Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
VivirLatino’s Maegan la Mala at Queens Museum Mañana
9:21 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|literature|New York City · Comments Off
18 Apr 2009
Yours truly will be at the Queens Museum of Art tomorrow from 1 to 6 pm, as part of the Poetas en NY contingent celebrating Latino authors and NYC Immigrants Week.
One of the things I love about the Queens Museum ( I was just there yesterday), is that they always host events and exhibits that are really representative of the diversity of Queens and feature poc/woc artists. Oh and it’s in my hood meaning I can walk there from casa mala!
Now I’m off to find something sort of family friendly to read cuz I’m not usually family friendly.
April is National Poetry Month : Gabriela N. Lemmons
10:46 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Books|literature|Women · Comments Off
17 Apr 2009
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 newsmemoir
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 2009Today’s poema comes from an incredible media maker, activist, mami, blogger, poeta, Noemi Martinez of Hermana, Resist.
Here it is recounted
Noemisynthesis
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.
April is National Poetry Month : El Reverendo Pedro Pietri
6:23 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Bilingualism|literature|Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
15 Apr 2009No words can describe Pedro Pietri‘s work and his influence on many a poet, myself included. El padre of the Nuyorican poetry movement, political, funny and as Rican as they come.
April is National Poetry Month : Delmira Agustini
12:00 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · literature|Uruguay|Women · Comments Off
14 Apr 2009
Today’s poem comes from Uruguyan poet Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914).
Explosión
Si la vida es amor, bendita sea!
Quiero más vida para amar! Hoy siento
Que no valen mil años de la idea
Lo que un minuto azul del sentimiento.Mi corazon moria triste y lento…
Hoy abre en luz como una flor febea;
La vida brota como un mar violento
Donde la mano del amor golpea!Hoy partio hacia la noche, triste, fría
Rotas las alas mi melancolía;
Como una vieja mancha de dolor
En la sombra lejana se deslíe…
Mi vida toda canta, besa, ríe!
Mi vida toda es una boca en flor!
For English keep reading
Poetry y Cultura for Your Soul at Capicu’s 2nd Anniversary Showcase in NYC
11:14 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Culture|Events|Lo Que Hay|New York City · Comments Off
25 Mar 2009
We do lots of politics here at VivirLatino pero the cultural is the political and each feed into each other. Which is why if you are in the NYC area this Friday, you should come through to Brooklyn to celebrate Capicu’s Poetry & Cultural Showcase and not just I’m gonna be there.
What do you get when you mix a trendy lounge, mojitos, a dynamic host, visual artists and some of the hottest poets & comedians in NYC with a crowd that is ready to feed their souls and then party the night away…
CAPICU POETRY & CULTURAL SHOWCASE @ NOTICE LOUNGE IN BROOKLYN!
Friday, March 27
7 pm
Notice Lounge & Cafe
198 Union Ave (across from 90th Precinct)
Brooklyn, NYJoin Capicu Poetry & Cultural Showcase as we celebrate their second anniversary at Brooklyn’s own Notice Lounge.
Here’s just part of our Special Line-Up! (Confirmed):
Flaco Navaja- multitalented performer that has graced the stages as a feature of Nuyorican Poets Cafe, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and is also the lead vocalist for Boricua Roots music group YERBABUENA
Americo Casiano- Award-winning and Founding Poetc/o PRSUN Radio:
Americo Casiano Jr. is one of the original Nuyorican poets and a key founding activist for the Nuyorican arts movement. He has promoted, produced and coordinated numerous readings and performance series for key arts and cultural organizations in New York City. Among them: El Taller/galleria Boricua (The Puerto Rican Workshop, Inc.), El Museo Del Barrio, Inc., New Rican Village, Inc. the Bronx Council on the Arts and the NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc.Maegan “La Mamita Mala” Ortiz- Managing Editor of VivirLatino.com
A Queens born and bred Nuyorican mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, blogger, and all around rabble rouser. Her words and opinions have been featured in the Washington Post, Latina Magazine, The New York Daily News, and National Public Radio.
George Diaz- Comedian- Creator- Producer- Director
As founder of Latino Laughter, Llegamos Live and Llegamos Radio, George has worked with many of today Latin luminaries in the entertainment industry. Through the years, he has collaborated with Daddy Yankee, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Frankie Negron, Brenda K. Starr, Ulysses, Terrero, Paul Rodriguez, and Dave Chappelle. As producer of Llegamos Live, George has launched the careers of many of his former and current Llegamos Players, but he is humble enough to only remind them of this fact daily, George Diaz is firmly committed to making the world a better place- for Latinos. Oh, and non-Latinos as well.
More info very soon!
You helped us build Capicu…it is only right you come celebrate with us.
More Special Invited Guests will be announced soon…
As always we will have special giveaways and lots of surprises…get there early…afterparty included with your $10 admission.
This is double VivirLatino event as one of the organizers/hosts has been a guest blogger here, Sofrito For Your Soul founder, George “Urban Jibaro” Torres. George and I also shared a mentor, so I think a night like Friday was meant to be.
Hope to see you there.
Shameless Self- Promotion : Maegan la Mala Spits Poetry Tonite in Queens, NYC
1:42 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bilingualism|Culture|Events|language|New York City|VivirLatino · Comments Off
29 Sep 2008
If my posts have taken on a poetic quality, you will please be excusing la Mala. Here in NYC we are in the middle of the 5to Encuentro de Poesia “Poetas en Nueva York
Tonight at the Centro Humanista de la Culturas, 76-11 37ave Jackson Heights,Queens, NYC at 6pm, I am honored and blessed to be a part of the Noche de mujeres, sharing the stage and spitting palabras with
-Irma Galido
-Claudia Barragán
-Daniel Reyes y Nilko Andreas
Come through if you can.
Poetas en NY bring a Happy Mob to Union Square
8:05 am By Maegan La Mala · language|New York City · Comments Off
27 Sep 2008
Today a mob of poets will descend upon Union Square in NYC, sending their words through the streets of and using verses will bailout the souls of a money driven city.
Today begins the Quinto Encuentro “Poetas en Nueva York” and if you go to some events, you may just find la Mala.
For more information visit the Poetas en NY website or just ask.
First Poem Since…
6:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|New York|New York City|Palestine|Politics|race · Comments Off
11 Sep 2008I’m feeling a lot like Mala today, I just don’t have any more words to talk about 9-11. That does not mean, however, that there isn’t still a storm of unnameable feelings hidden away that I don’t want to share. So I’ll leave my speaking to Suheir Hammad–the one commentary about 9-11 that I feel said everything that needed to be said.
Save the Dates : 5th Encuentro de Poesia en NYC
11:54 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|Events|language|literature|Music|New York City|theatre · Comments Off
10 Sep 2008
Need a reason to come to NYC? In about two weeks, poets and other artists, predominantly Latino and Latin American, will descend upon three New York boroughs for the 5th Encuentro de Poetas en NY.
Yours truly, Maegan la Mala, is a featured poet at one of the events and will attend as many events as I can (Before I was Blogger, activist, and Mami, I was a poet).
Hope to see some of you there.
Hola!
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