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April is Poetry Month : Mariposa

8:40 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · language|literature|Women · Comments Off

24 Apr 2009

Today’s poet is fellow NY hermana Mariposa.

April is National Poetry Month : Gabriela N. Lemmons

10:46 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Books|literature|Women · Comments Off

17 Apr 2009

primera-pagina-front-cover Today’s poema by Gabriela N. Lemmons comes from the libro Primera Pagina : Poetry from the Latino Heartland published by the Latino Writers Collective.

Sin Calzon

I want to roam
the streets at night
pantiless
loose
when only the sidewalk
watches
stay up all night
read your diary
broadcast your secrets
on the 10 o’ clock news

memoir
of a serial bore
you kill me with your consonants
the way those r’s
roll off your tongue
like leather
in those shoes at the foot of your bed…

There’s more to the poem pero you really should buy the book.

April is National Poetry Month : Noemi Martinez

8:34 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · literature|Women · Comments Off

16 Apr 2009

Today’s poema comes from an incredible media maker, activist, mami, blogger, poeta, Noemi Martinez of Hermana, Resist.

Here it is recounted
Noemi

synthesis

we get these folks
you know the type,
they have the feminist fist
tattooed on their ankles
want to visit my community
with their “poorest in the nation” shit
their novelty right now
is mexicans in the colonias.
My valley, my people
and they want to see
the real deal
the real colonias,
you know,
with the really really
poor conditions,
“where it floods & they don’t have electricity”
my valley, my people
and they come w/
notepad, pencil in hand
sic-sicing at our
mexican men & their
macho macho ways
you know, my people
& want to see
“real” victims
and look at that kid
no shoes, shit
let’s get some tequila on the other side
& “authentic” food but how can you eat this?
my people, my valley
you & your fucking rainbow
stickers& yr
world eat fish mentality
and fuck i’m not
even religious or catolica
but leave them w/ their virgen, my Tonantzin
appeared to my juan diego, my people
and lets go for a site
visit, let’s see
the colonias
you know-giving me
facts I know by memory,
numbers I don’t need to hear
because it’s my valley, my people

*yes, yes taken out of context.
Yes yes, you will bring funds, $, awareness.
Yes yes I work well with the enemy.

Celebrating the Latina Mujer This Friday in NYC

9:23 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York|Women · Comments Off

23 Mar 2009

There is a saying que la patria es una mujer : that homeland is a woman and given the strong leadership role that Latina women have taken up in various struggles, it’s time that people step back to give some of these mujeres some props.

This Womyn’s History Month, join The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign as we honor the contributions of Boricua/Latina Women to the Puerto Rican INDEPENDENCE Movement ¡QUE VIVA LA MUJER!

Recipients of the Doña Adelfa Vera Award for 2009:
Yasmin Hernandez, Artist/Activist/ Educator
Teresita “Lah Tere” Ayala, Poet/Activist/ Rebel Diaz
Claudia de la Cruz, Pastor of La Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas/UCC

Mistress of Ceremony:
Haydee Morales, Casa Atabex Ache Co-Founder

Keynote Speaker:
Prisionera, Poet/Activist/ Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico

Sample Work Presentation:
Our Women, Our Struggle (working title) is a 70-minute long documentary that chronicles the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary – Isabel Rosado, — who dedicated her life to the Puerto Rican Independence movement and has become a symbol of the island’s patriotism. Other women such as Lolita Lebron and Dylcia Pagan will also be highlighted. All three women were subjected to FBI surveillance and each spent many years in prison as a consequence of their radical political actions or as some might refer “terrorist activities”.
Melissa Montero is a Latina filmmaker living in Queens, New York of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian heritage. She has co-produced and directed a non-broadcast ten-minute promotional video/documentary on Casa Atabex Ache, a non-profit organization that does healing and transformation work for women of color.

Poetry by:
Mariposa and Prisionera

Hand crafts and Natural Products:
OLGA AYALA HANDICRAFTS (HECHO A MANO)
Botanicafe (Lourdes Garcia)

FRIDAY MARCH 27, 2009 AT 7PM!
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 521 W126th St.
Between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway Take the 1 train W125th St.
Suggested donation: $5 (no one will be turned away)
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED!
For more information contact ProLibertad: 718-601-4751 * www.ProLibertadWeb. com

Poetas Invade Nueva York

5:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|language|Latin America|literature|New York City · Comments Off

7 Oct 2006

poster%20poesia%20nyc%204WEB.0.jpg New York City is under invasion and there is no better invasion than a poetic one. Today marks day one of The 3rd Annual Encuentro de Nueva Poesía, a weeklong series of events throughout NYC that brings together written and spoken word artists from various corners of the planet.

The Encuentro has two successful antecedents. The first time the Festival “Poetas en Nueva York” was carried out was in April 2004, in honor of Pedro Pietri, and over 20 poets participated, for three days, in events at Nuyorican Poets’ Café in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The second iteration, where the name Encuentro de Nueva Poesía was coined, was celebrated in October 2005. It then included the participation of over 40 poets from diverse backgrounds, among them residents of New York who were originally from countries like Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic. It also counted with the presence of a delegation of Puerto Rican poets and artists who traveled to New York City solely for the purpose of participating in the events. The Encounter took place in diverse settings in Upper and Lower Manhattan, as well as the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, and concluded with the publication of a poetry anthology with the artists’ works.

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