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A coloring book for people in the diaspora who may not speak Spanish but still feel a pull toward the culture. Through images of family life, music, food, neighborhood traditions, island landscapes, and the places Puerto Ricans have made home, the book offers a way to explore that connection by looking, coloring, remembering, and learning.
Short notes and Spanish words can add context without turning the pages into lessons or tests. You don’t have to speak Spanish to belong. This is an invitation to meet the culture where you are, ask questions, and reclaim a connection that language alone cannot measure.
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Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies; The Moor of the Bronx
Urayoán Noel, “In the Decimated City: Symptom, Translation, and the Performance of a New York Jíbaro from Ladí to Luciano to Lavoe”, CENTRO Journal 19, no. 2 (2007).
What happens to the jíbaro figure when it reaches New York? This may be the closest conceptual companion to the movement between rural Puerto Rico and the city in your work. (CentroPR)
Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies
Nathaniel I. Córdova, “In His Image and Likeness: The Puerto Rican Jíbaro as Political Icon”, CENTRO Journal 17, no. 2 (2005).
Who gets represented by the jíbaro, and what does that national symbol leave out? (CentroPR)
Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies
Sophia M. Enriquez, “‘Penned Against the Wall’: Migration Narratives, Cultural Resonances, and Latinx Experiences in Appalachian Music”, Journal of Popular Music Studies 32, no. 2 (2020): 63–76.
How do Latinx artists claim Appalachian belonging through sound and storytelling? It studies musicians, so the comparison with your poetry would need to be made explicitly. (University of California Press)
The Moor of the Bronx; Orfeito
Judith Rodríguez, “Poetic Schemas: Reading Antiblack Collusions in Puerto Rican Aesthetics”, Critical Times 7, no. 1 (2024): 182–214.
How can a reader examine race within Puerto Rican cultural identity without assuming that shared nationality resolves antiblackness? (Duke University Press)
The Moor of the Bronx; The Recital
Samuel Ginsburg, “Sonic Modernity and Decolonizing Countersounds in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel”, Latin American Research Review(2019).
What changes when a Puerto Rican poem is heard or performed, rather than encountered only on the page? (Cambridge Core)
The Recital; Orfeito
Rachel E. Ellis Neyra, “Hearing the Cry in Black Diasporic and Latina/o Poetics”, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15, no. 4 (2013).
How might voice, music, and diasporic memory change a reading of Orfeo’s journey? The journal record explicitly confirms peer review. (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
Orfeito
Marília Scaff Rocha Ribeiro, “Variations on the Brazilian Orpheus Theme”, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 11, no. 3 (2009).
What happens when the Orpheus myth enters a specific place shaped by race, music, and inequality? Brazil is a comparison, not a stand-in for Puerto Rico. (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
Orfeito; Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies
Luis R. Galanes, “Race and Nation in Three Canonic Texts of Puerto Rican Literature”, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 26, no. 2 (2024).
How have Puerto Rican writers represented African heritage, and who has been permitted to speak for it? Its journal record explicitly confirms peer review. (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
The Living Archive: From Historical Record to Poetry
Poetry often begins where the historical record ends. Drawing on my four poetry collections, Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies, The Recital, The Moor of the Bronx, and Orfeito, this resource explores how poets transform archival research, oral histories, cultural memory, and lived experience into literature. Organized around four central questions, it brings together 28 selected readings, approaches to archival research, and practical writing exercises. Designed for readers, writers, educators, and students, The Living Archive invites us to consider not only what history preserves, but also what poetry can recover, question, and reimagine.
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