Watch a video on the Spanglish literary classic Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi. This page also includes an alphabetical list of Nuyorican poets.
Key words: Nuyorican poets, Spanglish novel, Spanglish poetry, Spanglish fiction, Contemporary American literature
LA MEDALLA FRAY LUIS DE LEÓN 2025: Giannina Braschi
ZENDA LIBROS "Danzando con Giannina Braschi" "Se abre el telón y entran grandes personajes de la tragedia griega: Cassandra, Electra, Antígona, Tiresias, Edipo, Clitemnestra… junto a Giannina, que vuelve a ser una pensadora puetorriqueña consciente de los modos de apropiación cultural y las imposiciones coloniales desde los clásicos al presente. A través de diálogos filosóficos entre estos...
Nylon China interviews iconic poet Giannina Braschi: "Adorning Characters with the Spirit of the Era." "A poet captures the temperature of the moment, and so does a designer. They are thermometers that measure the fever of society. Fashion is a measure of the moment, the fleeting moment, not the eternal moment. But the eternal is also a part of the fleeting. Poets and designers can transform...
Putinoika analysis: "At the heart of Putinoika lies the exploration of tyranny and oppression, embodied in the figures of Trump and Putin, who dominate the text and epitomize humanity’s failures. Braschi’s representation of these figures is both satirical and critical, exposing the absurdity and danger of their authoritarian tendencies." Elidio de la Torre Lagares
Major Caribbean writers such as Nobel prize winners Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul are featured in this essay by Mathew Olorunfemi in Omiron Style, alongside other major Caribbean poets and writers such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant,Jean Rhys, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Condé, Marlon James, Kei Miller, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Giannina Braschi.
"El texto de Braschi es como la música de las estrellas: resuena y se pierde en la vastedad, donde Edipo, Antígona y Eurídice interactúan con figuras políticas como Donald Trump y Vladimir Putin, mientras muestrea todo desde Tito Puente, Leonard Cohen y Carol G hasta Greta Thunberg. En un mundo paralelo, Putinoika es la matriz del Wasteland, de T.S. Eliot." Elidio de la Torre Lagares SIGLO 22
Ilan Stavans blurbs Putinoika in the style of… Ilan Stavans Blurbs Putinoika in the style of Stavans blurbs Putinoika Ilan Stavans blurbs Giannina Braschi’s new book PUTINOIKA in the style of his philosophical and literary heroes–Shakespeare, Diogenes of Sinope, Johan Gottfried Herder, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Juan Luis Vives, and Sor Juana. Illustrations of Ilan as his heroes by...
El imperio de los sueños. Poeta: Giannina Braschi. Film by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. Directed by Williams Cole.
Giannina Braschi reads Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land in a short film directed by Williams Cole and presented by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets.