Multilingual Anthology: The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2016

The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2016 (poetryny.com) is the third multilingual poetry festival and writers’ conference organized by poets and professors Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos and Carlos Velásquez. This year the festival will take place on October 12, 13 and 14. The venues are: Center For Worker Education CCNY, Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center, Consulate of Argentina in New York, and Instituto Cervantes NY. TAPFNY is currently sponsored by the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies of The City College of New York, Artepoetica Press, Escribana Books and Terraza 7 Live Music. The venues are: Center For Worker Education CCNY, Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center, Consulate of Argentina in New York, and Instituto Cervantes NY. El Festival de Poesía de las Américas -Nueva York 2016- (poetryny.com) es el tercer festival multilingüe y encuentro de escritores organizado por los poetas y profesores Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos y Carlos Velásquez. Este año el festival se celebrará en octubre 12, 13 & 14. En la actualidad TAPFNY es patrocinado por Division of Interdisciplinary Studies of The City College of New York, Artepoética Press, Escribana Books y Terraza 7 Live Music. Las sedes del festival son Center For Worker Education CCNY, Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center, Consulate of Argentina in New York y el Instituto Cervantes NY.

BOOK SUMMARY This volume, coedited by poets and Professors Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos and Carlos Velasquez Torres, collects the work of the poets that participated in The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2016. Authors from 22 different countries are presented here with short biographical notes and a sample or their poetry. This book is a rich diverse multilingual sampler of the poetry written in our times. List of poets included: Akram Alkatreb -Syria- Alex Lima  -Ecuador- Alexandra Botto -Mexico/USA- Allia Abdullah-Matta -USA- Amado Láscar  -Chile- Asdrubal Hernandez -Venezuela- Attila F. Balázs  -Hungary- César Eduardo Carrión -Ecuador- Christopher Carmona -USA- Christos Tsiamis -Greece- Consuelo Hernández  -Colombia/USA- Daniel Shapiro  -USA- Elizabeth Lara -USA- Elsa Batista Pimentel  -Dominican Rep.- Emily Fragos -USA- Fior E. Plasencia -Domican Rep./USA- Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks -Cuba- Jorge Aguilera López  -Mexico- Jorge Miguel Cocom Pech  -Maya Nation, Mexico- José Gustavo Melara -El Salvador- Juan Navidad -Spain- Juana M. Ramos  -El Salvador- Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernández  -Puerto Rico- Kary Cerda -Mexico- Kätlin Kaldmaa -Estonia- Keiselim A. Montás (Keysi) -Dominican Rep.- Kianny N. Antigua  -Dominican Rep.- Linda Morales Caballero -Peru- Lola Koundakjian -Armenia/USA- Manuel Iris -Mexico- Margarita Drago -Argentina- María Ángeles Pérez López -Spain- María Helena Barrera-Agarwal -Ecuador- Mariana Vacs -Argentina- Marianela Medrano -Dominican Rep.- Maryam Alikhani -Iran/USA- Michelle Yasmine Valladares –India/Kuwait/USA– Milton Fernando Romero Obando -Ecuador- Patricio Lerzundi –Chile– Pedro Arturo Estrada -Colombia- Pedro Serrano -Mexico- Pilar Gonzalez Santos  -USA- Ralph Nazareth  –India– Raúl Pérez Torres -Ecuador- Raymond Collazo -USA- Regina Jamison -USA- Rémy Durand -France- Rolando Pérez -Cuba- Seamus Scanlon –Ireland– Sophia Yánez -USA/Peru/Ecuador- Tomás Modesto Galán -Dominican Rep.- Verónica Aranda -Spain- Vicente Robalino -Ecuador- William Marín Osorio             -Colombia- Zhivka Baltadzhieva -Bulgaria- Zulema Moret -Argentina-