Friday, October 5, 2018
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Johanny Vázquez Paz Awarded 2018 Paz Prize for Poetry
Johanny Vazquez Paz Awarded 2018 Paz Prize for Poetry
The National Poetry Series is pleased to announce the 2018 Paz Prize for Poetry winner, Puerto Rican poet Johanny Vázquez Paz for her manuscript Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana. The book, selected by judge Rigoberto González, will be published in both English and Spanish by Akashic Books.
“This collection of poems, strong and seductive, centers on the bewilderment created by the body, memory and history,” Gonzalez said. “By visiting these sacred spaces, Johanny Vázquez Paz offers solace for the conflicts that plague our interior and exterior sceneries. As violence diminishes the female spirit, this poet’s courageous, masterful command of language reunites fragments to make something whole.”
Paz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her books include Sagrada Familia, which won an International Latino Book Award in 2015; Querido Voyeur by Ediciones Torremozas (Madrid, Spain, 2012) and Streetwise Poems/Poemas callejeros (Mayapple Press, 2007), a winner at the 2008 International Latino Book Awards (California). In 2012, she won first prize in the poetry category and second place for her story “La muda” (The Mute) at the Consenso Short Story and Poetry Contest of Northeastern Illinois University. She co-edited the anthology Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (Abrazo Press). Her work has been included in many anthologies, including City of Big Shoulders; Ejército de rosas; En la 18 a la 1; The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century; and Poetas sin tregua – Compilación de poetas puertorriqueñas de la generación del 80. She currently teaches at Harold Washington College in Chicago, IL.
“It is an honor to receive the Paz Prize for Poetry and become the first Puerto Rican to obtain this distinction,” Paz said. “It’s also very special to receive a prize that carries my mother’s last name. With Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana, I hope to give a voice to the Puerto Rican diáspora and offer consolation to the victims and survivors of the violence we live in today. I’d like to thank Rigoberto Gonzalez for trusting my poems, the National Poetry Series and Miami Book Fair for promoting and supporting Spanish-language authors in the U.S.”
https://nationalpoetryseries.org/johanny-vazquez-paz-awarded-2018-paz-prize-for-poetry/
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Festival Poesía en Abril 2018
Amigos/as:
Los invito el viernes 26 de abril a las 6:00pm en la Universidad De Paul cuando estaré participando.
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Zapatos Rojos: Eventos de Arte, Música y Poesía
Amigos/as:
Estaré participando en el evento de Zapatos Rojos el jueves, 8 de marzo de 2018, en el Museo de la Universidad De Paul, 935 W. Fullerton, Chicago, IL a las 5:30pm. ¡Los/as esperamos!
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
Nuevo Año / Viejas Verdades
Empecemos el año con una mentira:
Seguiré la dieta del Fitness Magazine. Trataré de emular a esas mujeres: las que llevan
el triunfo en la cintura. Mi capilla será el gimnasio, cada repetición un dios te salve maría, como un rosario
ofrendado a un difunto. Brindaré con la vida cada vitamina, pastilla, crema, engaño…
Sigamos el día con otra mentira:
Estoy tranquila, mis ojeras han dormido
suficiente. Mis pestañas se recuperan exitosamente de la pérdida de lágrimas. La
sombra de la luna le da este tono grisáceo a mi mirada. Nunca estoy sola: la
noche siempre acompaña mi nostalgia de estrellas.
©JVP
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