Patricia López-Gay participó en el XVII Congreso de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), celebrado entre el 11 y 13 de noviembre de 2024 en Quito. Su ponencia se enfocó en la obra de la escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi, particularmente en los libros Estados Unidos de Banana, recientemente reeditado en una versión gráfica, y PUTINOIKA. López-Gay presentó estas obras...
La escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi recibió el Premio Angela Davis 2024 del American Studies Association (ASA), la organización académica más antigua y grande dedicada al estudio interdisciplinario de las culturas e historias de Estados Unidos. CAMBIO16
Putinoika is a luminous book. Its light comes from an apparent chaos, a mirror of our time, written in a precise, profane, and sweetly convulsive language.
BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest connects theater, poetry, music, film, visual art, and performance within New York’s Nuyorican and Latinx cultural landscape. Founded by Miguel Trelles and Manuel Morán, the festival grew from The Clemente on the Lower East Side into a citywide encounter among artists from Puerto Rico, its diaspora, and Latin America, supported by institutions including Teatro LATEA...
PUTINOIKA BOOK REVIEW BY LATINX POP MAGAZINE "The Putinas’s voices, mainly comprised of Ivana, Ivanka, and Melania, brilliantly parallel with the Maenads—whose existence is determined by their devotion to Bacchus. Yet it is not Bacchus but the Putin’s Russian regime that is the Putinas’s subject of devotion in this case. As Melania the Putina reaffirms, “We’re more flesh than inspiration. We’re...
Giannina Braschi reads from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Giannina Braschi reads from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Directed by Williams Cole Giannina Braschi reads from The Waste Land Short Film on TS ELIOT’S THE WASTE LAND Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,Had a bad cold, neverthelessIs known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said...
BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest connects theater, poetry, music, film, visual art, and performance within New York’s Nuyorican and Latinx cultural landscape. Founded by Miguel Trelles and Manuel Morán, the festival grew from The Clemente on the Lower East Side into a citywide encounter among artists from Puerto Rico, its diaspora, and Latin America, supported by institutions including Teatro LATEA...
"La Grecia de los clásicos vive aún, sobre todo, en la escritura de Giannina Braschi. Viven las bacantes, las musas y las furias; viven los sátiros; vive Edipo, al igual que Antígona y Casandra, también Tiresias, Creonte y Electra. (Aparecen aquí también, entre muchos otros, El Greco, María Callas y Picasso, con Ivana, Ivanka, Melania y “Pendejo”, -el innombrable- además de Giannina misma.) En un...
The International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference (November 13-15th 2024) is a public platform to celebrate the rich diversity of human experience across cultures and a unique opportunity to foster intercultural collaboration with writers, editors, educators, media outlets, and publishers. Headlining talent includes literary luminaries such as Carmen Boullosa (Mexico), Giannina Braschi...
Collusion of Hairdos “I am promiscuous with hairstyles. I change my hairstyle all the time. I don’t cheat on my husband. I cheat on my hairdressers. They always give me the same cut. Maybe they only know how to do it one way. But I do it with all and with none. And I want them to innovate—to change their style. You think I am once. But I am not once. It never happens once in my lifetime and...