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SUMMARY:Isla No Isla
DESCRIPTION:THE LOISAIDA CENTER \nIS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE: \n\n  \nISLA NO ISLA \n  \n\nA Sunday Reading with: \nUráyoan Noel (Puerto Rico)\, Omar Pérez (Cuba)\, Edwin Torres (New York City) \n\n\nBIOS:\n\n\n\nUrayoán Noel teaches at NYU and is the author\, most recently\, ofEnUncIAdOr (Editora Educación Emergente\, 2014) and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(University of Iowa Press\, 2014). A former CantoMundo and Ford Foundation fellow\, he has two books forthcoming: Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press) and a bilingual edition of the poetry of Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books). He lives in the Bronx and is the poetry editor of NACLA Report on the Americas.\n\nOmar Pérez has consistently translated from the English\, Italian\, French and Dutch languages. He has published\, among others\, a (Cuban) Spanish version of Shakespeare ́s As You Like It: Como les Guste; a translation of Dylan Thomas ́s Collected Poems; an anthology of XX Century Italian poetry (L ́Antimelancólico)\, a collection of Anglophone African poetry (Mágicos Intervalos) as well as (Lo que es) an anthology of Dutch verse. Numerous translations of poems\, short stories and novels from the above mentioned languages\, have been publishedin Cuba and abroad.\n\n\nOmar Pérez has collaborated in the theatre\, both as an actor and musician. He has thus participated in festivals such as Villa e Castelle\, Regione Marche\, Italy\, 1996\, or Bienal de Danza del Caribe\, Havana\, 2008 and 2010.\nHe has interacted with several actors\, musicians and dancers in plays\, performances\, happenings in Cuba and Europe.\nAs a poet\, Pérez has participated in festivals such as Poetry International\, Rotterdam\, 2002\, and Festival de Poesía de Medellín\, in 2006.\n\n\nEdwin Torres is the author of many poetry collections\, including most recently “Ameriscopia” (University of Arizona Press). He’s the founder of The Noricua Movement and has been a leaky fixture in the New York City poetry community for over two decades. Eleni Sikelianos writes\, “Edwin Torres shatters the definition of Latino into a million little pieces.” He has an ebook forthcoming in 2015 from (Tuiteratura Ediciones\, Spain) entitled “ePOWM!”\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nFREE!!!\nStarts at 4:00PM
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LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:InVisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
DESCRIPTION:InVisible Movement:\nNuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam\n\n  \n ¡Gracias to all who joined us for the book release!\nSeptember 17th\, 2014 @ 7 PM\nPoet and scholar Urayoán “Ura” Noel\, an Assistant Professor of English and Spanish at NYU\, presented his new book InVisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press\, 2014)\, the first book-length critical study of Nuyorican poetry. \nDiscounted copies of the book are still available for sale.\n \n\n\n\n \n \n“A crucial contribution to our literary history\, In Visible Movement charts the evolution of an increasingly visible movement in the literary arts\, shedding light on many related poetries of the past six decades in the process. Noel proposes ‘an understanding of poetry performance as revisionism: operating across and along page and stage\,’ an understanding that proceeds from the poets themselves.” \n—Aldon Lynn Nielsen\, author\, Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation\n\n\n\n \nAbout the author: \nUrayoán Noel is a poet\, performer\, scholar\, and translator who is currently an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Albany and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at NYU. His books include the poetry collections Kool Logic/La lógica kool (Bilingual Press\, 2005)\, Boringkén (Ediciones Callejón/La Tertulia\, Puerto Rico\, 2008)\, Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVOX\, 2010)\, and Los días porosos (Catafixia Editorial\, Guatemala\, 2012)\, and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(University of Iowa Press\, forthcoming). His other works include the performance DVD Kool Logic Sessions(Bilingual Press\, 2005\, with Monxo López)\, the multimedia project The Edgemere Letters (2011\, with Martha Clippinger)\, and\, as translator\, the chapbooks ILUSOS by Edwin Torres (Atarraya Cartonera\, Puerto Rico\, 2010) and Belleza y Felicidad (Belladonna\, 2005). He has been a fellow of CantoMundo\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and the Ford Foundation\, and his creative and critical writings have appeared in Latino Studies\, Contemporary Literature\, Small Axe\, Bomb\, Fence\, and in numerous national and international anthologies. Originally from San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Urayoán Noel earned his B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico\, Río Piedras\, his M.A. from Stanford\, and his Ph.D. from NYU. He lives in the Bronx. \n  \n\n 
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