Macky Corbalán (19 June 1963 – 13 September 2014) was an Argentine poet and journalist. She was a member of the lesbian feminist group Fugitivas del Desierto and published the newsletter ''La Sociedad de las Extranas'' with her partner Valeria Flores.

Early life and education

Macky Corbalán was born on 19 June 1963, in Cutral Có,

Neuquén Province Neuquén () is a Provinces of Argentina, province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. It borders Mendoza Province to the north, Rio Negro Province to the southeast, and Chile to the west. It also me ...

. In the 1980s, she was invited to contribute to the Neuquén poetry anthology ''Voces a mano''. Soon after, she won the Raúl González Tuñón national prize for young poets alongside Raúl Mansilla. She earned a bachelor's degree in social work.

Career

Corbalán worked as a journalist and was on the editorial staff of ''Coirón'' magazine towards the end of the

military dictatorship A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which Power (social and political), power is held by one or more military officers. Military dictatorships are led by either a single military dictator, known as a Polit ...

. She was a co-founder of the group Poesía en Trámite in the late 1980s. Her first collection of poetry, ''La pasajera de arena'', was published in 1992. She developed her own poetic voice and came to be called "one of the most original voices south of the

Colorado River The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...

". Corbalán was active with the lesbian feminist group Fugitivas del Desierto. Between 2004 and 2007, she published the monthly lesbian feminist newsletter ''La Sociedad de las Extranas'' with her partner, activist Valeria Flores. The title is based on an excerpt from

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Vir ...

: "and we, who will remain strangers, will experiment", from the book ''

Three Guineas ''Three Guineas'' is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Background Although ''Three Guineas'' is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her e ...

''. Corbalán also founded independent publishing houses for lesbian and feminist works, including La Mondonga Dark. Following a months-long illness, she died in

Neuquén Neuquén (; ) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province. It occupies a strip of land west of the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén rivers which form t ...

on 13 September 2014. A collection of her poetry, ''Conversaciones en la noche del amor'' was released posthumously in 2017. In 2022, she was honored in a "historical reparation" by the Collective of Writers of Cutral Co and Plaza Huincul.

Selected works

*''La pasajera de arena'' (1992) *''Inferno'' (1999) *''Como mil flores'' (2007) *''El acuerdo'' (2012) *''Anima(i)s'' (2013) *''Conversaciones en la noche del amor'' (2017, posthumous) *''La Rama'' (2022, posthumous)

Anthologies

*''Poesía en la Fisura'', with Daniel Freidemberg (1995) *''Antología de Poetas de la Patagonia'' (2006) *''Poetas Argentinas (1961-1980)'' (2008) *''Poesía del siglo XX en Argentina'' (2010) *''Poesía (1992-2013)'' (2015, posthumous)

References

External links

Poemas de Macky Corbalán (Neuquén)
Noticias dia x dia {{DEFAULTSORT:Corbalán, Macky 1963 births 2014 deaths Argentine women activists Argentine women's rights activists Argentine feminists Lesbian academics Lesbian poets Argentine women poets 21st-century Argentine women writers Argentine lesbian writers Argentine LGBTQ poets Argentine women journalists Argentine journalists