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 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 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 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...
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.
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...
Como parte de las actividades celebratorias del quincuagésimo aniversario de la ANLE, la Junta Directiva dio a conocer el programa de la ceremonia protocolar que se llevará a cabo el sábado 3 de junio en las instalaciones del Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York (211 East 49th Street, New York, NY). Presentación del Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert” de la ANLE en sus ediciones 2022 y 2023:...
Tercer Congreso de la ANLE:
Convocatoria a la presentación de trabajos para el III Congreso de la ANLE, que se llevará a cabo en Miami del 18 al 21 de mayo del 2023 en el marco del 50º aniversario de su fundación, y con el lema “El español, lengua y creación en Estados Unidos”.
Famous Writing Routines recently interviewed Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi. In the interviews, Braschi says, “The habits, the habitation, the routines give me security.” Here are excerpts; read full interview at Famous Writing Routines. Giannina Braschi is a celebrated Puerto Rican poet and author whose work spans across genres and languages. She has been hailed by PEN America as “one of...