lucía Egaña Rojas at the Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica (2025). She is part of the artistic collective Frente Poético Ocupacional, with whom she creates performances and publications. She is currently writing her first novel.

Júlia Sentís (Barcelona, ​​1995) is interested in what moves tentatively and in reverse, that which leads us to recognize ourselves with/from other materialities, what sounds in language but not but perhaps, that which precipitates us into estrangement with eagerness and rumination. She investigates bent ways of doing from the intersections between movement, somatics, poetry, fabulist thought, and pedagogical and mediation practices. She is part of the collective Trémula, a stirrer of collective encounters on speculative somatics.

Annika Sunne (they/them), non-binary transsexual born in Mexico City. Their practice, driven by memory and emotion as creative engines, gives rise to sensitive landscapes where the intimate is transformed into abstract, living and mutating forms.

Poetry happens in space and bodies, we are all part of what is taking place. The gathering, the presence, the present. A space-time for the discovery of a "nos/otres" (us/others), to allow ourselves to be pierced by the environment and the word. What does naming move? To mention, and to mention again, so that repetition opens worlds in the body. To proceed, blindfolded, to listen, towards an encounter, without knowing too well what is about to happen.

On 14 May, led by artist, poet, and editor Renata Gelosi, einaidea poesia will be set adrift on the borders of the Collserola Natural Park. Approaching the walk as a "setting in space" of the poetic act, the encounter will be structured through guidelines and readings that will guide our wandering. The route will begin in Eina Bosc to continue towards the Carretera de las Aigües. During the itinerary, the voices of Fabricio Garcia Morales, Mel Mustefaga, Marta Nieto Postigo, Isabel Rabassa, and Renata herself will accompany the walk through its various pauses and activations.

Participants:

Fabricio Garcia Morales is born on 20 October, 1998, but he begins to exist on the first solstice of the twenty-first century due to his affiliation with the Catholic Church, which baptized him as the last son of La Paz (the 20th century is also the 21st). Of tanned skin after spending time in the sun, and a multicolor-leaning tan after long periods in the shade. He is of medium height. His facial features alternate between beast and angel. Registered with twenty-one names in the General Service of Personal Identification. Accused of inciting the government with crowds of just one unrecognizable person. 68 kilograms. He lost his innocence at the age of seven while assembling his first Molotov bomb, leading to the arrest of twenty children in Chasquipampa, Bolivia, but without a trace of the latter. He wrote his first poem about fire seven years before reaching the age of twenty-one, according to the law of 21 September, 1851. Those close to him confirm that he gives off a smell of gasoline, burning tires, and also the moment before rain.

Mel Mustefaga (Brasilia, 1986) is a poet and has lived in Barcelona for thirteen years. She has worked in performing arts management and has participated in recitals around the city for several years. She is interested in translation and the bridge between contemporary Brazilian and Iberian poetry. In 2022, she released a plaquette and published in online magazines such as Thalamus Magazine (Spain, 2024) and Ruído Manifesto (Brazil, 2025). In 2025, she will publish the poetry collection El Quinto Sueño, in a bilingual Portuguese-Spanish edition.

Marta Nieto Postigo (Barcelona, ​​1987) is an editor, sound artist, poet, and amateur viticulturist with interests that fractalize around narratives for a livable world, particularly inspired by ecofeminism and spiritual sovereignty. Her practice includes technologies such as poetry, soundscape, tarot, queer astrology, and performance. She directs and broadcasts the program Onda Ramera on the community radio station dublab.cat. She is an apprentice in biodynamic agriculture and tends 1.25 hectares of vineyards. She has collaborated on zines such as Bravas, Your Mouth Is A Guillotine, Los Archivos de Beauvoir, Nenazas, and Bulbasaur, among others. Her poetry has appeared in Escarnio Kaboom (Mancebía Postigo, 2017) and Voces Nuevas (Torremozas, 2021). Her next collection of poems, Lugares ambles, will be published in 2025 by Llamp Edicions.

Isabel Rabassa (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1992) studied Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology NYC, SVA (The School of Visual Arts), and The Art Student League. In 2021, she won the First Prize of the City of Barcelona International Art Prize from the Royal Artistic Circle. Her work has been exhibited at the Museo Municipal Barquisimeto Lara (2013), Yonkers Art Weekend in New York City (2015), Kulturprojekte - Art Week Berlin (2019), WAC LAB Poblenou Urban District (2020), AQD Projects (2020), Art Emergent Sabadell (2021), Kultur HOF Linz Austria (2022), and L’Estruch Fàbrica de Creació (2024).

