Roque Raquel Salas Rivera Reads from the Speculative Trans Epic Algarabía
Puerto Rican award-winning poet reading from latest book
Monday, April 21, 2025 · 12 - 1 PM
Virtual
Join students from SPAN 421: Latin American Environmental Literature & Cultural Production and GWST 341: Indigenous and Decolonial Feminisms for a special reading on award-winning Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's latest book, Algarabía (Gray Wolf Press, 2025).
About the poet and Algarabía:
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera es un poeta, educador y traductor puertorriqueño de experiencia trans. Sus reconocimientos incluyen el nombramiento como Poeta Laureado de la ciudad de Filadelfia, el Premio Nuevas Voces, el premio literario Lambda y el inaugural Premio Ambroggio. Coeditó de las antologías Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous, 2019) y La piel del arrecife: Antología de poesía trans puertorriqueña (La Impresora, 2023). Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025), su octava colección, es una épica especulativa trans. Roque Raquel vive y crea en una urbanización riopedrense y se desempeña como Catedrático Auxiliar del la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera a poet, editor, educator, and translation of trans experience. His honors include being named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the Premio Nuevas Voces, a Lambda literary award, and the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. He has coedited the anthologies Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press, 2019) and La piel del arrecife: Antología de poesía trans puertorriqueña (La Impresora & Atarraya Cartonera, 2023. The author of seven poetry books, Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025), his eighth collection, is a speculative trans epic. Roque Raquel lives Puerto Rico, where he currently teaches in the College of General Studies at the University of Puerto Rico.
About the event: The event is virtual, via WebEx, please use link on this event page to join. This event will also be fully bilingual. Open to all!
Event is hosted by Dr. Thania Muñoz and Dr. María Célleri, and coordinate by the Latin American Feminisms Faculty Working Group.
Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies, and the Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communications