Celebrate Hispanic Heritage NYC Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2024. NYU Presents Giannina Braschi’s new book PUTINOIKA, a modern Bacchae, set in the Trump-Putin era. Kind Juan Carlos Center at NYU. Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 6:30pm “I entered through a window of the White House. But I will get out through an escape door at Mar a Lago.” —Bacchus Giannina Braschi’s new...
September 11 poems
September 11 poems in videos by Michael Somoroff: excerpts from United States of Banana by Giannina Braschi. September 11th Poems in Prose Ground Zero It’s the end of the world. I was excited by the whole situation. Well, if everybody is going to die, die hard, shit, but what do I know. Is this an atomic bomb—the end of the world—the end of the millennium? No more fear of being fired—for typos or...
Fiesta de la Lengua Caguas
Fiesta de la lengua Caguas Fiesta de la lengua en Caguas Fiesta de la lengua Caguas El Departamento de Desarrollo Cultural del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas 25 de abril 2024 Conversatorio con la escritora Giannina Braschi Con Roque Raquel Sala Rivera (poeta) y Gabriel Bouche Caro (compositor) Sala Leopoldo Santiago Lavandero. De la antigua alcaldía de Caguas. Fiesta de la lengua en...
Fiesta de la lengua
Fiesta de la lengua con Giannina Braschi en Puerto Rico: Caguas, Gurabo, El Viejo San Juan Fiesta de la lengua en Puerto Rico Giannina Braschi en conversatorio en la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua La Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española invita al público en general al conversatorio entre la escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi y la crítica literaria y académica Carmen Dolores...
Rise of Frenzy
Rise of Frenzy is a reading from PUTINOIKA by Giannina Braschi, delivered at CUNY GRAD CENTER in May 2024 as part of the “FRIDAY FORUM PRESENTS” program.
Ambroggio Prize 2025
Giannina Braschi, judge, Ambroggio Prize 2025. The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by the University of Arizona Press, which is nationally recognized for its commitment to publishing the award-winning works of emerging and established voices in...
Putinoika by Braschi
Forrest Gander, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of Mojave Ghost, lauds Putinoika by Braschi, stating, "If, as in Ezra Pound’s translation of Aristotle, the ‘swift perception of relations’ is truly the ‘hallmark of genius,’ it’s in the brightly lit halls of Braschi’s books where poetry is tested and stamped with such a mark."
Spanish Caribbean Poets
Spanish Caribbean Poets and Poetry Collections.
2023 Gather in Poems
2023 Gather in Poems featured reading of poems by Giannina Braschi, Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, among others. See the video of the program produced by the Academy of American Poets.
Gather in Poems 2023
The Academy of American Poets presents Gather in Poems 2023, featuring readings by Academy Chancellors and beloved poets in the community, hosted in the spirit of gratitude and a shared hope. Ricardo Maldonado reads "Behind the Word is Silence" by Giannina Braschi. Denice Frohman reads "Relax" by Ellen Bass. Kwame Dawes reads "Traces by" Matthew Shenoda. Dorianne Laux reads "Counting" by Jane...