Poems of José Emilio Pacheco

Next date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM

On May 10th 2022, the Cervantes Institute, headquartered in Chicago, inaugurated a library named after Mexican poet, José Emilio Pacheco. In 2001, The Berlin International Literature Festival hailed Pacheco "as one of the most important Latin American poets." In honor of Pacheco, who won the Cervantes Prize in 2009, the Cervantes Institute commissioned the Spanish singer and composer, Tomás Lozano, to set to music a handful of poems from Pacheco's extensive poetic career and sing them during the library's inauguration. Now Tomás Lozano shares Pacheco's poetry with the world by signing his poems. His concerts are accompanied by declaimer Rima Montoya, who recites each poem which she translated into English, before Lozano sings it in its original language. His musical accompaniment includes Daniel Cueto, Peruvian flutist, and Julia Shanon, American violinist. A twelve minute mini documentary titled, "Presencia Eterna, José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014)", created by Diagrama Producciones SL, is screened with English subtitles as an introduction to the concert.

 

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Tomás Lozano is a singer, musician, composer, researcher, and independent writer with a multifaceted profile. Based in the United States since 1993, he is known for his eclectic musicality. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with many artists and groups, in addition to leading his own projects that range from traditional ballads to setting the works of legendary poets to music—a body of work through which he restores the lost oral tradition to the great texts of literature.

As a researcher of Hispanic folklore and history, his book Cantemos al alba: Origins of Songs, Sounds, and Liturgical Dramas of Hispanic New Mexico (UNM Press, 2007) stands out. Other works are the soundtrack for the documentary Tu boca en los cielos (Diagrama Producciones, 2018), which aired on TV2. The Instituto Cervantes commission him in 2021 to provide voice and music for the work of Mexican poet José Emilio Pacheco (2009 Cervantes Prize winner).

 

 

Rima Montoya is a transformation facilitator, Level 2 QHHT ® practitioner, and neuro-somatic hypnotic coach, specializing in the exploration of internal states, quantum soul inquiry, and kenosis as a pathway to personal liberation. Montoya likes to write, read, take walks in nature and find beauty in the small miracles of life.

 

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Mesa Public Library, 2400 Central Ave, Los Alamos NM, Suburb 1, View Map