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Revenge of Poetry

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Università degli Studi di Udine: Si invitano gli/le studenti/esse all'evento organizzato nel ciclo degli Incontri con l'esperto The Revenge of Poetry, the Revenge of Philosophy in Contemporary Culture. L'evento sarà curato dalla poeta e filosofa Giannina Braschi in dialogo con Tess O'Dwyer, chair alla Academy of American Poets. (a\Autrice portoricana)

To Create a Genre

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Università di Trieste:

La scrittrice portoricana Giannina Braschi terrà una conferenza dal titolo “To Create a Genre” e leggerà estratti dal libro sui cui sta lavorando, nell’ambito del corso di “Narrazioni e Storytelling” della Prof.ssa Sergia Adamo.

Putinas of Putin

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Putinas of Putin is a dramatic scene in the new epic tragicomedy by Giannina Braschi entitled PUTINOIKA. It's a multi-genre epic exploring the frenzy and plague in the era of Putin and Trump. Drawing inspiration from ancient Greek tragedies, PUTINOIKA unfolds in three parts: Palinode, Bacchae, and Putinoika. Amid a world overflowing with collusion, delusion, and pollution, hope not only stands...

Sagrado Corazón Alumna Honored

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En la historia de Giannina Braschi, exalumna de Sagrado, se escribe un nuevo capítulo luego que la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) le otorgara un premio “Enrique Anderson Imbert” este 2022, por su trayectoria literaria. De inicio, “la madre Arzuaga me exhortó a estudiar psicología y filosofía, un ejercicio que me ayudó a encontrarme”, dijo la poeta egresada del Colegio de las...

Puerto Rican Graphic Novels

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Read about Puerto Rican graphic novels, starting with "United States of Banana" by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren. “I was a monument to immigration—now I’m a border control cop.” So admits the Statue of Liberty in Giannina Braschi’s United States of Banana, a rollicking and nakedly political allegory of US imperialism and Puerto Rican independence. Illustrated by Swedish comic book artist...

Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series

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Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series 2023. Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading Hosted by Rosie Perez amd featuring Giannina Braschi, Sonia Guiñansaca, Jamaica Kincaid, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, and Esmeralda Santiago. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is...

Unterberg Poetry Center 2023-2024

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Unterberg Poetry Center 2023-2024 presents “Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading”, a special program featuring Latine and Caribbean authors such as Rosie Perez, Giannina Braschi, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.

Daughters of Latin America Anthology

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Daughters of Latin America An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women By Sandra Guzman Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña—gathered in...

Experimental Writing Today

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World Literature Today: Carlos Labbé wonders whether it is “still possible to speak of experimental writing when we live in a reality where facts are constantly written in a language already programmed by someone else.” Examining the work of Giannina Braschi, he makes a case that it is, indeed, still possible.

Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers

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Diasporic Journeys is a collection of interviews on contemporary Diasporic Puerto Rican authors publishing and performing throughout the Unites States and abroad, with particular interest in the ways in which history, traditions, geographic dispersal, cultural/ national identity, and linguistic merging converge in their lived experience and in their writing. The collection includes interviews...