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Browse features on Latin books in New York City and spoken word, including Latin authors, books, libraries, book fairs, literary festivals, and more.
Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance Jazz Poet Who Spoke of Rivers
JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸
National Puerto Rican Artisans and Authors Fair Offers Great Artisanal Holiday Gifts and Family Entertainment
HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Letras Boricuas Fellows Announced by the Mellon Foundation in New York and the Flamboyan Foundation in San Juan
NEW YORK, SAN JUAN 🇵🇷
125th Street Library, the New York Public Library in East Harlem “El Barrio,” Reopens Newly Renovated with Storytime
“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan
Luís de Camões is Portugal’s National Poet
JUNE 10, 1580 🇵🇹
Black Comic Book Festival Brings Creatives and Blerds Together with a Fun Cosplay Showcase
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Prolific Latin American Boom Writer and Peruvian Nobel Prize for Literature Winner
AREQUIPA, Arequipa, Peru ~ March 28, 1936 🇵🇪 🇪🇸
World Poetry Day Breathes Life into Words
UNITED NATIONS ~ March 21 🇺🇳
Gabriel García Márquez Said His Magical Realism Was Based on Caribbean Reality
ARACATACA, Magdalena, Colombia ~ March 6, 1927 🇨🇴
Julia de Burgos was a Great Puerto Rican Poet. ¡Río Grande de Loíza!
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico ~ February 17, 1914 🇵🇷
Frederick Douglass Brought the Meaning of the U.S. Constitution to Life
TALBOT COUNTY, Maryland ~ February 14, 1817 or 1818 🇺🇸
Carlos Fuentes was Mexico’s Most Celebrated Novelist
November 11, 1928 ~ “The Death of Artemis Cruz.”
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Isabel Allende Reads From and Discusses Her New Book “The Wind Knows My Name” with Alicia Menendez
92ND STREET Y, NEW YORK
Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇮🇱 🇸🇻
Arturo Schomburg was a Puerto Rican Harlem Renaissance Man
SANTURCE, San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
NY Art Book Fair 2022 Moves to Chelsea, Manhattan
Thursday-Sunday, October 13-16, 2022
548 WEST 22ND ST
Chelsea, Manhattan
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The Nuyorican Poets Café Block Party 2022 is WEPA, WEPA, WEPA!
NUYORICAN POETS CAFE, “Loisaida” East Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷
National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo 2021 is at Hostos College
Saturday, November 20, 2021
HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Movement Without Borders is a Day of Dance for Humanizing Immigration at Judson Memorial Church
Saturday, October 2, 2021
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
Greenwich Village
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy
February 26, 2021 🇫🇷🎨📚 Photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler on their newest art book “Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire: Frédéric Zaavy”
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
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
Aldo Sessa, Argentine Photographer of Gauchos and Ports
April 11-26, 2018
THROCKMORTON FINE ART
ARGENTINE CONSULATE NYC
Midtown, NYC
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
NY Art Book Fair 2017 is for art book lovers
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, Queens
PREVIEW September 21, 2017
FAIR September 22 – 24, 2017
New Yorker Festival 2017 gets writers and thinkers talking
Sofia Coppola, Roberta Mancino, Philippe Petit, Anthony Bourdain, and Françoise Mouly
Friday – Sunday
October 6 – 8, 2017
Laurie Hernandez is a star Gymnast, dancer, author and beyond
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2017 Athlete of the Year
Martín Fierro is the foundation of Argentine literature
By José Hernandez (1872)
Pati Jinich “Mexican Today” Cookbook
“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
La Peregrina, Love and Death in Mexico
Thursday, October 18, 2012
MURRAY HILL, NYC ~ A new book about an American journalist who loved Mexico at the Mexican Cultural Institute