(Jared Silvia)performing at Stetson University for MFAotA (Jared Silvia)(George Malavé)Griot-Poets Memorial selfie w. Pietri photos by Nitza Tufiño w. Charlie and Alfonso Muñoz, Santurce, PRw. Terri Witek and Stetson students after Sullivan Series reading, DeLand, FLIn conversation w. Victor Hernández Cruz, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, NYCw. “Librotraficante” Tony Díaz and Marco Saavedra at La Morada, South BXw. Awilda Sterling-Duprey after her performance at the Whitney Museum, NYC (Charlie Vázquez)w. fellow Letras Boricuas fellows Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Joserramón Melendes en route to Isla Palomino, PRw. Mariposa Fernández remembering Elizam Escobar during Letras Boricuas retreat, Río Piedras, PR, 2023Poetry in the Courtyard, July 9, 2022. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Noel
WoodfordPoetry in the Courtyard, July 9, 2022. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Noel WoodfordFlorida summer (Tom Sparks)The People’s Conversation, Clemente Soto Vélez Center, NYC (Monxo López)Saxxy improvisation at TRII alongside Maryam Ivette Parhizkar (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet)The Racial Imaginary Institute symposium, Judson Church, 2022 (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet)w. Willie Perdomo, Gallego, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, and Luis Negrón, Librería La Esquina, PRoutside TFANA (BK) with my sonnet inspired by The Tempest for #TheWillOfTheCity (Charlie Vázquez)Performing w. Monxo López at Tito Matos memorial (presente!), Andrew Freedman Home, BXintroducing Emanuel Xavier at his Selected Poems launch, Village Works, NYC (Brian Berger)w. Legna Rodríguez Iglesias after reading at Toñitas, BKperforming on the Bronx side of the High Bridge in support of Sheila Maldonado (who took the photo)Saxxy solo at backyard #Transversalon, South Bronx (Ricardo Alberto Maldonado) skyline selfie at Luis Carle’s, NYCPelícano Beach, Isabela, PR (Charlie Vázquez) Bagku, The Africa CenterThe Africa Center, Harlem, NYC PopsUp (Nina Westervelt)visiting Aurora Levins Morales w. Nicole Cecilia Delgado in Indiera Alta, Maricao, PR (Charlie Vázquez)reading from Transversal for Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Clemente Center, NYC, 2021GAYLETTER feature art by Giancarlo Montes SantangeloMuseum of the City of New York closeupmy I Can’t Breathe/No Puedo Respirar, Museum of the City of New YorkThain Family Forest, NYBG, BX (Charlie Vázquez) my photo of my Bronx block published in the New York Times virtual postcard performance for the Clemente Center, 2020 my San Juan Starry Night (2000), Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (Charlie Vázquez)Toronto Biennial of Art, w. a virtual Wingston González (Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza)Paying tribute to Pedro Pietri, La Casa de los Contrafuertes (Ana Rosa Rivera)Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (Keith Jones)Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee (Ck Ledesma)Queer Voices, Poesiefestival Berlin (Mirko Lux)Poesiefestival Berlin (Johannes Göransson)Poesiefestival Berlin (Mirko Lux)freshly made Bagku #2 ( Roque Raquel Salas Rivera)freshly made Bagku, PR (Roque Raquel Salas Rivera)after my performance at Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, w. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera & CA Conradw. poets La Bruja, Zero Prophet, José Angel Figueroa & Joselia Rebekah Hughes & activists Emmanuel Pardilla & Iris Morales, Stage Garden Rumba, BX (Edwin Pagán)Stage Garden Rumba, BX (A. Quiles)Museo de Arte de PR (Nicole Cecilia Delgado)reading from Pablo de Rokha’s Los gemidos (1922) at “Whitman Was Here” in Coney Island w. Reina María Rodríguez, Kristin Dykstra, and Mónica de la Torre, McNally Jackson, NYC (Silvina López Medin)Atlantic Center for the Arts (Jared Alan Smith)w. Samuel R. Delany & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, MFAoTA, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FLw. Nancy Mercado & Miguel Algarín, NYCPortrait