¿Qué es un poema en prosa y cómo se lee en el aula? Esta guía recorre la forma desde Baudelaire hasta Juan Ramón Jiménez, Vallejo y Paz, y presenta dos poemas en prosa del «Libro de payasos y bufones», de El imperio de los sueños, de la poeta hispanounidense Giannina Braschi. Ambos aparecen completos y en video, con claves de lectura, preguntas para conversar y ejercicios de escritura para...
Edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega, Stories of Return gathers Puerto Rican writers who tell, in Spanish, English and Spanglish, what it means to come back. Mayra Santos Febres writes on returns, repatriations and round trips. Willie Perdomo revisits the spaces of his block in “Those Block Spaces,” and Urayoán Noel improvises a poem while walking around Bronx Park. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is in...
On December 3, 2026, Puerto Rican poet and novelist Giannina Braschi will speak at the University of Lausanne as a guest of the English Department’s Fall 2026 Research Seminar Series. Her talk, “Return of the Eternal Sardine,” takes its title from a scene in her epic tragicomedy Putinoika on the travesties of the Trump and Putin era.
Joakim Lindengren’s United States of Banana is a comic book based on a sequence in Giannina Braschi’s larger work. First published in Swedish by Cobolt, with Helena Eriksson’s translation, it later appeared in English from Mad Creek Books, an imprint of Ohio State University Press. Lindengren’s visual allusions, political caricatures, and irreverent art-historical homage have drawn attention from...
La cultura portoricana attraversa letteratura, musica e cinema, mettendo in dialogo l’isola e la diaspora. Julia de Burgos e Giannina Braschi interrogano libertà e appartenenza; Bad Bunny e Jennifer Lopez portano esperienze portoricane nella cultura pop globale; Rita Moreno, Raúl Juliá e Benicio del Toro ampliano lo spazio della rappresentazione cinematografica. Tra indipendenza, integrazione...
Casi todas las historias de la migración puertorriqueña hablan de irse; Cuentos del retorno, editado por Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega, habla de volver. Escritos en español, inglés y spanglish, estos cuentos puertorriqueños de la isla y la diáspora reúnen a algunas de las voces más importantes de nuestra literatura. Mayra Santos Febres escribe sobre retornos, repatriaciones y viajes de ida y vuelta...
Il Centro Studi Americani e il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università di Macerata presentano «Dichiarazioni d’indipendenza: revisioni, riscritture, reinvenzioni», il 18 novembre 2026, dalle 9:00 alle 13:00, presso il Polo Giuseppe Tucci. Giannina Braschi dialogherà con Tess O’Dwyer, Manuel Broncano e Giorgio Mariani nella sessione inaugurale, coordinata da Valerio Massimo De Angelis e...
The Centro Studi Americani and the Department of Humanities at the University of Macerata present “Declarations of Independence: Revisions, Rewritings, Reinventions” on November 18, 2026, at Polo Giuseppe Tucci in Macerata, Italy. Puerto Rican writer and poet Giannina Braschi joins Tess O’Dwyer, Manuel Broncano, and Giorgio Mariani for an opening conversation moderated by Valerio Massimo De...
At the European Association for American Studies’ 2026 conference in Bologna, 1776–2026: Visions of Freedom, scholars from Europe and the United States asked what freedom means at America’s 250th anniversary, and who gets to define it. Cristina Garrigós, president of the Spanish Association for American Studies, answered through literature. In “The Liberation of Wires,” she reads Giannina...
En Sí/pero no: La poesía de Bécquer, Giannina Braschi explora cómo la afirmación y la negación dan movimiento al poema. La célebre rima de las golondrinas permite escuchar esa tensión: algo volverá, pero aquello que hizo única una experiencia no puede repetirse. Publicado por Costa-Amic en 1982 y reeditado en 2022, el estudio enlaza la investigación de la escritora puertorriqueña sobre la...
Frederick Luis Aldama’s Latinx Literature: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press, maps a literary continuum extending from Indigenous storytelling and colonial chronicles to contemporary poetry, fiction, theater, comics, and multilingual writing. The volume ranges across Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American literary traditions and...