Port-Ingles: Learn Portuguese of the Azores In 100,000 Easy Lessons: 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Visiting Relatives

My eldest cousin saves Massa Suvada for me and my mother.

Even when we cannot make it to Thanksgiving.

She will let us come

And visit and pick up leftovers

And inquire about 2 jugs of wine from the grape arbor this summer.

Perfect grapes,

My uncle would be proud.

And she will serve us soup,

Like her mother made,

And her mother,

And the lemon,

Never quite enough

Until it is the perfect amount

The lemon reminds us of

All the meals we cannot remember.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Heard that there was an earthquake in Sao Miguel.

A week after the one in San Fransisco,
and a week later, one in Alaska.

What is it about the tectonic plates that shifts and settles,
and eventually returns to the Azores?

The center of the world.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Mare de Agosto!!

In Santa Maria, they have just finished up the concert/festival of the "Tide of August". This is th 27th year and is turning out to be one of the "oldest" Portuguese music festivals.

http://portuguese-american-journal.com/santa-maria-27th-mare-de-agosto-musical-festival-azores/

Think of it as SM's answer to Burning Man.

See you there next year!!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

UMass Dartmouth/Portuguese in Americas Series!!

Just a side note, if you are looking for some Portuguese in the Americas Literature, here is a link for 22 (TWENTY TWO!!!!) titles:
http://www.portstudies.umassd.edu/pas/

AND
If you happen to be a writer, here is all the info for submission guidelines for your PortIngles novella!!
http://www.portstudies.umassd.edu/pas/managing.htm

Managing Editor

Submission Guidelines
Authors wishing to submit a proposal for consideration should follow the guidelines below. Additional questions should be addressed to the Managing Editor in an email with the subject line, “Manuscript Submission.” We do not respond to submission queries by phone.
We welcome submission to the Portuguese in the Americas Series of original works of creative writing as well as proposals in the social sciences, history and literary criticism. We welcome submission to the Adamastor Series of proposals for translations of classic and other important works of literature from the Portuguese language and essays on Lusophone literatures and cultures.

A Proposal should include:

a brief prospectus and description of the manuscript
a comparison of the proposed book to other books on the topic
schedule for completion of the manuscript
expected length in words of the manuscript (including notes and bibliography)
an annotated table of contents
introduction and sample chapter(s)
curriculum vitae

Complete manuscripts should not be sent unless specifically invited by the editors. Consideration of proposals may take up to three months. Proposals may be sent to outside specialists for review. Editors may decline to pursue a proposal.
Before any proposal or complete manuscript can be accepted for publication, it must be evaluated by the editors, reviewed by outside readers, and approved by the editorial board.

Mario Pereira
Managing Editor
mpereira6@umassd.edu

Please mail proposals to:

Tagus Press
Center for Portuguese Studies & Culture
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Rd
North Dartmouth, MA 02747

(Individual articles ought to be submitted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies. For submission guidelines to Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, please visit: www.portstudies.umassd.edu/plcs/)