Luis H. Francia, Bino A. Realuyo, and Ninotchka Rosca, three Filipino-American writers who live in Jackson Heights, Queens talked-story and presented literary works around Filipino “Halloween” themes: spirituality, pre-Hispanic supernatural mythology, Filipino rituals around death, and their own cultural response to … Continued
The Mujeristas’ Collective presented at the Barco de Papel Cultural Center its third printed publication with the open microphone “Things that I will never tell you” on Saturday, December 14, 2019. The open mic featured an online open call to … Continued
The LGTB literary expression returned on September 27 and 28, 2019 for the second consecutive year to the Barco de Papel Cultural Center with a selection of renowned authors. In the second edition of “LGTB Visibility in Literature” Barco … Continued
Elmhurst, NY-Centro Cultural Barco de Papel presented the “Wandering Art and Library” project that traveled the streets of Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona, Queens. “Cities are places of barter, not just merchandise, but also of words, wishes and memories.”—Italo Calvino Sponsored by … Continued
The independent editorial Book Press NY presented four authors who contributed to the collection called ‘El hilo de la memoria (Thread of Memory)’ at Centro Cultural Barco de Papel on December 4th. El Hilo de la memoria is a literary … Continued
Poets Gabriel Jaime Caro ‘Gajaka’ (Colombia) and Otoniel Guevara (Salvador) met in a poetic dialogue which they called “Naked Poets.” Attendees were invited to take a trip with them on their encounters and misadventures which by way of conversation, poems were interspersed. The … Continued
As part of the new edition of LATIN AMERICAN POETRY FESTIVAL OF NEW YORK CITY 2015 guest poets: Raquel Abend van Dalen (Venezuela 1989), Alejandro Crotto (Argentina, 1978) Gladys Gonzalez (Chile, 1981) and Kelver Ax (Ecuador 1985) read in Barco de … Continued
Centro Cultural Barco de Papel presented the event “Two Peruvian poets útlima Generation” on Friday November 6, 2015. The poets Yevgeny Bezzubikoff Diaz (Huancayo, Peru, 1978) and José Antonio Mazzotti (Lima, 1961) read their poetry work at 7pm in the … Continued
Centro Cultural Barco de Papel presented last September 26 the first edition of the “Approach to poetry written by women” with an excellent response from the community who filled the room to hear the work of the young poets Marielis … Continued
Barco de Papel Cultural Center Paper presented the poets Enrique Giordano of Chile and Diego Mora of Costa Rica, the event was called ‘Two divergent poets’. As its name implies they diverge, but they are linked by many common things like love … Continued