Hispanic Heritage Month: Conversation with my skin, a poetry performance

Critically acclaimed Puerto Rican-Dominican Taina poet and educator Peggy Guatuki Robles-Alvarado performs some of her original poetry with the brief discussion to follow.
 

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a resilient New York City tenured educator, a 2014 BRIO award winner and CantoMundo Fellow. She is a two time International Latino Book Award winner and author of Conversations with My Skin and Homenaje A Las Guerreras/ Homage to the Warrior Women. Robles-Alvarado has been featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Poets and Writers Fifth Annual Connecting Cultures Reading, and The BADD!ASS Women Festival as well as other culturally notable venues.

She has been published in NACLA (The North American Congress on Latin America), Letras, by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, The Bronx Memoir Project, Luna Luna Magazine, Hyperallergic.com, Upliftt.com, Dealmas.net and Sofrito For Your Soul.  Determined to build a legacy within the arts, she is continuously creating and supporting literary events through Robleswrites Productions

See the complete list of Hispanic Heritage Month events at BMCC.

For more information, contact one of the following:

• Katherine Figueroa, Lecturer, Deputy Chair, Academic Literacy and Linguistics; (212) 220-8000, Ext. 7358
• Jose Haro, Instructor, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice, (212) 220-8602
• David Caicedo, Instructor, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice, (212) 220-8000, Ext. 5333

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