Vivi Alfonsín is a writer and activist for migrant rights. Her literary work proposes a feminist critique of racism and the structures of coloniality. She is a teacher and a regular contributor to the press, and a member of the Naixem Cridant artistic team, where she develops a transdisciplinary artistic practice with female prisoners in penitentiary centers of Catalonia. She has published the novel Mundo Zurdo and other short narrative texts. She has been published in the anthology on sexual violence Mis palabras no callan (Inguz Editorial, Buenos Aires); Racismo en Cuba (Hypermedia); Monográfico Antirracismo (Pikara Magazine) and in the issur on the border control industry edited by tictac collective. At the end of 2024, she will complete the Km.0 residency at Centre Cívic Pere IV with her text High Cost Country, a piece that hybridizes theater and narratives on deindustrialization and police violence in Europe. In mid-2025, she will publish her second book, No Other Hell Awaits You, within Malpaso editorial’s collection, Salto de Página.

Samer Abu Hawwash is a Palestinian writer, translator and journalist, born in Lebanon. He graduated in Journalism in 1996 at the Lebanese University of Beirut, a city in which, since 1994, he has been dedicated to cultural journalism. Since 1991, he has published poetry and articles in Lebanese media and magazines. His first collection of poems, Life is Printed in New York (1997), has been followed by nine more collections of poetry, including Dario Jazz Berlin (2004) or Two trees on the Roof (2005). He is the author of five narrative works, including Valentine's Day (2005) or Felicidad, or Happiness or a series of explosions that shook the capital (2007). He participated in the anthology Beirut 39 in 2009, when the city was designated capital of the book by UNESCO. As a translator, he has specialized in American poetry: he has translated Langston Hughes, Louise Glück, Robert Bly or Charles Bukowski, among many others. Through Dar Kalima, he published, in 2008, an anthology of fifteen volumes of American poetry, which includes Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Charles Simic or Billy Collins. As a translator of narrative, he has translated into Arabic works such as On the road by Jack Kerouac, Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Buddha of the Suburbs, by Hanif Kureishi or the complete work of William Faulkner.

David Caño has published eight books of poetry and has won several prizes, including the Jocs Florals de Barcelona 2019, for his book Un cos preciós per destruir.  Through his constant presence on stage, either alone or with the musical group Ovidi4, he has experienced his most organic or corporal side with performances, and the most experimental one together with Gerard Altaió and his Nois Tutú. Da::Ma is his last project, a combination of electronics, noise and poetry—a visual and sound show that combines his voice with DJ Mauri's live session.

Neus Ballbé Miró specializes in electronic production and sound dramaturgy. She combines her musical studies with theater together with Txiki Berraondo, Manuel Lillos and Rosa Florido, among others. She studies the degree of Cinematographic Direction at the Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya. Some of her last jobs as an actress include Tirant lo Blanc by Joan Arqué; Bonobo by Josep Julièn; Nosaltres by Helena Tornero and Ricard Soler; Nico by Sandra Arpa, where she combines interpretation with music or some of her travels with Clowns without Borders. She has designed sound spaces for Diana Pla, Miss Cosa; Nicolàs Palma with Caché Sous la Peau making an immersive 360º installation; or Qui estigui lliure by Xavi Buxeda, among others.

Mireia Calafell is a poet. She has published Poètiques del cos (Amadeu Oller Prize 2006 and Anna Dodas Prize 2007 for the best book published by an unpublished author), Costures (Josep Maria López Picó Prize 2009). With Tantes mudes (Welcome Oliver Award 2013), she received the Golden Letter for the best book published in Catalan in 2014. Nosaltres, qui (2020) was awarded the Mallorca Poetry Prize (2019) and recognized by the AELC with the Josep prize Maria Llopart for the best collection of poems published in 2020. Recently, she received the Carles Orilla Award for the collection of poems Si una emergència (2024). She is a founding member of the cultural production company La Sullivan. She has been co-director of the Poesía y más Festival (2015-2016), and of Barcelona Poesia (2018-2021).

Blanca Llum Vidal is a writer and philologist. She has translated with Arnau Pons, War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras, and by the same author, she has translated Écrire. She has edited the poetry of Àngel Guimerà, the exile letters of Mercè Rodoreda to Anna Murià, the stories of Víctor Català, the Dos Catalunyes: jocfloralescos i charones by Àngel Carmona and, among others, the book that accompanied the exhibition Francesc Tosquelles and the Agnès Varda catalogue that was presented at the CCCB. She has taken care of the anthology of Maria Aurèlia Capmany's feminist essay, recited in all of Catalunya, in Ukraine, in Santiago de Chile and in Buenos Aires. She is currently a member of the jury for the Ricard Torrents Bertrana Essay Prize and in 2023 she was a jury for the Vicent Andrés Estellés Poetry Prize. She has published several collections of poems, and has written articles in the Cuaderno de El País, in the political and cultural newspaper El Temps and now regularly in Catorce.

