CARTAGENA THINKS: Lara Lopez in conversation with Angel Haro about rectifying the Canon: María Cegarra, The voice of the miner. Roman Theatre Museum.

POETRY IN THOUGHT

LARA LÓPEZ IN CONVERSATION WITH ÁNGEL HARO ABOUT RECTIFYING THE CANON: MARÍA CEGARRA, LA VOZ MINERAL

Conversation with Ángel Haro, multidisciplinary artist and set designer.

One of the forgotten voices of the Silver Age is that of María Cegarra. Poet, the first woman to graduate in Chemical Sciences in Spain, in 1946. Always linked to her homeland, La Unión, where she not only developed her teaching career for four decades, but also participated as an active politician, becoming a councilor.

Involved in the creation of the Festival del Cante de las Minas, her poetic voice was uniquely linked to the landscape of the Sierra Minera, whose rocks and minerals she not only analyzed as a scientist, she also deciphered and gave meaning to from her chosen poetic exile, comparable to the exile of authors such as María Zambrano.

Lara López. Writer, graduate in Philosophy. Associated with RTVE since 1987, directing and/or presenting musical, cultural and informative programmes on RNE and TVE (La Mandrágora or Carta Blanca). From 2008 to 2012 she was director of Radio 3. Currently, she directs and presents Derivas (music and thought on Radio Clásica) and, since 1996, Músicas Posibles on RNE, a station where she is also a scriptwriter for the programme Documentos RNE.

. She has published the short novel Óxido (Xordica, 2004) and the poetry books Insectos (Papeles Mínimos, 2017), Derivas (Prensas Universitarias Zaragoza, 2020), Antología de bolsillo (Liliputienses, 2021) and Medusas (López et al., Márgenes, 2023). Honorary collaborator of the Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, she teaches modules in the Poetry Master's Degree at the School of Writers and in the Master's Degree in Music Industry and Sound Studies (MIMES) at the Carlos III University.