Genre is based on space, not on time. Genres create prototypes that can last for centuries. Like the creation of the prototype of tragedy by Aeschylus. Or pataphysics by Alfred Jarry. Their future is pregnant with thoughts. A new genre creates a space that future generations can enter and write—in that model, in that prototype—a new mode of thinking. --Giannina Braschi
I am interested in the creation of a genre. Not in the creation of a literary movement. Nor in being a part of a generation. Genre is based on space, not on time. Genres create prototypes that can last for centuries. Like the creation of the prototype of tragedy by Aeschylus. Or pataphysics by Alfred Jarry. Their future is pregnant with thoughts. A new genre creates a space that future...
Poetry Magazine presents the poem Antigone by Giannina Braschi. Poetry has also featured poems by Toi Derricotte, Carolyn Forché, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera,Jamaal May, Les Murray, Craig Santos Perez, Safiya Sinclair, Karen Solie, C.D. Wright.
Antigone, a dramatic poem by Giannina Braschi, in Poetry Magazine. "Antigone: Anti what is gone. If it leaves, it’s for a reason. Anti has to be gone. It has to go. It always goes against. Against the state— against kinship—and against myself. I don’t want to be the anti-clash. Anti has to go from gone. Gone has to leave immediately, without pause, without cause. I can understand the arguments...
The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary Celebration, Madrid, April 6-8, 2022 The European Association for American Studies is proud to present poet Giannina Braschi and scholars David E. Chinitz, Ramón del Castillo, and Eulalia Piñero Gil as the plenary speakers of The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary Celebration in Madrid this April. The title of 2022 EAAS Wastelands conference alludes to T...
Read about The Giannina Chair designed by Ian Stell. The chair transforms from a spinning seat to a standing lamp. The kinetic design was born of Giannina Braschi's philosophy that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi wins the 2021 Cambiemos Prize from Cambio16 in Spain for her lifetime achievements in literature. Sir David Frederick Attenborough was honored by Cambio16 in 2020, and Al Gore was honored for his life's work in environmental justice in 2019.
"Hay que entender el amanecer —cómo amanece el mundo— para entender como tenemos que despertarnos. El mundo se levanta lento, y con luz tenue, y va escalando en sonidos, en voces, a través de diferentes gradaciones, hasta llegar al mediodía. Así debemos amanecer con gradaciones de luz y energía. El descanso profundo es necesario para salir del cansancio profundo que sufrimos antes, durante, y...
American Book Review of "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: on the Writings of Giannina Braschi".
"This 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," writes Peter Hitchcock in "Slippery Subjectivity".
Famous Puerto Rican writers, poets, artists, actors, directors, comedians, musicians, and political activists debut their new projects at Teatro LATEA, a beloved stage at The Clemente in the Lower East Side of New York City. The Clemente presents famous Puerto Rican poets, artists, actors, directors, and activists Tertulia with Poet Giannina Braschi and Artist Miguel Trelles Hernández Musical...