is a Dominican and Puerto Rican Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a 2020 Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner. She is also a BRIO award winner with fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, Nalac Leadership Institute, Communitas America, and VONA. With advanced degrees in education and an MFA in Performance Studies, this initiated priestess in Lukumi and Palo celebrates womanhood and honors cultural rituals. She’s a three-time International Latino Book Award winner who authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), and Homage To The Warrior Women (2012). Through Robleswrites Productions, she created Lalibreta.online (2021), The Abuela Stories Project (2016), and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement, and The Muse (2017). Her work has been featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center, Smithsonian Institute- Museum of the American Indian, Pen America World Voices Festival, Pregones Theater, and her poetry appears online in Poets.org, Tribes.org, The Quarry at Split This Rock, The Common, 92Y.org, Centro Voices Letras Literary Journal, and NACLA.org. Peggy’s poetry has also been published in several anthologies including The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020), and What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). For more, please visit Robleswrites.com.

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What Most Intrigues Me In Poetics Right Now

What most intrigues me in poetics is risky, unapologetic storytelling in form, language, and content that doesn't cater to a limited status quo but instead radically claims and celebrates what is most native to its core. Speak to me of barrios, baddies, and bateys in an amalgamation of reclaimed mother tongue and found language. Talk to me about the undercurrent of your people and places while celebrating your multiple identities and flying all your flags. Ground your poems in true space and sound that doesn't want to fit in but instead wants to create a fearless body of work to be read aloud to finger snaps, head nods, and an ah-ha!

is a poet, installation, and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México, whose work centers on migration, Black aliveness, and the radical trans*imagination. Alan is the author of Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020), a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, and to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020). They earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and is an incoming assistant professor of trans* ethnic studies and race and resistance studies at San Francisco State University.

What Most Intrigues Me In Poetics Right Now

Lately, I have been drawn to poetry that isn't afraid to take up space :: fill the page :: rip the page :: betray the written letter. This is to say, I am not afraid of poems that utilize images, redaction, maps, negative space, citational practices, multiple languages, numbers, or line drawings. I am also interested in poems that challenge what it means to be in the world whether it be through a haiku, contrapuntal, sestina, or a new form, full or fragmented, typed or handwritten, etc.

(Mayagüez, 1985) Poeta, traductor, y editor. Sus reconocimientos incluyen el nombramiento como Poeta Laureado de la ciudad de Filadelfia, el Premio Nuevas Voces, el Premio Literario Lambda, el inaugural Premio Ambroggio, la beca de Poeta Laureado y una beca del National Endowment for the Arts para la traducción de la poesía de su abuelo, Sotero Rivera Avilés. Es el autor de seis poemarios que han sido semifinalistas y finalistas para el National Book Award, el Pen America Open Book Award y el CLMP Firecracker Award. Fue el coeditor de dos antologías de poesía puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press, 2019) y La piel del arrecife (La Impresora, 2022), múltiples folios y la revista literaria The Wanderer. En 2016, junto a varixs integrantes fundó el Yerbamala Collective, un grupo dedicado a la creación de hechizos poéticos antifascistas. En el 2022, participará en el Whitney Museum of American Art en no existe mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, la primera exposición académica enfocada en el arte puertorriqueño organizada por un museo grande de los Estados Unidos en casi medio siglo, cuyo título proviene de un verso del poemario while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds, LLC, 2019). Obtuvo un Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania y vive, enseña y escribe en Puerto Rico. Con una beca de tres años de la Fundación Mellon, trabaja como investigador y supervisor del equipo de traducción para El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/ The Puerto Rican Literature Project (PRLP), un portal digital bilingüe y de libre acceso que usuarios pueden utilizar para conocer y enseñar la poesía puertorriqueña.

What Most Intrigues Me In Poetics Right Now

I'm mostly looking for a poetics that is attentive to Jack Spicer's notion that "a poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer." This includes poetry that indulges in language as world-making and translation as a poetic mode, and is entrenched in the radical potentialities of the mundane.