Roque Raquel Salas Rivera Reads from the Speculative Trans Epic "Algarabía"
Puerto Rican award-winning poet reading from latest book
Location
Online
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera Reads from the Speculative Trans Epic "Algarabía" – Online Event
Date & Time
April 21, 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Description
Join students from SPAN 421: Latin American Environmental Literature
& Cultural Production and GWST 341: Indigenous and Decolonial
Feminisms for a special reading on award-winning Roque Raquel Salas
Rivera's latest book, Algarabía (Gray Wolf Press, 2025).
About the event: The event is virtual,
via WebEx, please use link on this event page to join. This event will
also be fully bilingual. Open to all!
Event is hosted by Dr. Thania Muñoz and Dr. María Célleri, and coordinate by the Latin American Feminisms Faculty Working Group.
Sponsored by the Dresher Center
for the Humanities, the Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies, and the
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communications
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera es un poeta, educador y traductor puertorriqueño de experiencia trans. Sus reconocimientos incluyen el nombramiento como Poeta Laureado de la ciudad de Filadelfia, el Premio Nuevas Voces, el premio literario Lambda y el inaugural Premio Ambroggio. Coeditó de las antologías Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous, 2019) y La piel del arrecife: Antología de poesía trans puertorriqueña (La Impresora, 2023). Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025), su octava colección, es una épica especulativa trans. Roque Raquel vive y crea en una urbanización riopedrense y se desempeña como Catedrático Auxiliar del la Universidad de Puerto Rico.Roque Raquel Salas Rivera a poet, editor, educator, and translation of trans experience. His honors include being named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the Premio Nuevas Voces, a Lambda literary award, and the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. He has coedited the anthologies Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press, 2019) and La piel del arrecife: Antología de poesía trans puertorriqueña (La Impresora & Atarraya Cartonera, 2023. The author of seven poetry books, Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025), his eighth collection, is a speculative trans epic. Roque Raquel lives Puerto Rico, where he currently teaches in the College of General Studies at the University of Puerto Rico.
This event is open for full participation by all individuals
regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other
protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the
University's nondiscrimination policy.
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