Reading Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (1896-1976) and making vocabulary cards for his poems

Today, I read the selection of poems by Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (1896-1976) in one of the two anthologies my student Isabel Jimenez and I are using for our course on Puerto Rican poetry this fall. I was pleased to get the same sense reading Ribera Chevremont that I get reading fiction in Spanish: I may read slowly, but I can get a good sense of the texts even when I stop to look up words. I had already made electronic vocabulary cards (with the program Anki) for two of his poems, but today I almost completed making cards for words in the rest of his anthologized poems — 106 cards in all! (Andrew Shields, #111words, 21 July 2023)