by Luis Carle, NYCPortrait by Luis Carle, NYCw. Ntozake Shange, Harlem Arts SalonCenter for Performance Research, BrooklynFLIA PR (Raquel Salas Rivera) Margaret Randall reading, McNally Jackson, Brooklyn (The Operating System) Bowery Poetry Club, NYCBrooklyn Historical Society (Ricardo Alberto Maldonado)Center for Book Arts, NYC (JP Howard)StageGardenRumba, Pregones, Bronx (Edwin Pagán)w. Michael Bisio at Gerrit Lansing tribute (Dan Wilcox)Gerrit Lansing tribute, Kingston, NY (Peter Monaco)Poesía pal barrio, Alto del Cabro, PR (Mara Pastor)with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal showing off our books, AWP, Tampa, FLCuerpo del poema launch, ICP, PRmirror selfie, MCO, Orlando mirror selfie, NYC, 2018#PoetsforPuertoRico, Poets House, NYC (Samuel Miranda)w. Edwin Torres & Victor Hernández Cruz, Loisaida (LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs)closeup 2 (Vignoli)closeup (Vignoli)Buzzing Hemisphere in Argentina (Vignoli)Festival Internacional de Poesía de Rosario , Argentina (Luis Vignoli)Contraerte (Ada M. Vilar)Contraerte, Casa de los Contrafuertes, PR (Ivelisse Jiménez)w. Carlos Soto Román, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, MFA of the Americasw. Joseph Torra & Gerrit Lansing, Gloucester, MA (Charlie Vázquez)w. Charlie, NYCw. Antonio Martorell, Pregones, BX (Charlie Vázquez)La Casita, BX (LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs)w. Patricia Spears Jones & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, La Casita (Marie-Elizabeth Mali)La Casita (Enrique Figueroa)La Casita, Lincoln Center, NYC (Enrique Figueroa)Valparaíso, Chile, MFA of the Americas (Juan Carlos Reyes)w. Juan Carlos Reyes & Anamaría Briede, Santiago, Chile, MFA of the Americas w. Demetrius Daniel, Loisaida, NYCtalk/performance, Cal State Northridge (Yarma Velázquez-Vargas)w. Emanuel Bravo, José Miguel Curet & Nicole Cecilia Delgado after our reading at Librería Laberinto, Río Piedras, PRResidente session, Electric Lady Studios, NYCSanta Cruz, CA (Kirsten Silva Gruesz)performance, MFA of the Americas, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FLportrait by Richard Rosario, BX, 2017New Latin Wave, Remezcla, Brooklyn (Arnaldo J. López)Kuwentuhan w. Lehua Taitano on the ukulele (Angela Narciso Torres)Kuwentuhan (Cecilie Lyngberg)Kuwentuhan, SFSU Poetry Center, San Francisco (Aimee Suzara)Resistencia Bookstore, Austin (Sam Ginsburg)University of Chicago (Jennifer Scappettone)w. Gallego in Ponce, PR for a reading at El CandilWinter Shack, Brooklyn w. Baseera Khanw. Chino García, Loisaida, 2016 Buzzing Hemisphere launch w. Edwin Torres, Casa Azul Bookstore (Yesenia Montilla)Boundless w. toy guitarBoundless Theatre, El BarrioCantoMundo, Austin (Octavio Quintanilla)La Marqueta, El Barrio (Shaggy Flores)w. Pedro López Adorno (& Pietri), El Museo (Rich Villar)celebrating Pedro Pietri, El Museo del Barriothe Bronx (Sandra María Esteves)Harlem River selfie Enclave: Poéticas Experimentales, Mexico City (Ivan Vergara Web)20 poetas en la 20reading from EnUncIAdOr at 20 poetas en la 20, Santurce, PR (Herminio Rodríguez) Festival de la Palabra, PR (Randall Horton) University of Pittsburgh (Ángel Lozada)w. Monxo López & Libertad Guerra, Dia Art Foundation, Chelsea, NYCEnUncIAdOrEnUncIAdOR full performance, Casa del Sargento, PR (Beta-Local)hon the red carpet w. Lola von Miramar, Loisaida (Javier Romero)marching at the PR Parade w. Arlene Dávila & poetas (Charlie Vázquez)Adál book party, Roberto Paradise, PRVCFA in San Juan, PR (Jen Bervin)jumping portrait by Adál, PR, 2015w. Edwin Torres & Omar Pérez, LoisaidaOhio State University (Frederick Luis Aldama)In Visible Movement, Bronx Council on the Arts, BX (Charlie Vázquez)The CounterCulturalists, El Museo del BarrioSamuel Díaz Carrión book launch, Taller Boricua, El Barrio (Eliud Martinez) Pedro Pietri tribute, Hoboken Historical Museum (Danny Shot)w. Emanuel Xavier, LoisaidaIn Visible Movement, BCA, BX (Arlene Dávila)Hemispheric Institute, NYU (Laura Blüer)w. Marlis Momber, Loisaida Center, NYC w. Pierre Joris, Bowery Poetry Club, (RI Sutherland