Visibly moved, Ribas explains that this is how she discovered the poet Suzuki Shizuko, a woman who, in post-World War II Japan under US occupation, broke with the rules of haiku and "made it her refuge." Shizuko was little known even in her own country, partly due to a reluctance to acknowledge the institutionalized sexual violence of the postwar years. The co-director of the Pepe Sales Festival had to undertake an exhaustive search to be able to read her work. She consulted newspaper archives and came across a symposium featuring Jaime Lorente, a writer and professor from Toledo, passionate about haiku and Japanese culture. He had self-published a translation of Shizuko's haiku, which, far from simply describing landscapes, beauty, and seasons in a traditional style, championed a fiercely independent poetry in the first person, achieving the remarkable ferocity of creating beauty in a harsh life and climate.

"You'd go to a party and people would barely hide when they did a line of cocaine," says David López Canales (Madrid, 1980). "This is why this journalist decided to try to answer a question: why is so much cocaine consumed in Spain and not talked about? The result is the essay ¿A little line?, from Anagrama publishing house.