Rise of Frenzy in PUTINOIKA
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.
POLITICS AND POETICS BETWEEN PUERTO RICO AND NEW YORK CITY
Join us to welcome Giannina Braschi, famed Puerto Rican novelist, for a reading and a discussion on the politics and poetics between Puerto Rico and New York City. Braschi will read from her new work, Putinoika, about the Trump and Putin era we are enduring and the rise of frenzy.
Rise in Frenzy Q&A
Joseph Cáceres is a writer from the South Bronx whose work explores the absent Puerto Rican presence in the American scene as necessary for the construction of our ideals of democracy, freedom, empire, and desire. An alumnus of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, Joseph is also the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts’ Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant for Fiction, and the 2019 LAMBDA Literary Writers Residency for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. His work has been published in Emerge: 2019 Lambda Fellows Anthology, Slice Literary Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue, and CURA Literary Magazine. He has received awards and grants to support his work with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project. In 2022 Joseph, along with Lois Elaine Griffith, one of the last surviving founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, co-edited an anthology memorializing the life and work of the Cafe’s founding father, Miguel Algarín, Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love, which was published by NYU’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. Joseph is currently working on a three-book project revolving around the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s aesthetic. He lead the Rise of Frenzy discussion as part of Friday Forum Presents at the CUNY Grad Center.
Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the GC. He is the author of five books,
including The Long Space, for Stanford University Press. His most recent publications include, “Accumulating Fictions” for Representations,“Immolation” for the Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, “How to Read a Discipline” for Comparative Literature, “Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London” for an anthology on Hanif Kureishi, “( ) of Ghosts” in The Spectralities Reader, “The Space of Time: Chronotopes and Crisis” for Primerjalna Knjizevnost, “Defining the World” inc Literary Materialisms and “Everything’s Gone Green: The
Environment of BP’s Narrative” for Imaginations. Forthcoming book projects include a monograph on the cultural representation of labor, a monograph on worlds of postcoloniality, and an edited collection on the New Public
Intellectual. He is currently working on two research projects: one about seriality in politics and culture; the other on the aesthetics of commodities and financial instruments. Hitchcock is the Associate Director of The Center for Place Culture and Politics at the CUNY English Dept. He introduced the Rise of Frenzy, featuring Giannina Braschi at the CUNY Grad Center in May 2024.
Lois Elaine Griffith is an artist/writer whose work is grounded in her Afro-Caribbean roots. She is one of the founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and for 23 years taught at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She has established the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project to encourage study of arts and letters from the Caribbean and its diaspora. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. She participated in the Rise of Frenzy event, featuring Giannina Braschi on the topic of Politics and Poetics Between Puerto Rico and New York City.
POLITICS AND POETICS BETWEEN PUERTO RICO AND NEW YORK CITY
What is Rise of Frenzy
Rise of Frenzy is a dramatic reading by Giannina Braschi from her new epic tragicomedy PUTINOIKA presented at CUNY Graduate Center on May 10, 2024 by the English Department.