ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is special about the tours when there are children in the group?
Marjorie Kanter is a writer who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has lived in Spain since 1986, and is also familiar with other cultures, having spent time in Morocco and the Dominican Republic as well. She is the author of two books of short literary poem-like pieces in English: I Displace the Air as I Walk (2004) and Small Talk (2016), and a bilingual book in English and Spanish called Field Notes/Notas de Campo (2023). All of them are based on life experience. Her projects include: ‘The Saddle Stitch Notebooks’, ‘The Bagged Stories’, ‘Im/politeness: 100 days on Twitter’ for the London Word Festival and a series of word art installations for La Caixa in Lleida, Spain. She has given creativity writing workshops for professional writers and the general public, including children, in the United States, Spain, Morocco, Germany and Ireland, as well as online. Kanter is particularly interested in the pragmatics of communication, ethnography and the use of writing for facilitating thinking, relation-making, awareness building, understanding, training and problem resolution.
We have spoken with her about her writing and other projects and you can listen to those programs by clicking on the links below, and you can see more of what she does by going to her website.
This week we are speaking with Marjorie about her Literary Walking Tours. These are storytelling walking tours of Madrid´s Barrio de las Letras that she has developed over the years. The tours are expressly designed for each group, and along the way there are stops where Marjorie reads texts in front of the settings that inspired them.
You can contact Marjorie here: margiekanter@gmail.com
You can listen to our previous programs with Marjorie here:
I Displace the Air as I Walk (2006)