Cohen)CantoMundo, Austin (Octavio Quintanilla)w. Johanny Vázquez Paz & Josefina Báez, Poesía en Abril, ChicagoNYU reading w. LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsIn Vermont w. Edwin Torres (Kristin Dykstra)Poetry Project close up (Nicole Peyrafitte)The Poetry Project, NYC (Nicole Peyrafitte)La Habanapanel, CubaCubaFeria Internacional del Libro de la Habana, Cuba (Zayra Taranto)w. Christian Amigo (El Paper)Local Project, NYC (El Paper)Local Project (LaMicro Theater)w. Rigoberto González at AWP 2014, SeattleBerl’s Poetry Bookshop, Brooklyn (Eduardo C. Corral)Nuyorican closeup (Vagabond Alexander Beaumont)Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Virtual Boricua)reading w. Laurie Ann Guerrero & Ire’ne Lara Silva, Gallista Gallery, San Antoniow. Laurie Ann Guerrero, San Antonio, TX (Octavio Quintanilla)Local Project, Queens, NYC (El Paper)Festival de la PalabraFestival de la Palabra (H Roberto Llanos)Festival de la Palabra, PR (Charlie Vázquez)Librería Mágica, Río Piedras (Ángel Matos)Poets in the Park, Albany, NY (Dan Wilcox)Bagku at Hemi, São PauloTrasnocheo, Hemi Encuentro, São Paulo, Brazil (Marlène Ramírez-Cancio)Bronx Grand Concourse: A Cultural Map, featuring Urayoán Noel (Bronx Museum)portrait by Jonás Hidalgo, Loisaida, 2013w. Craig Santos Perez in San Juan for ASAPoint of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NYbook party for Luis Negrón’s Mundo cruel, Word Up Bookstore, NYCBagku installation, The Dirty Dirty, Brooklyn (Martha Clippinger)BagkuBagku, performance, Art in Odd Places, Loisaida (Lena Burgos Lafuente)Bryant Park, NYC (Dan Vera)Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona Poetry Festival (Eduard Escoffet)Palau de la Música CatalanaPalau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona Poetry Festivalw. Los Guapos Planetas, William Paterson University, NJ (Rosa Soto)Local Project, Queens, NYCaction shot by Nestor Cristancho, NYC, 2012Edgemere peekneekEdgemere presentedEdgemere trek Edgemere expressedEdgemere lengthenedw. Martha Clippinger, The Edgemere Letters, NYCwith Jonás Hidalgo (presente!) on drumsClemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, Loisaida (Jorge Suberví)w. Juan Carlos Flores, Kristin Dykstra & Henri Rousseau, MOMACaribbean Philosophical Association, Rutgers (Reena Diamante)Illinois State University (Brian Collier)w. Mara Pastor & Willie Perdomo in Austin, TX, for UT reading Batey Urbano, Chicago (Frances Aparicio)Guánica, Taller Boricua, 2011 (Christine Licata)“See What I Mean” opening, Taller Boricua (Oliver Rios)Social Justice Center closeupSocial Justice Center, Albany, NY, 2010 (Dan Wilcox)Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular, PR (Amarilis Tavárez Vales)Adál’s Blueprints for a Nation, Centro (Marina Ortiz)after presenting at Adál’s Blueprints for a Nation, w. Miriam Basilio, Yasmin Ramirez, Adál, and Libertad Guerra, Centro (Marina Ortiz)Noricua, BronxArtSpace, Laura Napierfrom Guánica smartphone installation (2009)Noricua in PR (Brenda Cruz)more Boringkén, NYC (Adriana Mateos)Boringkén in the South Bronx (Ivelisse Jiménez)The Loft Literary Center, MN (Shannon McCarville)Acentos marathon reading, Hunter Collegeportrait by BadArtKills, Loisaida, 2008(B)X. w. Libertad Guerra, Mark Naison, Edwin Torres & Marshall Berman, Berlin (Monxo López)recording the Boringkén CD, South Bronx (Monxo López)Galería Comercial, PR (La Esquina Bohemia)w. Monxo López at Peace on A (W.R. Coffel)Peace on A, Loisaida, 2007 (W.R. Coffel)poetry reading at MLA convention, Philadelphiasigning book for Tato Laviera (Marlis Momber)Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, 2006Bowery Poetry Club, 2005Centro Cultural de España, , Lima, Peru (Francisco Jurado Chueca)Moda Cafe, BrooklynMi Sala, South Bronx (Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz)Nuyorican Poets Cafe Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, Loisaida (Monxo López)Montevideo, 2004band photo for El Taller Latino AmericanoNuyorican Poets Cafe (Ivelisse Jiménez)band photoEl Taller Latino Americano, NYC, 2002baby poet w. hat