Karima Ziali was born in Beni Sidel (Morocco) in 1986. At the age of three she moved with her family to Catalonia. She has lived with Riffian, Catalan and Spanish since she was very little. Once she graduated in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, ​​she moved to Valencia where she obtained a Master's Degree in Teacher Training. She dedicated herself to teaching while completing her Master's Degree in Anthropological Research. She currently lives in Granada where she works as a researcher at the Institute of Migration Studies and where she is developing her doctoral thesis. She writes for various media outlets (Ctxt, Jot Down). A prayer without God (Esdrújula, 2023) is his first fiction novel.

Sayed Raían is a DJ, producer and music collector from Haifa, Palestine, with a deep passion for jazz, rare grooves and experimental sounds. Sayed is a true musical treasure hunter, impeccably fusing rare and obscure records with modern influences. His sonic journeys break barriers and take listeners to unexplored musical territories.

*: «Hi ha tanta poesia i, tanmateix, res més estrany que un poema! D'aquí la profusió d'esbossos, estudis, fragments, tendències, ruïnes i materials poètics», apuntava Friedrich Schlegel en els seus quaderns d'universitat, ara fa més de dos-cents anys. En l'intent d'arribar al poema que voldríem escriure, el cos es sacseja, busca una nova posició des d'on fabular, s'enfronta als seus propis límits imaginatius. Molt sovint, els poemes no són res més que els rastres d'aquest accident amb el llenguatge; estelles i fragments, com diu Schlegel, que reclamen la condició d'obra autònoma. El color, l'accent i la tensió de cada imaginació genera un tipus diferent de material poètic. En aquesta lectura presentem set veus que treballen des de contextos i posicions singulars, de l'art sonor al teatre, de  la novel·la a l'acció. Set maneres d'imaginar el poema que vindrà.
Gabriel Ventura

Participants:

Mohamad Bitari (Damasc, 1990) és poeta, dramaturg, editor i periodista. Com a traductor i poeta, ha traduït obres de Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Miguel Hernández, del poeta xilè Thomas Cohen (en un llibre editat per Asmaa Azayza) i de Miquel Martí i Pol. Actualment, treballa en una antologia d'aquest darrer i en una altra de Maria Mercè Marçal. Com a editor independent, ha coordinat l'antologia poètica Jo soc vosaltres. Sis poetes de Síria, publicada per Godall Edicions, Pol·len Edicions i So de Pau; també ha participat en l'edició del llibre Palestina. Arte y resistencia en Nayi Al-Ali, publicat per Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo. Recentment, ha fundat Èter Edicions, on ha publicat les traduccions al català de La tragèdia d’en Saied Mattar, de Majd Kayyal; Si fossin nens suecs, d’Elisabeth Hultcrantz; i Panorama de mort i desolació, de Rasha Omran. També ha traduït a l'àrab una antologia teatral del dramaturg Josep Maria Miró. Com a dramaturg, ha treballat en els projectes Habibti Rja’l Al-Tajet, de Greg Kalleres (2012) i El dictador, d'Issam Mahfouz (2013), ambdós projectes presentats al Babel Theatre de Beirut i dirigits per Lina Abyad. Ha participat com a cocreador en els espectacles Sous la plage (2016) juntament amb Marc Villanueva i presentat a la Sala Beckett, el Festival Grec i el Frankfurter Lab 2016-2017; i en l'escriptura de Síndrome de Gel, amb Clàudia Cedó, dirigit per Xicu Masó i presentat al Teatre Lliure de Gràcia (2022).

Juana Dolores (El Prat de Llobregat, 1992) és actriu, dramaturga i directora d'escena. També vídeoartista i poeta. Ha publicat Bijuteria (56è premi de poesia catalana Amadeu Oller, ed. Galerada, 2020) i I SI UNA NACIÓ DESFILANT PER UNA CATIFA VERMELLA –rèquiem català– (Ed. Poncianes, 2023). En teatre ha escrit, dirigit i protagonitzat JUANA DOLORES, massa diva per a un moviment assembleari (2019) i HIT ME IF I'M PRETTY o la princesa moderna. En audiovisual ha realitzat LIMPIEZA (2020) i MISS UNIVERSO (2021).

