Becoming Julia de Burgos now translated into Spanish
Becoming Julia de Burgos now translated into Spanish
Adapted from University of Illinois Press
sx managing editor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon has been translated into Spanish by Isabel Zapata. Becoming Julia de Burgos was the first book-length study of the poet written in English. Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940.
sx editorial committee member Andil Gosine wins award for first book
We congratulate our editorial committee member Andil Gosine for receiving the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award. His winning book, Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean, will be published in September 2021 by Duke University Press.
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario interviewed by Poesía en acción
In anticipation of her translation of Boat People by Mayra Santos-Febres, Small Axe managing editor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario was interviewed for Poesía en acción's micro-interview series.
sx 64 is now available!
sx 64 is now available!
Includes essays by Yohann C. Ripert, Katey Castellano and Sarah Phillips Casteel. Editorial committee member Aaron Kamugisha guest-edits our special section "On Caribbean Intellectual History," which features essays by Anne Eller, Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi, Margo Groenewoud, Monique Bedasse and Marlene L. Daut. The work of St. Martin audiovisual artist Deborah Jack graces our front cover and her series "what is the value of what if it doesn't quench our thirst for . . ." features as our visual essay.
sx62's "Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico" receives honorable mention
Adriana María Garriga-López's article, "Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico" has received honorable mention for the 2021 Blanca G. Silvestrini Award for Outstanding Article in Puerto Rican Studies. The article appeared in issue 64 of Small Axe.
Read the full article on Duke University Press' website and the abstract below:
Echarpalantismo: Neoliberal Subjectivities in the Colony of Puerto Rico
Date: Friday, April 30th
Time: 3:00 pm EST
Earth, World, Ethics: Conversations in Black and Caribbean Studies
For "Earth, World, Ethics: Conversations in Black and Caribbean Studies," the hosts asked participants to consider several thematics and questions, which the hosts locate in Black Critical Theory, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Caribbean Poetics. How do we conceive of various formulations of disposability, life, nature, and the earth, against the apocalyptic tendencies in the discourses of the Anthropocene? What do we do with the category of the human vis-à-vis the senses—the senses and blackness, the senses and indigeneity, the senses and the elements?
Rosamond S. King to celebrate new collection with book launch party
Date: Friday, April 9th
Time: 6:30 pm EST
Poet and sx salon creative editor Rosamond S. King will celebrate the launch of her new book, All the Rage, at a special edition of Gibney’s Living Gallery. RSVP here.
Off the Page: Julia Alvarez & Vanessa Pérez-Rosario in conversation
Date: Tuesday, April 20th
Time: 7pm EST
From the Kupferberg Center for the Arts website:
OFF THE PAGE: Conversations with Writers is a Queens College series produced by Kupferberg Center for the Arts, the Department of English, the Provost’s Office, and the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. Curated by QC professor, author and Small Axe managing editor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.
CuCa3: Cuir Caribbean Voices/Voces Queer del Caribe
Date: Wednesday, March 31st
Time: 6:30 pm EST
From LACS Stony Brook: