Nuyorican poets didn’t simply enter American literature—they broke open its language, claimed its stages, and built their own institutions when the establishment shut them out. Moving through English, Spanish, Spanglish, performance, humor, and political resistance, they made poetry multilingual, embodied, and public. From Algarín’s street-rooted poetics, Pietri’s incendiary performances, and...
BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest connects theater, poetry, music, film, visual art, and performance within New York’s Nuyorican and Latinx cultural landscape. Founded by Miguel Trelles and Manuel Morán, the festival grew from The Clemente on the Lower East Side into a citywide encounter among artists from Puerto Rico, its diaspora, and Latin America, supported by institutions including Teatro LATEA...
Read how Giannina Braschi's literature emerged from the heart of the Nuyorican movement, along with poets like Pedro Pietri, Nancy Mercado, and Edwin Torres... Thomas Roth reviews the anthology "Poets Philosophers and Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi" for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. This blog post features an excerpt of Roth's essay on Braschi’s visionary role in...
Thomas Rothe reviews Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer, in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2021). The review recognizes this landmark collection as an essential contribution to Giannina Braschi scholarship, examining her poetry, bilingual writing, literary experimentation, and significance within...