In "Que tus ojos no se cansen de brillar," composer Gabriel Bouche Caro sets the poetry of four Puerto Rican poets Julia de Burgos, Pedro Pietri, Giannina Braschi, and Ángela María Dávila in a new work of contemporary chamber music. Commissioned by the Music of the Americas Series at The Americas Society in New York City, this art song cycle for soprano and ensemble explores puertorriqueñidad...
American Book Review features an essay by Peter Hitchcock on Latinx Philosopher Giannina Braschi... "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers is a welcome and well-conceived volume on the extraordinary work of Giannina Braschi, a Puerto Rican writer and consummate New Yorker whose creative decolonizing of aesthetics and culture deserves sustained critical engagement. Braschi is best known for three works in...
Puerto Rican Poets @ The Whitney, a reading for the exhibition "No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria" The roster of Puerto Rican poets: Giannina Braschi, Rubén Ramos Colón, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Francisco Félix, Denice Frohman, Joey de Jesús, Yara Liceaga, Roberto Ncar, Urayoán Noel, Mara Pastor, Willie Perdomo, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Verónika Reca...
This guide introduces postcolonial graphic novels and related narratives about empire, colonialism, borders, migration, occupation, exile, and resistance. It places United States of Banana alongside works including Bhimayana, Aya, Palestine, Persepolis, and Abina and the Important Men, with scholarship and teaching resources for postcolonial literature, Latinx graphic novels, and comics studies.
Read pastoral poems contemporary and ancient. Contemporary poets who wrote pastoral and anti-pastoral poems include Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Giannina Braschi, Dennis Nurkse, Catherine Pierce, Tracy K. Smith, Eavan Boland, among others. Review a list of resources to learn more about Modern pastoral poetry.
Translanguaging in Literature is the subject of Francisco Moreno-Fernández’s following essay entitled “Yo-Yo Boing! Or Literature as a Translingual Practice.”
Read how Giannina Braschi's literature emerged from the heart of the Nuyorican movement, along with poets like Pedro Pietri, Nancy Mercado, and Edwin Torres... Thomas Roth reviews the anthology "Poets Philosophers and Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi" for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. This blog post features an excerpt of Roth's essay on Braschi’s visionary role in...
The Center of Applied Jungian Studies presents a Lecture Series on the Art of Individuation, featuring Giannina Braschi on Lorca's Theory and Play of the Duende. This post features the roster of scholars who presented lectures on Individuation or Lorca at the Center. Also included are some noteworthy edition of "Theory and Play of the Duende" in Spanish, French, and English. Enjoy an excerpt from...
In this conversation with Jorge Neri Bonilla, Puerto Rican poet-philosopher Giannina Braschi reflects on contradiction as the source of dialogue, creativity, love, and political transformation. Moving from environmental crisis and the pandemic to Antigone, extinction, prophecy, and the limits of art, Braschi argues that hope must sometimes be created rather than found—and that deep rest allows...
Publicada el 17 de mayo de 1981 en Diorama de la Cultura, suplemento dominical de Excélsior de México, esta temprana reseña examina Asalto al tiempo, el primer poemario de Giannina Braschi, en el contexto de la poesía escrita en español en Estados Unidos y de los jóvenes escritores hispanoamericanos en Nueva York. Su autor, José Vázquez Amaral, fue un destacado crítico, ensayista, profesor de...