Michael Huffmaster William Carlos Williams and Bibliotherapy Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 As a scholar of German (which is to say, not English or American) literature, I have what I would call an average educated North American’s familiarity with the poetry of William Carlos Williams. That is to say, I know the two…
(Foto por Jonathan Cohen.) I flew from San Juan to Mayagüez on 2024 Valentine’s Day to attend the three-day conference of the William Carlos Williams Society, hosted by the Universidad de Puerto Rico there. It was a thrill to fly along the island’s north shore in a small plane and see from above the blue ocean with its white ribbon of surf, then briefly over the lush green mountains just before landing. This was not my first time in Puerto Rico but my first time visiting its western coast and Mayagüez.
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera Medicinal Poetry: Words, Places, Code-Switching, and Healing in William Carlos Williams’s Language Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 Upon contextual reflection on William Carlos Williams’s connections to Mayagüez, his family links to Judaism, and a period-specific look at the neighborhood where his mother lived on Calle Méndez Vigo, in this paper I…
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Natalia Bustos, Michael Huffmaster, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Sara Gavrell Ortiz, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega, mary leonard, Tope Bada, Jorge Rodríguez Acevedo, Jason Weiss.
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera Algarabía: La canción de Cenex hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyaa (Graywolf Press, 2025), extractos Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 Algarabía: La canción de Cenex hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyaa (Graywolf Press, 2025) es una epopeya que sigue el viaje de Cenex, un ser trans que narra su…
Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega Journeys through Dual Homespaces: Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 Diasporic Puerto Rican writers have entered a new century of artistic production and critical analyses that highlight the myriad ways in which authors of Puerto Rican descent (born on the island or in the…
mary leonard ¿qué hacer con el dolor? the uses of silence, images, words Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 I think of how it is possible to respond to collective and personal traumas caused by, among other things, the repeated shocks to the system of economic and energetic crises, of natural disasters, of violence,…
Tope Bada The Mysterious Beauty of a Birdsong! Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 The cacophony of sounds you hear in the forest are often distinct and unique but the loudest of all in this diffused symphony on verdant tapestry often belongs to birds. I have often wondered while growing up in my agrarian…
Fotos por Jorge Rodríguez Acevedo.
Conocerme entre estas líneas o es más entre mis propias palabras, ha sido todo un proceso de deconstrucción a lo largo de mi vida; hoy me reconozco como una caminante de las orillas y una fiel creyente de que los mundos otros son posibles. Pero llegar hasta este punto no ha sido fácil, encontrarme con mis propias contradicciones y cuestionarme acerca de mi vida personal, vocacional y académica ha sido el reto de mi vida.