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Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
@roqueraquel.bsky.social
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poeta, traductor y profe 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷

https://www.roquesalasrivera.com/
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“Younger poets approach me as well to say they read me in a class. It makes me feel so grateful that younger trans poets read my poetry. That’s who I write for!” — @roqueraquel.bsky.social #NationalPoetryMonth #TransVoices
The Belief That Poetry Is Soul-Work Drives My Poetic Practice
A Q&A with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera | I teach at the University of Puerto Rico. My students are almost all Puerto Rican, and I teach a variety of courses on Gender Studies, Cinema and Human Rights, P...
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April 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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There are things that come through the poems that can only exist in poetry. This is what @roqueraquel.bsky.social means by poetry as soul-work. #PoetryIsLife
The Belief That Poetry Is Soul-Work Drives My Poetic Practice
A Q&A with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera | I teach at the University of Puerto Rico. My students are almost all Puerto Rican, and I teach a variety of courses on Gender Studies, Cinema and Human Rights, P...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Electric Literature revela las portadas de Algarabía de @roqueraquel.bsky.social (Graywolf Press, 2025). Es una epopeya que sigue el viaje de Cenex, un ser trans que narra su vida retrospectivamente mientras navega por las historias contadas en su nombre.

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February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of “Algarabía” by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera @roqueraquel.bsky.social The bilingual covers capture the feeling of a trans epic. electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...
February 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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mi bebéeeeee 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷✨💖
electricliterature.com Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Feb 27
🚨Cover reveal alert!🚨 “Algarabía” by @roqueraquel.bsky.social is coming this September from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Read more about the book and the story behind its cover, designed by Luis Vázquez O’Neill with art by Natalia Bosques Chico. buff.ly/4ifYDJ9
Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Algarabía" by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera - Electric Literature
The bilingual covers capture the feeling of a trans epic
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February 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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¡finalmente! no saben lo que significa para mí este libro de transición y la creación de una mitología a falta de una historia oficial que nos reconozca a NOSOTRES las personas TRANS TRANS TRANS. ya la pueden preordenar y recibirán las copias en septiembre.

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Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Algarabía" by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera - Electric Literature
The bilingual covers capture the feeling of a trans epic
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February 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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And we will continue to show our love and support for trans and nonbinary folx and affirm that we will still make their voices heard with these books by @roqueraquel.bsky.social, @daniellaurison.bsky.social, and many more! #TransLivesMatter @gayatripat.bsky.social
No Matter Who’s in Office, Trans Lives Will Always Matter to Beacon Press
By Gayatri Patnaik | Beacon Press sides with the trans and nonbinary community always—and especially in these times. As a book publisher, we speak through our books and want to lift up authors we have...
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February 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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remember when americans were like "we're the greatest democracy"? 🤣😭

#cositasdecolonizadxs
February 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Sylvia Rivera
A black trans woman holds a microphone to Sylvia Rivera who says "I gave them their prife but they have not given me mine"
February 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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sobre mi práctica de traducción. me alegra que sigan creciendo la cantidad de traducciones de textos puertorriqueños (en ambas direcciones). es importante que diáspora y archipiélago se hablen y sí, a veces hacen falta traductores de los nuestros. (1)
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Mira qué trajeron los Reyes desde @centropr.bsky.social! La traducción de @roqueraquel.bsky.social es, a su vez, fiera y tierna! As always w/ his work, translation is dialogue and the revelation of truths&possibilities deep within in the original text 🇵🇷 You may now resume streaming DtMF
January 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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¡Mañana! Auspicia Humanidades Puerto Rico.

Con Irizelma Robles y @roqueraquel.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Presentación del libro La Otra Julia de Mayra Santos-Febres
miércoles 11 de diciembre a las 6:00pm
The Bookmark, Liberty Square, San Patricio Plaza
Guaynabo, PR

Narra la intensa vida de Julia de Burgos a través de la voz de una de las escritoras más relevantes de Puerto Rico.
December 10, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Lectura bilingüe del poemario
El libro de los conjuros | The Book of Conjurations
de Irizelma Robles; traducido por @roqueraquel.bsky.social

martes 17 de diciembre, 6:30pm
Museo de las Américas
Cuartel de Ballajá (2do piso), Viejo San Juan

Gratis y abierto al público
Auspicia Humanidades PR
December 9, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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There is no greater compliment for an author than being asked to sign a book that is just WRECKED. Binding cracked. Pages curled. Finger grooves in the edges. A book that has been read to death, and is still a prized possession.
December 7, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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entrevistaron a este papichulo para la Maestría de Estudios Culturales y Humanísticos del Departamento de Humanidades de mi alma mater.

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November 25, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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¡Gracias al Centro para el Libro Puerto Rico y a Humanidades Puerto Rico por estas fotos tan chulas de la presentación del libro Latino Poetry de The Library of America en el Teatro Tapia el miércoles 20 de noviembre!
November 23, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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OH MY GOD OH MY GOD @lenakt.bsky.social WON THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY IVE BEEN CRYING FOR 5 MINUTES STRAIGHT
November 21, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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I'm trans as in dismantle the entire matrix of domination, not trans as in please let me use the bathroom in between votes to send billions of weapons for genocide
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Nov 21
I think now is a good opportunity for cis people to step back and learn from how trans people are responding to Sarah McBride’s handling of the GOP’s transphobia.

A lot of trans folks are saying representation isn’t enough. They want a politics of liberation.
November 22, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry
A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."
November 20, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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Thank you so much, @urayoan.bsky.social, for this beautiful shoutout! Your support means the world. It’s an honor to have my work and rooster journey featured in such a hallowed hall. Deep gratitude @roqueraquel.bsky.social and @latinxprojnyu for this conversation and the space for our stories. 💜
November 20, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Brilliant conversation and brilliant book! Gracias @roqueraquel.bsky.social & @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social! An honor to feature you!
latinxprojnyu.bsky.social The Latinx Project @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social · Nov 19
New on Intervenxions—From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf

“It takes care to write a book like Consider the Rooster and a great deal of vulnerability.”

By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (@roqueraquel.bsky.social)

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November 19, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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New on Intervenxions—From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf

“It takes care to write a book like Consider the Rooster and a great deal of vulnerability.”

By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (@roqueraquel.bsky.social)

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
November 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲
miércoles 20 de noviembre de 2024
7:00 PM, Teatro Tapia, Viejo San Juan
Entrada libre
Con Aurora Levins Morales, Víctor Hernández Cruz y Roque Raquel Salas Rivera. Yo seré el moderador.
REGISTRO EN: givebutter.com/latino-poetry
Auspicia Humanidades Puerto Rico
November 9, 2024 at 1:22 AM