HISPANIC PANIC!: TRANSFORMATIONS reading
Nowhere Bar NYC
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What: HISPANIC PANIC!: TRANSFORMATIONS reading
When: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Where: Nowhere (322 E 14th St - btwn 1st/2nd ) L train to 1st Avenue
Time: 8PM, Free, 21+ only
HISPANIC PANIC!: TRANSFORMATIONS
HISPANIC 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!
Organized and hosted by Charlie Vázquez
Info: http://www.firekingpress.com
The writers:
Miguel Angeles
(bio pending)
Consuelo Arias
Consuelo Arias is a professor, writer, translator and performera born in New York City to Gallego parents, though raised and educated in a Cuban-Puerto Rican milieu. She holds a PH.D in Hispanic Literatures from Princeton University, where she specialized in modern and contemporary poetry. She has published critical essays and presented papers on the construction of the queer subject in Spanish and Spanish American literatures. Consuelo has studied performance with Holly Hughes, Lois Weaver and Susana Cook and presented comic monologues at Bluestockings and the Nuyorican Poets’ Café. She also played the role of the Queen in Cook’s The Idiot King at Dixon Place and WOW Theatre. She also has completed the (Spanish to English) translation of Dionisio Cañas’ El gran criminal, a book of prose poems in the fashion of Baudelaire with a queer twist which she hopes to publish soon.
Ema Lia
Emalia is a passionate Puerto Rican who was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and raised in the heart of Spanish Harlem. She has a degree in Environmental Science and has worked with organizations such as Rocking the Boat, Bronx River Restoration Project, and The Student Conservation Association. She is also an Alumni of Americorps. A lover of words since she could speak, she took first place in a national writers competition at the age of 9. She will be reading Bloodlines,” from her upcoming book “Mi vida en poesía” for the very first time.
Brittany Maldonado
(bio pending)
Vanessa Martir
(bio pending)
Tomas Rafael Montalvo
Tomas Montalvo was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and raised in the South Bronx. He’s been writing since the age of 12 and loves performing spoken word and writing poetry. He was recently published for the first time in “The Best of Panic” (Fireking, 2010)
Charlie Vázquez
Charlie Vázquez is a radical Bronx-bred writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction and essays have been published in various anthologies, such as the iconoclastic volumes Queer and Catholic (Taylor & Francis, 2007) and Best Gay Love Stories: NYC (Alyson, 2006). His writing has also appeared in print and online publications such as The Advocate, Chelsea Clinton News, New York Press, and Ganymede Journal. Charlie hosts a monthly reading series called PANIC! (in the East Village), which focuses on unusual and original fiction and poetry. He is a former contributor to the Village Voice’s Naked City blog and a retired experimental musician and photographer. His second novel Contraband, was published by Rebel Satori Press in spring 2010, and his third, Corazón, is wrapping up for future publication. He is also working on a short story collection and co-editing a gay Latino fiction anthology with novelist and cultural producer Charles Rice-González.