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Respuesta de Myrna Nieves
I write in Spanish in the United States because there is a Puerto Rican, Latin American, Hispanic public that is interested in the culture and literature that is expressed in this language. It is a public that reads newspapers and magazines; buys books; and attends art exhibits, literary readings and theatre to both enjoy these events and to keep alive an important part of our heritage. A great...
PARADOJAS
Se pierde la ilusión, pero no la esperanza. Se pierde el compás, pero no la ruta. Se pierde la fe, pero no la certeza. El dolor se pierde, pero no su resabio. Esos trazos de muertes violentas forman los mapas de próximas vidas. Amantes y enemigos temporeros son verdaderos ángeles guardianes. Catalizadores, cambian nuestras rutas. Somos los que cuidamos de nosotros. La sabiduría no se adquiere en...
Hot Off the Press! Puerto Rican Folktales/Cuentos folclóricos puertorriqueños: A Note from the Author
My research and recovery work on Pura Belpré, which has spawned so much interest in the past couple of years, obviously had something to do with inspiring my new book, Puerto Rican Folktales/Cuentos folcóricos puertorriqueños . When I discovered her papers in the archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies many moons ago, I knew I had opened a door into a world of tales that had been over...
Namaste
There are many ways to make it home from the subway station. Everything is very gridded here in the Newyores, or well, the Brooklyn-Newyores, I should say, because Manhattan seems to me more like Bayamón, with all its little, curvy labyrinths moving to the rhythm in Palés Matos’ Tembandumba de la Quimbamba. Instead, I like Brooklyn’s very vanilla grid. I always take the same route to go home from...
Inés
Following Marixsa Rodriguez’s piece on children’s literature, we are pleased to publish “Inés,” a short story by the legendary librarian, folklorist, and author Pura Belpré. “Inés,” unpublished during Belpré’s lifetime, was included in Lisa Sánchez González’s The Stories I Read to the Children: The Life and Writing of Pura Belpré, the Legendary Children’s Author, and New York Public Librarian (...
“Adiós”
In 1914, Antonio Pontón, a Puerto Rican student at Albany Law School in New York, became the first Puerto Rican and Hispanic person executed on the electric chair in the United States. He was wrongfully executed at the Sing Sing Prison in 1916, after an unfair trial, failed appeals, and thousands of petitions for clemency. “Adiós” describes the moments Antonio Pontón embarked from San Juan to New...
Inocencia’s Indiscretion
The courtship of Inocencia Martínez and Sotero Figueroa, excerpted below, is part of a copyrighted forthcoming work of fiction based on historical facts that explores women’s roles against the backdrop of Puerto Rican liberation in the 1890s. Entitled Two Wings of a Bird , the narrative completes the saga of Antillean activism in New York City initiated in my book, Feminist and Abolitionist: The...
Places in the Puerto Rican Heart Eddie Figueroa and the Nuyorican Imaginary
Places in the Puerto Rican Heart Eddie Figueroa and the Nuyorican Imaginary [In 1990, I interviewed Eddie Figueroa for a piece I planned to publish in the Village Voice. At the time he gave me a videocassette filmed by an unknown videographer featuring highlights of a benefit event he held for his Puerto Rican Embassy project. The Hi-8 tape of the event and a series of interviews held a few...

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