Hispanic Heritage Month 2024

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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 book PUTINOIKA launches September 25, 2024. PUTINOIKA is a multi-genre epic about frenzy and plague in the Putin and Trump era. PUTINOIKA is a multi-genre epic about frenzy and plague in the era of Putin and Trump. Inspired by the ancient Greek tragedies, PUTINOIKA unfolds in three-parts: Palinode, Bacchae, and Putinoika. In a world flooding with collusion, delusion, and pollution, hope not only stands its ground in PUTINOIKA, but it also elevates us to higher realms with exhilarating new literary forms, poetic expressions, and a renewed faith in creativity. PUTINOIKA insists that poets, philosophers, and lovers have the capacity to create on a scale greater than society’s capacity to destroy. If Waiting for Godot is a threnody of hope in the atomic age, PUTINOIKA is the “Invictus” we didn’t know we were waiting for after the global pandemic.

Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 event
NYU Hispanic Heritage Month 2025: Book Launch of PUTINOIKA

Launch of Giannina Braschi’s Latest Book: PUTINOIKA!

Register on Eventbrite to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 at NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center on September 25th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/join-us-for-the-launch-of-giannina-braschis-latest-book-putinoika-tickets-1020197055857?aff=oddtdtcreator

Wednesday, September 25 · 6:30 – 8:30pm

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

53 Washington Square South, NYC

Publisher: FlowerSong Press


NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

Title: PUTINOIKA

Release Date:  September 25, 2024

Publisher:        Brown Ink, a new imprint of FlowerSong Press curated by Frederick Luis Aldama 

Illustrators:      Rosaura Rodríguez and Omar Banuchi of Días Cómic; Roi du Lac

Formats:          Paperback + digital

Price:               $21.00

Order:              FlowerSong Press, Amazon, or any online bookseller

Giannina Braschi is an award-winning American poet, novelist, and radical thinker who writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. Her masterworks include the epic poem El imperio de los sueños/Empire of Dreams, the iconic Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!, and the geopolitical tragicomedy United States of Banana. Putinoika is an epic tragicomedy on collusion, delusion and pollution.  The U.S. Library of Congress calls Braschi “cutting-edge, influential, and even revolutionary,” and PEN America recognizes her as “one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today.” Her life’s work is the subject of the anthology of essays, Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer. Accolades include honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, and PEN America. She has received lifetime achievement awards from the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, Cambio 16 in Spain, and her native city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Terms frequently associated with Braschi include Postcolonial Literature, Latinx Philosophy, Postdramatic Theatre, Hysterical Realism, McOndo, and Post-Boom. She goes simply by poet.

For interview requests, contact publicist Lucas Jones: lucasjonespublicity@gmail.com

952-215-4807

Mes de la herencia hispana 2024/ Hispanic Heritage Month 2024: Putinoika