Posts Tagged ‘Charlie Vazquez’
Charlie Vázquez’s bilingual (English/Spanish) poetry collection, Meditations/Meditaciones – Bronx/Salsa is an impressive one for its varied subject matter rooted in three basic themes: place, identity and the senses that tie us there.
The place is the Bronx but also places left behind and returned to as outsider like Puerto Rico. The identity Vázquez invokes in his poems is that of a son – not just to a father he is estranged from but also the son of multiple islands from which he is also estranged. The senses are physical ones. with poems like The Dance of Life, invoking Taino ancestry and spelling – we hear the origins and evolution of history through Rican/Cuban music and those who made it and move to it. Some of the characters are real living beings. Others are spirits.
The theme of sound and motion permeates the vast collection.
I was really struck by the number of pieces in the collection and the accompanying album list that included classics of salsa. Before I began delving into the poems I wondered if I should use the album list as a sort of soundtrack by which to read the collection. I opted not to after finding it difficult to sense the rhythm of each individual poem when it was competing with Celia Cruz or another salsa great.
HISPANIC PANIC!: PUNK – an evening of Latin words and strange music
10:25 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|Linking Latinos|literature|Lo Que Hay|Music|New York City · Comments Off
2 Mar 2011
Wednesday, March 30th,
7:30PM – 9:30PM
At Nowhere – 322 E 14th St (1st/2nd)21+, FREE
New York’s most avant-garde Latino reading series peeks over the edge this month with a reading dedicated to PUNK and the various meanings it has come to embrace. As a popular music movement in the Mexican “desmadre” scene and as a very top-secret phenomenon in Cuba, punk music has seduced Latinos all around the globe.
Grab a beer, kick back, and listen to the peculiar perspectives of Dan Lopez, J Skye Cabrera, Sam J Miller, Charlie Vázquez, Roberto Plena Irizarry and the inimitable East Village performance art originator Ms. Penny Arcade herself for an unforgettable evening of words and music. Try to beat that!
Facebook event page: http://tinyurl.com/6fspjup
Information: http://www.firekingpress.com
Image Credit: Antony Zito
This Wednesday in NYC : HISPANIC PANIC!, TRANSFORMATIONS
3:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · Culture|Events|GLBT|Linking Latinos|New York City · 1 Comment
21 Feb 2011HISPANIC PANIC!, New York City’s most avant-garde and experimental Latino reading series, has been featured on CUNY-TV’s Spanish-language culture show “Nueva York,” as well as in the Daily News. Shrugging off the icy world around us, six Latino/a writers and poets are set to share their stories of change and metamorphosis—sexually, artistically, and spiritually.
Readers include the NYC-area poets and writers Ema Lia, Tomas Rafael Montalvo, Consuelo Arias, Brittany Maldonado, and Miguel Angeles. Our featured guest reader will be novelist and writer Vanessa “La Loba” Martir, who is the curator of the successful La Loba reading series in Soho. Come experience the edge of the queer/Latino avant-garde for yourself!
Cheap drinks, great music, and even better people.
Organized and hosted by Charlie Vázquez
Info: http://www.firekingpress.com/
When : Wednesday, February 23 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Where : Nowhere 322 E 14th St (1st/2nd) – 21+ – free
NYC : Hispanic PANIC! January 26, Roots
5:37 pm By Maegan La Mala · Culture|Events|New York City · Comments Off
11 Jan 2011HISPANIC PANIC!, New York City’s avant-garde and experimental Latino reading series, has been featured on CUNY-TV’s Spanish-language culture show “Nueva York,” as well as in the Daily News. Starting the New Year on a nostalgic note—come hear and see five writers and poets discuss their “roots” via creative memoir, poetry, and fiction.
Wednesday, January 26 · 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Nowhere
322 E 14th St – btwn 1st/2nd (L train to 1st or walk from Union Sq, 2 blocks)
New York, NY
Readers include Dominican Republic-born poet and writer Jimmy Lam, Cuban-born poet and artist Orlando Ferrand, and J Skye Cabrera of the NYC Latina Writers Group. Our featured guest readers will be PANIC! reading series veteran Tod Crouch and Jani Bomba Rose of the highly-acclaimed, Bronx-based “Acentos Review and Poetry Showcase.”
Organized and hosted by Charlie Vázquez.
P.S. This is by far one of the most fun and well curated reading series that I have had the honor of participating in. Support if you can! If you can’t, spread the word.
Lunes Libro : Best of PANIC! Book Available Now
12:36 pm By Maegan La Mala · Books|GLBT|literature|New York City · Comments Off
13 Dec 2010
Regular readers of VivirLatino will know that not only am I Editor here but I am also a poet. For two years now, I have proudly participated in the Hispanic PANIC! Reading series, housed at Nowhere here in NYC and and curated by author and friend to VL, Charlie Vázquez.
