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The English Professor

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  By Eva Feld Not a decade had passed by since that exciting date in which some partisans of the Democratic party had failed to achieve their dream of proclaiming a pig for president at the Chicago Democratic Convention, when the English teacher dragged his apathy to the pulpit where he used to get even more bored than usual while teaching the rooky college students the rules of how to write properly in English. Fed up by the monotony of endlessly repeating the properties of certain adjectives or the appropriate use of   verbs, tired of reviewing the same mistakes over and over and terribly nostalgic of his own youth, his mind wandered often going back to the old days when his life was an open promise. He decided one day to reincarnate into the young revolutionary that he used to be at a time when was able to break the rules to the point of even championing a porcine cause.   So with a grin on his face he turned his back on his perplexed students, he slam...

Adios a Juan Ruiz de Torres

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    Juan Ruiz de Torres entrega en Madrid a Teódulo López Meléndez medalla y diploma de la Asociación Prometeo de Poesía   Con gran pesar. Hoy 25 de abril llegó la noticia de su muerte. Nuestro abrazo a su viuda la novelista Ángela Reyes y a sus tres hijos.   Juan Ruiz de Torres Juan Ruiz de Torres Nacimiento 13 de julio   de   1931   (82 años)   Madrid ,   España Nacionalidad   Español Género Poesía, narrativa, ensayo, crítica Cónyuge Ángela Reyes Descendencia Elena María Juan Alberto Ioanna Juan Ruiz de Torres   ( Madrid ,   13 de julio   de   1931 ) fue y es un   poeta ,   narrador   y ensayista   español . Después de una carrera como profesor e ingeniero principalmente, se dedica a la promoción cultural desde 1980, en la Asociación Prometeo de Poesía, y a la creación en poesía, narrativa y ensayo literario. Tiene tres hijos, y está casado con la escritora ...