Eduard Escoffet (Barcelona, 1979) ha presentat les seves propostes en centres i festivals com el Centre Pompidou, el Palais de Tokyo i la Fondation Cartier de París, el berlin poesiefestival, Bowery Poetry Club (Nova York), Centro Cultural São Paulo, Sónar Barcelona, Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Roma Poesia, Poetry Africa (Durban, Sud-àfrica) i Museo del Chopo (Ciutat de Mèxic), entre molts altres. Ha publicat els llibres de poesia Gaire (2012), El terra i el cel (2013, publicat el 2018 amb el títol de Suelo y cielo) i Menys i tot (2017), a banda del llibre d’artista Estramps amb Evru (2012) i el pòster-poema Plançó (2021), premi Carles Hac Mor. Amb la banda d’electrònica Bradien, amb la qual va col·laborar entre 2009 i 2016, va publicar els discos Pols (2012) i Escala (2015). Actualment és membre del grup Barba Corsini, amb el qual va publicar el 2021 el disc Un nou incendi. Entre d’altres projectes recents, és autor amb Gianluca Abbate del film Cos endins (Itàlia, 2019).  El 2005 va comissariar, amb Eugeni Bonet, el cicle de cinema Pròximament en aquesta pantalla sobre cinema lletrista al MACBA (2005). També ha comissariat, entre d’altres, les exposicions La xarxa al bosc. Joan Brossa i la poesia experimental, 1946-1980 a la Fundació Joan Brossa de Barcelona (2019) i Tom Johnson. Música ilustrada al Centro José Guerrero de Granada (2023-2024).

Maria Isern Ordeig és autora de dos llibres de poesia, Sostre de carn (Premi Francesc Garriga 2017, La Breu, AdiA, Cafè Central, Edicions del Buc) i Rusc (La Breu, 2023). L'un comença una expansió que l'altre empeny, jugant amb el taulell del primer i estavellant-lo en una ciutat nova, més o menys una colònia d'abelles. També és co-autora del vídeo-assaig Del peix, l'espina, estrenat al Bòlit (Girona) el 2023, que sorgeix de relligar la gana i el desig des de la perspectiva del cos anorèctic. A cavall de les universitats de Barcelona i Paris 8 –Vincennes-Saint Denis, ha escrit una tesi en Literatura comparada i Estudis de gènere i sexualitat que investiga la interacció entre els orificis i la visió en la percepció i la construcció del cos en literatura, cinema i novel·la gràfica contemporània. Alguns dels seus textos han estat traduïts al grec, al portuguès, a l'anglès i al castellà. 

Alicia Kopf nom artístic d'Imma Ávalos, és artista visual i escriptora. En la seva faceta d'artista va rebre el Premi GAC / DKV el 2013 com a millor exposició d'artista jove en galeria de l'any, per la seva primera exposició individual a la galeria Joan Prats de Barcelona. Va publicar el seu primer llibre de relats Maneres de (no) entrar a casa el 2011. La seva primera novel·la Germà de gel (Ed. Alpha Decay, 2016) ha rebut els premis Documenta 2015 i Llibreter 2016, així com el Premi Ojo Crítico de Radio Nacional de España i el Cálamo Otra Mirada el 2017 i el Premi Oksar del Gremi de Llibreries de Roma. Germà de gel ha estat traduïda a deu idiomes fins ara.

Ginebra Raventós és poeta i artista sonora que indaga en les possibilitats sonores i performatives de la poesia a través d'accions, recitals, composicions, publicacions i instal·lacions. En les seves peces desplega el seu univers poètic, on veu, acció, so, imatge, espai i text s'entremesclen en un tot indispensable. El 2021 va publicar el vinil Saturn darrere nostre: el glaç, el got, el buit, l'acte verge. Ha presentat peces a festivals, museus i fundacions de Catalunya, Berlín, París, Reykjavík, Londres, Lisboa, Budapest o Chicago.

Gabriel Ventura (Granollers, 1988) és poeta. Els seus últims llibres són W (2017), Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls (2020) i  La nit portuguesa (2021), crònica de rodatge de Liberté, pel·lícula d’Albert Serra. Els seus poemes s’han traduït a l’anglès, el castellà, el francès, el grec i el neerlandés. El seu treball sol partir de la poesia i des d'aquesta disciplina s'expandeix en moltes direccions: l'acció, l'ensenyament, la investigació, la traducció o el vídeo. Recentment ha filmat Els miracles del Mestre Cabestany (ARBAR, 2023), curtmetratge dirigit amb Rosa Tharrats. També es dedica a l’acció, amb obres com (-N-O-E-M-A-), L’ajudant o Passió i cartografia per a un incendi dels ulls, poema-deriva publicat pel MACBA el 2022. El seu darrer llibre de poemes, Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls, ha donat títol a una exposició col·lectiva al MACBA dedicada a l'escena local. Prèviament, el llibre es va presentar durant una performance de 24 hores a l'aparador de la llibreria Documenta. Les seves obres s'han presentat en institucions i festivals com MACBA, MNAC, Bòlit, Festival de Poesia de Barcelona, Poesia i +, Festival Veu o la Biennal de Venècia. Actualment treballa en un projecte per a Manifesta 15, juntament amb Rosa Tharrats, amb qui sol col·laborar habitualment. Ha rebut, entre d'altres, la beca Montserrat Roig, i des de 2019 és professor associat a BAU, Centre Universitari de Disseny de Barcelona.