The magazine Ofélia: A Nova Voz dos Jovens Poetas Portugueses (Ofélia: The New Voice of Young Portuguese Poets) will be presented at the Tomaz Borba Viveira Municipal Library on October 18, at 6:30 p.m., in the presence of the magazine’s coordinator, Simone de Carvalho Martins. The writer Pedro Paulo Câmara will give the presentation.
This is an event organized by the writer from Lagoa, Júlio Tavares Oliveira, with the support of the Lagoa City Council. The aim is to promote Ofélia magazine, young poets, national poetry, and its main talents in the magazine in question.
Simone Martins was born in Almada in 1998. She has an “English Literature and Philosophy” degree from the University of Hertfordshire, England, and an MA in “Text Editing” from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon. She is passionate about books, the word, communication, poetry, development, and human complexity. She worked with children aged 19 and, at 26, decided to dedicate herself entirely to her project “Ofélia em Poesia,” which went from dream to reality, to give poets an accessible voice and publish them.
Revista Ofélia has become a poetic publishing house, with a digital presence and a weekly podcast featuring several poets. It has also become a venue for poetic and experiential poetry events, always seeking to open up space for new ways of experiencing and developing poetry. Through poetry workshops, it has also been transformed into a project for children and young people.

in Diário da Lagoa, Clife Botelho-director

Translated to English as a community outreach program from the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI) and the Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department (MCLL) as part of Bruma Publication and ADMA (Azores-Diaspora Media Alliance) at California State University, Fresno, PBBI thanks the Luso-American Education Foundation for sponsoring FILAMENTOS.