Although this weblog is primarily about women who were alive during the First World War, I am nevertheless trying to include all countries of the world. So far, the only poet I have found from The Dominican Republic is Salomé Ureña - with grateful thanks to Joel Uribe for the suggestion. Joel is from:
Women Poets International
"I'm all I can be, a woman, a poetess"
Woman' Scream (International Poetry Festival)
http://womanscream.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/womenpoetsinternational
Français:Femme Poètes International
"Je suis tout que je peux être, une femme, une poète"
Festival International de Poésie "Cri de Femme"http://festivalcridefemme.blogspot.com
which looks absolutely amazing - definitely worth a good peruse.
As Salomé is particularly inspirational, I have taken the liberty of including her here:
Women Poets International
"I'm all I can be, a woman, a poetess"
Woman' Scream (International Poetry Festival)
http://womanscream.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/womenpoetsinternational
Français:Femme Poètes International
"Je suis tout que je peux être, une femme, une poète"
Festival International de Poésie "Cri de Femme"http://festivalcridefemme.blogspot.com
which looks absolutely amazing - definitely worth a good peruse.
As Salomé is particularly inspirational, I have taken the liberty of including her here:
SALOME UREÑA (1850 – 1897) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Salomé Ureña de
Henriquez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 21st
October 1850. Her Father – Nicolás
Ureña de Mondoze - was a writer who taught his daughter about French and Spanish classical
literature. Her Mother was
Gregoria Diaz.
Salomé published
her first anthology when she was seventeen and soon made a name for herself as
a writer. In 1870, she married Dr.
Francisco Henriquez y Carvajal, a writer and politician.
In 1881,
encouraged by her husband, Salomé started an establishment for the higher
education of young women in the Dominican Republic – “Instituto de
Señoritas”. Five years
later, the first six female teachers graduated – which was an achievement at
that time.
Salomé died from
TB on 6th March 1897 at the age of 47. She is remembered and revered as an educator and one of the
most important poets of the nineteenth century and the first female poet of the
Dominican Republic to write about subjects outside the domestic issues usually
reserved for women writers.
In the
introduction to her complete anthology published in 1950, Joaquín Balaguer
described Salomé as “a great poet who embodied the hope and aspirations of the
newly consolidated Republic”.
MARTING, DIiane E.
Ed., “Spanish American Women Writers:
A Bio-biographical Source Book” (Greenwood Press, Connecticut 1990).
For examples of Salomé Ureña's poems, please see the excellent website:
http://www.los-poetas.com/n/salo1.htm
