Brooklyn Book Festival Book Ends – Puerto Rican Writing: One Year After Maria

Fri, Sep 14 2018
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Leonard Library

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September 2018 marks one year after Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico. This event features contemporary Puerto Rican writers of both poetry and prose sharing new creative work and discussing how the ongoing crisis has transformed our styles of survival, our experience of diaspora, and the function of translation. Readings will include a bilingual element to fully represent Puerto Rican linguistic diversity. Featuring four writers, moderated and introduced by editors of forthcoming Puerto Rican anthologies from *The Common* and *Puerto Rico en mi corazón.* With Andrés Cerpa, Francisco Font-Acevedo, Carmen Graciela Díaz, Joey de Jesus and Carina del Valle Schorske.

This is a Brooklyn Book Festival Book Ends event.

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Add to My Calendar 09/14/2018 03:00 pm 09/14/2018 04:30 pm America/New_York Brooklyn Book Festival Book Ends – Puerto Rican Writing: One Year After Maria <p>September 2018 marks one year after Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico. This event features contemporary Puerto Rican writers of both poetry and prose sharing new creative work and discussing how the ongoing crisis has transformed our styles of survival, our experience of diaspora, and the function of translation. Readings will include a bilingual element to fully represent Puerto Rican linguistic diversity. Featuring four writers, moderated and introduced by editors of forthcoming Puerto Rican anthologies from *The Common* and *Puerto Rico en mi corazón.* With Andrés Cerpa, Francisco Font-Acevedo, Carmen Graciela Díaz, Joey de Jesus and Carina del Valle Schorske.</p> <p>This is a Brooklyn Book Festival Book Ends event.</p> Brooklyn Public Library - Leonard Library MM/DD/YYYY 60