"LETTERS FROM BRAZIL VI" is a return to reporting of the final trips to Brazil from 1988 to 2005. The author recounts research, conferences, book launchings and travel, all in journalistic form. Emphasis is given to the small moments, inspired by the chronicles of Luís Fernando Veríssimo, as well as the major events. It is the small events that may illicit most interest and enthusiasm.
1988. Recife, Remembering the "Movimento Regionalista de 1926 de Gilberto Freyre."
1989, João Pessoa. Invited Speaker at the Conference of the UFEPB in Paraiba.
1990. Meeting Átila de Almeida, Perusing his "Cordel" Collection, Air Pass to Iguaçu and the Falls.
1990. "Lançamento" and Book Signing for "Cuíca de Santo Amaro - Poeta Repórter da Bahia." Salvador
1996. Rio de Janeiro, Reunion with Former Student Roberto Froelich and New Experiences in São Paulo. "História do Brasil em Cordel" at the USP Press, the Northeastern Cultural Center and Rádio Atual in Sao Paulo.
2000 The BRASA Conference in Recife. Reunion with Ariano Suassuna, the Inspired Talk.
2001. "Cem Anos de Cordel" at the SESC in São Paulo. Invited speaker. Meeting Audálio Dantas and Joseph Luyten and the Current Poets of "Cordel." Amazing local and national publicity due to Curator Dantas.
2002. Meeting Plínio Martins of Ateliê Editora and the Plan for "Retrato do Brasil em Cordel."
2005. The Conference in João Pessoa. Honoring Néuma Fechine Borges. Meeting the Missing Poets and Scholars. Nostalgia from the past and plans for the future.
