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Bridging the Diaspora: A Bilingual Reading by Letras Boricuas Fellows

Room 2102B, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Among Puerto Rico’s great cultural traditions is literature, yet Puerto Rican writers past and present lack visibility in the United States and continue to face the effects and legacy of colonialism. Five award-winning recipients of the Letras Boricuas Fellowship share poetry and fiction that spans topics of identity, language, and climate disasters, among others. The presenters, from both Puerto Rico and the U.S. diaspora, offer readings in Spanish and English. ASL interpretation provided.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Outline_-_Bridging_the_Diaspora_A_Bilingual_Reading_by_Letras_Boricuas_Fellows.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Vanessa Martir is the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. A 2021 Letras Boricuas fellow, her work has appeared in the New York Times, the GuardianWashington PostThe RumpusLongreads, and the anthologies Not That Bad and So We Can Know among others.

Cezanne Cardona is a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and columnist. In 2018 he published Levittown mon amour, a short story collection, and won Premio Nuevas Voces from Festival de la Palabra and Premio Nacional from Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña. In 2021 Cardona received the Letras Boricuas fellowhip from Mellon Foundation

Carmen R. Marín is a Letras Boricuas Fellow (2021). She has published two books of poems and a book of hybrid texts. She writes about (and from) the feminine experience, from the joyfulness of being in love with another woman to motherhood to the many faces of violence against women and girls.

Urayoán Noel is a Letras Boricuas poetry fellow, a National Translation Award finalist, and the author or translator of a dozen books, most recently Transversal, an NYPL Book of the Year, and Nicole Cecilia Delgado's adjacent islands. Noel teaches at NYU and at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas.

Amina Lolita Gautier is the author of four short story collections: At-RiskNow We Will Be HappyThe Loss of All Lost Things, and The Best That You Can Do. For her body of work she has received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

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February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

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