Pratt presents Giannina Braschi
Pratt presents THE LETTER PODCAST
Pratt presents Giannina Braschi;s Putinoika
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
ARC E-02 Lecture Hall
200 Willoughby Ave.,
Brooklyn NY 11025
Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi reads from her latest novel Putinoika, a multilingual epic that fuses poetry, philosophy, and satire, reimagining Greek tragedy through today’s political and cultural upheavals. After the reading, writer and Pratt Professor Mónica-Ramón Ríos will moderate a q&a.
The reading is open to students, the Pratt community, and to the public. A reception will follow.
Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, and essayist whose works explore themes of language, politics, and cultural identity across Spanish, Spanglish, and English. Her major publications include El imperio de los sueños (1988), Empire of Dreams (1994), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), United States of Banana (2011), and Putinoika (2024). Described by the Library of Congress as “cutting-edge, influential, and even revolutionary,” Braschi has received numerous honors, including the ASA’s Angela Y. Davis Award (2024) and the Fray Luis de León Medal (2025).
This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Thank you to Gina Marchetti and Joshua Tan from Pratt’s HMS for their support. A special thanks to Pratt Writing and the School of Arts at Pratt for their support.
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