Marcos de la Fuente is a poet and performer. His writing is influenced by Julio Cortázar, León Felipe, Allen Ginsberg, and C.P Cavafy; his thoughts, by Herman Hesse, Milan Kundera, Erich Fromm and Friedrich Nietzsche; and his rhythm by the Doors, Massive Attack, John Coltrane and Gil Scott-Heron.
His published works include Las Partículas Brillantes (2015), a collection of poems designed by the artist Vanesa Álvarez; Isla Futura (2017), spoken word and electronic music, with the band Pólvora; La Nueva Sensibilidad (2018), a manifesto on the meaning of poetry; and the anthology PoetryFighters (2022). Marcos has presented the Lorca2018 project, a revision of Poet in New York, with guitarist Aldo Pérez and, in 2019, he was included in Panorama and Luna sobre los Rascacielos, made up of Spanish poets in New York. The following year he collaborated with textile artist María Romero with poems on hand-dyed garments, with the collection of poems A Tintureira do Hudson.
In 2021 came The Empathy Muscle with musician Alec Ekvall, and an invitation to read at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum, and at the Poetry Project Marathon. In 2023, he collaborated with the collective TheVERSEverse to bring poetry to the Metaverse and the Blockchain, and also presented Águilas en las manos, with pianist Ricardo Gallo. And 2024 found Marcos presenting As Cordas Invisíbeis, poems in the Galician language set to music by the pianist Aída Saco-Beiroa. He also participated in the official tribute to Allen Ginsberg.
He has been director of the Kerouac Festival in Vigo since 2010, in New York since 2016, and in Mexico City since 2019. Marcos is responsible for the monthly Se Buscan Poetas at the Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan.
September 20 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Beat Generation: Live Poetry Walking Tour