{"id":27321,"date":"2024-04-17T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/?p=27321"},"modified":"2024-11-01T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T13:25:13","slug":"inaugural-celebration-of-portuguese-poetry-culture-and-fall-river-poets-set-for-april-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/inaugural-celebration-of-portuguese-poetry-culture-and-fall-river-poets-set-for-april-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural celebration of Portuguese poetry, culture and Fall River poets set for April 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldnews.com\/staff\/3755416001\/lurdes-c-da-silva\/\">Lurdes C. da Silva<\/a>, O Jornal<br>Published April 17, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FALL RIVER \u2013 Despite having two poetry books published and a statue erected in his honor in his native city of Fall River, the late&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldnews.com\/story\/news\/2016\/01\/26\/195-things-de-medeiros-poet\/32702083007\/\">Jo\u00e3o Teixeira de Medeiros<\/a>&nbsp;remains a bit of a hidden gem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His poems primarily expressed the feelings of the emigrants and were often drawn on his own unique experience that saw him migrating twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1901, he lived around Pine Street for nine years before moving to Pedreira do Nordeste in S\u00e3o Miguel, Azores, with his family. In 1930, he moved back to the Spindle City. Although he had returned to his homeland, he always felt and lived like an immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With only a formal 3rd grade education, he used simple language in his writings, but his poems were so unique that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/\">Brown University<\/a>\u00a0published a book of his verse. He passed away in 1995, leaving two titles: \u201cDo Tempo e de Mim\u201d and \u201cIlha em Terra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:36% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Medeiros-Monument_2_Photo-Credit-Patti-Rego-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27325 size-large\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>On April 27, the first annual\u00a0\u2018Poesia: A Celebration of Portuguese Poetry, Culture, &amp; Fall River Poets\u2019\u00a0will not only highlight his poetry, but also the significant contributions that other Portuguese have made throughout history to local, national, and international arts and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea was to raise the visibility and engagement with Portuguese poetry and culture, because I don\u2019t think that people would ordinarily associate the Portuguese with all their massive contributions in world literature, which are vast,\u201d said Patti Rego, the executive director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/\">Viva Fall River<\/a>, which will co-present the event with Newport Poetry and the City of Fall River.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the full article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/ojornal\/2024\/04\/17\/inaugural-celebration-of-poesia-portuguese-poetry-culture-and-fall-river-poets-set-for-april-27\/73343830007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having two poetry books published and a statue erected in his honor in his native city of Fall River, the late\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Teixeira de Medeiros\u00a0remains a bit of a hidden gem. On April 27, the first annual\u00a0\u2018Poesia: A Celebration of Portuguese Poetry, Culture, &#038; Fall River Poets\u2019\u00a0will not only highlight his poetry, but also the significant contributions that other Portuguese have made throughout history to local, national, and international arts and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35239,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27321\/revisions\/35239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}