Charlie has done such an amazing job at bringing together talented, diverse word artists of and for the queer community that he decided to put some of their work, as heard during the literary series, in a book!
Released just in time for the holidays, the anthology features over thirty new voices and yes, mine is included.
You can get your own copy and one for someone you love here.
Hispanic PANIC! Unleashes It’s Talent in NYC
6:39 am By Maegan La Mala · Culture|GLBT|literature|New York City · 1 Comment
1 Oct 2010
I needed to take a day off from VivirLatino because Hispanic PANIC! was so good. Charlie Vazquez is a curator of writers and souls and he worked his magic again on Wednesday night when he hosted Hispanic PANIC! at Nowhere.
Cristy Road jumped the evening off by reading an excerpt from her soon to be released graphic novel, SPIT AND PASSION, a coming of age story unlike any other. I cannot wait to read the finished product and learn more about how a queer Cubana in Miami obsessed with Green Day comes to terms with it all.
LATINA PANIC! Tonite in NYC
8:57 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|GLBT|literature|Poetry · Comments Off
28 Jul 2010Charlie Vázquez, not only is a talented writer, but he knows how to bring together other talented writers and put on a thought provoking and entertaining evening.
He does it again tonight, Wednesday, July 28, at Nowhere in the East Village at 8PM. Nowhere is at 322 E 14th St (between 1st and 2nd). Charlie will be presenting Alicia Anabel Santos, J Skye Cabrera, Gabrielle Rivera, Meriam Rodriguez, Sherisse Alvarez, Nivea Castro and featured reader Karen Jaime.
Make sure you stay for a little bit of charanga, salsa, son y meneo after. Mala promises it will be well worth it.
Artist Spotlight: Charlie Vázquez
8:56 pm By BiancaLaureano · Uncategorized · Comments Off
2 Nov 2009Our good friend, activist, and writer Charlie Vázquez has been the focus of a new media project by several NYU students. Charlie is the host of the PANIC! series, where VL’s own Maegan has been featured, and in this short he discusses his experiences as a gay Latino man being raised in the Bronx, how his writing is a result of his environment, and what he has learned through his experimentation with his craft.
The film was created by Acacia Beach, Michael Wright, and Rahm Kim.
To find out more about Charlie, the final PANIC! of 2009, or to read his musings and interviews on current Latino literature, visit his blog.
Hispanic Panic Parte Dos Coming Next Week
11:18 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|GLBT|literature|New York City · 1 Comment
18 May 2009
I had so much fun at the first Hispanic Panic and the event was such a success that it’s happening again. I hope that those in the NYC area can come through and support the amazing work of Latino writers/artists.
NOWHERE and Charlie Vázquez present: HISPANIC PANIC!
An evening with six Latino LGBT/feminist writers, poets and activists.
Wednesday, May 27th 2009 , 8PM sharp, 21+, FreeNew York City’s only ongoing monthly queer reading series gets frisky in May, with HISPANIC PANIC! Host Charlie Vázquez has gathered a brazen roster of Latino/a literary talent, and with an LGBT/feminist slant that is sure to shock and reveal. Join him and literary ninjas Karen Jaime, Charles Rice-González, Cristina Izaguirre, Maegan ‘La Mamita Mala’ Ortiz and special guest, scholar and writer Larry La Fountain, who will be joining us from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to promote his new book Blue Fingernails. These six writers will be presenting writing chronicling the politics and desire of contemporary New York City queerness and much, much more.
NOWHERE is located at 322 E 14h St (btwn 1st/2nd Aves)
Gracias for being a Freak with Me
12:50 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events|language|literature|New York City · Comments Off
29 Jan 2009
I’m running a little slow today because I’m tired and yes, a little hungover, pero it was all worth it. Last night’s HISPANIC PANIC! reading at Nowhere,NYC hosted by Charlie Vazquez, was the most fun I have had in a long time.
I read two older poems and a new poema en tres partes called @ndo aka Twitterputeando/Fucking Statehood. Charlie Vazquez read a story about juegos/jugos de pelotas. Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Executive Director of BAAD!, read from his forthcoming novel Chulito, and Karen Jaime spit poetic love to Dominican Yols, drag kings and hope. We were quite a mix as was the audience that came through and had nothing but love.
Plus I met some wonderful new amigos, drank wine, and danced to Cuban music.
I think I’m going to try and make these readings regularly and so should you. The next one is in February, which is billed GENDER PANIC! and March (GIRL PANIC!), which will feature female erotica writers.
Just tell them Patty Peña sent you.
Hola!
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