Defending Free Speech Since 1851. The Cambridge Union, a unique institution at the heart of University of Cambridge, has hosted cultural and political figures, such as Sam Altman, James Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Robert DeNiro, Stephen Fry, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, Jeremy Hunt, Nancy Pelosi, Ronald Reagan, and the Dalai Lama. On Thursday, June 19th at 8pm, The Cambridge Union presents the...
Borimix Awards 2024
HONOREES:
Giannina Braschi
Máximo Rafael Colón
Arlene Davila
Sully Díaz
Gabriel Diego Hernandez
Sonia Manzano
Eddie Noel
Willie Perdomo
Charles Rice
Andres Chulisi Rodriguez
Didi Romero
Jeannie Sol
Rhina Valentin
CENTRO, the journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, reviews Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. "What we witness in Braschi is an artist that moves beyond the traditional im/migrant story in search of the American Dream, though the American Dream looms large in her writing. Her work reveals characterizations that constantly question the imposition of ideologies...
THE GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATINO LITERATURE edited by Nicolás Kanellos in 2010 features an entry on Latina novelist and poet Giannina Braschi.
Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren teamed up on this scathing critique of American colonialism. Through comic book format they take to task state sanctioned violence, mass incarceration, mass deportation, and financial terrorism in post-9/11 American culture.
PEN calls the Puerto Rican poet and author Giannina Braschi one of the most revolutionary writers in Latin American literature today. In Puerto Rico, we are proud to call this Boricua more simply “one of us!” Born in San Juan, she was a founding member of El Coro de Niños de San Juan, a fashion model, and tennis champion in her teen years on the island. Her family friends and mentors included the...
Latinx Spaces interviewed Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro about his art song cycle based upon Giannina Braschi's epic love poem to New York City, El imperio de los sueños. Braschi named Angelamaría Dávila, Luis Pales Matos, and Julia de Burgos as her favorite Puerto Rican poets who the composer should include in his song cycle.
The avant-garde writings of Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi have long been the subject of college courses and doctoral dissertations in fields ranging from Latin American studies and Spanglish linguistics to postmodern and postcolonial literatures. But these days her radical texts are popping up in popular culture and far-ranging spaces traditionally devoid of Latinx poetry and philosophy...
Fashion is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry. Fashion offers us clues of the collective mood. Its frivolity is important because it makes light of what is heavy. Everything good in life has light or wants to become light.
The New York States Writers Institute interviewed Giannina Braschi, a celebrated member of the Nuyorican poets and a pioneer of literature in Spanglish.