PBS Books and the Library of Congress explore Puerto Rico’s literary heritage in American Stories: A Reading Road Trip, connecting Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Julia de Burgos, Isabel Freire de Matos, René Marqués, and Nuyorican Poets Cafe cofounder Miguel Algarín with contemporary writers Mayra Santos-Febres, Mara Pastor, Giannina Braschi, and Willie Perdomo. Moving across theater, poetry, fiction...
This guide celebrates the collective genius of 14 contemporary poets whose styles, forms, and cultural perspectives differ dramatically, yet who share the expansive creative territory of the Spanish language. Ida Vitale, Rafael Cadenas, Cristina Peri Rossi, Raúl Zurita, Coral Bracho, Giannina Braschi, Luis García Montero, and Olvido García Valdés reinvent language, carry poetry across borders...
Celebra el Mes de la Herencia Hispana explorando la riqueza de la literatura puertorriqueña en la isla y la diáspora. Esta guía presenta cuatro librerías esenciales —Julia de Burgos Bookstore, Casa Norberto, Librería Laberinto y Libros787— que conectan a lectores de todo el mundo con autores puertorriqueños clásicos y contemporáneos. También ofrece una introducción a una tradición escrita en...
United States of Banana, a Graphic Novel Una conversación entre Frederick Luis Aldama y Tess O’Dwyer, coeditores de Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Esta conversación sobre filósofos y poetas latinoamericanos se publicó originalmente en febrero de 2021. Consulte también la versión en inglés. Frederick Luis Aldama y Tess O’Dwyer coeditaron Poets...
Carlos Labbé reads Giannina Braschi’s Empire of Dreams as a groundbreaking Spanish Caribbean epic. His essay anchors this guide to major poets and essential poetry books from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, tracing traditions of experimentation, migration, exile, multilingualism, Afro-Caribbean identity, and resistance. This resource include lists of Caribbean poets and their...
Explore essential McOndo novels and writers, including Post-Boom novels, stories, poetry, and experimental works by Latin American writers. Have you read these essential Post-Boom novelists: Giannina Braschi, Rodrigo Fresán, Alberto Fuguet, Sergio Gómez, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Mayra Santos Febre, and Jorge Volpi? McOndo is a Latin American Post Boom Literary movement that began in the 1990s by edgy...
Esta guía presenta la amplitud de la poesía puertorriqueña contemporánea, desde Julia de Burgos, Luis Palés Matos y el movimiento nuyorican hasta Giannina Braschi, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo, Raquel Salas Rivera, Mara Pastor, Nicole Cecilia Delgado y Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. Explora los vínculos entre la isla y la diáspora; el español, el inglés y el Spanglish; la poesía experimental y...
The Puerto Rican Day Parade Facts. Every second Sunday in June, Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue welcomes millions of revelers cheering in the streets for the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the largest single-day celebration of Hispanic heritage and cultural pride in the United States. Led through the decades by iconic Grand Marshals like Tito Puente, Marc Anthony, Rita Moreno, and Lin-Manuel Miranda...
This informal guide explores how, for nearly 2,500 years, artists and writers have continuously reinterpreted Sophocles’ Antigone to reframe its timeless conflict between individual conscience and state authority. Visual creators—from ancient Greek ceramicists and Neoclassical painters to Mark Rothko and contemporary figures like painter Alexandra Grant and poet Giannina Braschi—rely on fresh...
Postcolonial political philosophy examines how empire shapes freedom, sovereignty, citizenship, language, and political identity. Puerto Rican poet and philosopher Giannina Braschi transforms these questions into literature through satire, Spanglish, dramatic dialogue, and radical experiments in form. From Grace Whistler’s new study of Braschi’s parables and Goya-inspired monsters in Literature...