Latin literature has a special place in Latin culture. It’s a popular cultural form and a place where the Bolivian Lament is expressed (the people’s unending desire for justice). Many Latins can recite poetry by heart.
World Poetry Day
UNITED NATIONS CELEBRATION
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings (UNESCO)
Literary Festivals
Black Comic Book Festival 2020
Friday-Saturday, January 17-18, 2020
SCHOMBURG CENTER
Harlem, NYC
National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo
Sat, November 23, 2019
CONCOURSE, The Bronx ~ The Fair weaves handicrafts and poetry into the fabric of Puerto Rican community at Hostos College
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Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2019
Wednesday-Sunday, July 24 – August 11, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & CONCOURSE, THE BRONX ~ Lincoln Center’s summer festival includes African, Cuban, Dominican, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, & Spanish music, dance, film and word for FREE
PEN World Voices Festival 2019
May 6-14 & 19, 2019 | International literary festival | The world’s writers and thinkers gather in New York City to talk and read and perform
New Yorker Festival 2018
October 5 – 7, 2018
Friday – Sunday
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African, French, Italian & Mexican thinkers
NY Art Book Fair 2018 ~ the world of books
FAIR (FREE)
Friday – Sunday
September 21 – 23, 2018
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TICKETED PREVIEW
Thursday, September 20, 2018
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MoMA PS1
Long Island City, Queens
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Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Jewish, Mexican, Portuguese and Puerto Rican books.
La Casita Sings the Poetry and Music of Our Communities
LINCOLN CENTER & PREGONES THEATER, Sat-Sun, Aug 4-5, 2018 ~ La Casita gives voice to the poetry and music of our communities
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Literary New York City
Instituto Cervantes
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
Spanish government language school and cultural center has NYC’s largest Spanish-language library and hosts talks, exhibitions, screenings and performances
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Hispanic Society
Appointment only during renovations
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NYC ~ This research library and museum has the most important Spanish art collection outside of Spain
King Juan Carlos Center
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC
Study the histories, politics and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world at King Juan Carlos Center at New York University
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Schomburg Center
Monday-Saturday
HARLEM, NYC
This library of African culture grew out of the literary collection of Puerto Rican collector Arturo Alfonso Schomburg during the Harlem Renaissance
Morgan Library
MURRAY HILL, Tue-Sun, antique book museum ~ JP Morgan’s home is now a museum of historic manuscripts, early books and old master drawings and prints
Latin Authors
Luís de Camões
Thursday, June 10, 2021
LISBON, PORTUGAL
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The Portuguese Shakespeare, author of Portugal’s national epic poem “Os Lusíadas” about Vasco de Gama’s sea route to India, died on June 10, 1580.
Remember Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rican Poet
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO ~ The renowned Puerto Rican poet was born on February 17, 1914.
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Carlos Fuentes
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
PANAMA CITY, Panama
Mexico’s most celebrated novelist, author of “The Death of Artemio Cruz” (1962), “Terra Nostra” (1975), and “The Old Gringo” (1985) was born on November 11, 1928
Gabriel García Márquez
Friday, March 6, 2020
ARACATACA, Magdalena, Colombia
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The Nobel Prize-winning father of Magical Realism was born on March 6, 1927.
Renowned poet Rina Soldevilla to read at Peruvian-American Association
A master of enchanting stories set in the Inca heartland.
Peruvian-American Association
Midtown East, Manhattan
Thursday, April 12, 2018
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Laurie Hernandez is a star Gymnast, dancer, author and beyond
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2017 Athlete of the Year
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Mario Vargas Llosa
March 28, 1936 ~ LLosa was born in Arequipa, Peru.
CELEBRATE
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Latin Books
Aldo Sessa
Photography exhibition by Argentina’s legendary photographer, the most famous documentarian of Argentine culture and the Argentine cowboys.
Argentine Consulate
Midtown, Manhattan
April 11 – 26, 2018
Ferdinand
OPENED December 15, 2017
CLOSED January 18, 2018
Arte de La Borinqueña is an exhibition about the Puerto Rican superhero
Oct 4, 2017-Jan 6, 2018
HUNTS POINT, The Bronx ~ The art of the first Puerto Rican superhero at Casita Maria Gallery
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Pati Jinich “Mexican Today”
“Mexican Today” is the latest book by the Mexican chef, cookbook author, and host of the national PBS series Pati’s Mexican Table
Luis Negron ‘Mundo Cruel’
December 7, 2012 ~ The hit first book by Puerto Rican author Luis Negrón about loneliness and the crazy things it drives us to do, is one of those books you can’t put down.
Persona Normal
The Mexico Now Festival opens with Benito Taibo presenting his first book “Persona Normal” at King Juan Carlos Center (NYU), Tue Nov 13, 2012, 7pm (more…)