Carolyn Kuebler reviews Empire of Dreams for The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Giannina Braschi has earned her preferred label of modern writer. Latin American, Puerto Rican, New Yorker, and feminist are apt labels as well, but though they might be selling points, they do little to describe her writing. Braschi writes with a strong poetic tradition behind her, and from her erudite standpoint...
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...
In “The Poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time,” literary scholar Laura R. Loustau examines how Braschi’s first poetry collection transforms language, ordinary objects, and the reader’s perception of the world. Loustau follows the poet-child through a shifting landscape of animated words, dream, solitude, visual art, and imaginative play, showing how the boundaries between...
In "Que tus ojos no se cansen de brillar," composer Gabriel Bouche Caro sets the poetry of four Puerto Rican poets Julia de Burgos, Pedro Pietri, Giannina Braschi, and Ángela María Dávila in a new work of contemporary chamber music. Commissioned by the Music of the Americas Series at The Americas Society in New York City, this art song cycle for soprano and ensemble explores puertorriqueñidad...
"The Poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time" by Laura R. Loustau contextualizes Braschi's first book of poems Asalto al tiempo within the context of Latin American visual arts and literature. The full essay appears in "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). Enjoy these excerpts.