Philadelphia Book launch for antes que isla es volcán/ before island is volcano (Beacon Press, 2022)

ft. Denice Frohman and Cynthia Dewi Oka

VERSES. X Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project
The Kitchen, NYC
January 18, 2019

Performances by Anaïs Duplan, High Water, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lily Konigsberg, Dorothea Lasky, L'Rain, Eileen Myles, Precious Okoyomon, Raquel Salas Rivera, and Anne Waldman with Devin Brahja Waldman.

Directed by Eliza Soros, Eliza Barry Callahan, Owen Clark-Smith
Produced by Eliza Soros
Director of Photography Owen Clark-Smith
Edited by Owen Clark-Smith
Sound Design by Jack Staffen

VERSES. was organized by Eliza Soros, Eliza Barry Callahan, Gussie Roc.

Poets Jericho Brown, Raquel Salas Rivera, and Natalie Diaz recently joined Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, staff, and guests for an afternoon of LGBTQ+ pride, poetry, and power in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. In 2019, Rivera was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Date: June 26, 2019

Poets Jericho Brown, Raquel Salas Rivera, and Natalie Diaz recently joined Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, staff, and guests for an afternoon of LGBTQ+ pride, poetry, and power in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. In 2019, Rivera was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Date: June 26, 2019

"bendición" poema de Raquel Salas Rivera
poem by Raquel Salas Rivera Stellar Masses II
courtesy of Philadelphia Contemporary
video by Emily Belshaw

The reading was filmed in Shantell Martin’s installation The May Room on Governors Island on October 5th. 2019.

Raquel Salas Rivera, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and the poet laureate of Philadelpha, Pennsylvania, reads their poem “notas sobre las temporadas” as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets’s educational project for National Poetry Month 2020.

Learn more at www.poets.org/dear-poet.
Read the poem at https://poets.org/poem/notes-seasons.

Raquel Salas Rivera reading from while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
Raquel Salas Rivera lee de while they sleep (under the bed is another country)

Queer Puerto Rican poet, Raquel Salas Rivera, reads their poem 'Supracimentacionalidades'.

Produced by:
Edwin López Moya
Mónica Zorrila

Raquel Salas Rivera reads "an open casket for a puerto rican obituary / for pedro pietri," in their own translation from Spanish, Thursday November 21, 2019, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. The full program features Salas Rivera's complete reading, a reading by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, and both poets engaging in conversation with the audience. Full program video at Poetry Center Digital Archive: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poe... Presented as the first of a two-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.

September 2, 2019

From while they sleep (under the bed is another country), Birds, LLC, 2019.

2018/19 Kimmel Jazz Residency David Allen/ Raquel Salas Rivera/ Diane Monroe—Opening Gig

Residency Kick Off
Special BYOB Performance*

Thursday
Jan 17, 2019
8:00 PM

Overview

The Jazz Residency kick off is a performance where the residents feature the music they've created to date. It gives the audience a chance to hear the artist’s sound as they start their journey in developing new work. It's a special BYOB event and tickets are free with a reservation. Can you afford not to come??

David Allen, composer, guitarist, and educator, will “develop a series of jazz compositions that incorporate poetry and spoken-word to tell a story of Philadelphia as a multi-cultural safe-haven” and to “represent the diversity of Philadelphia in both music and language.” This new work is focused on multi-culturalism and the idea of what people think of as "home". It will explore Philadelphia as a safe-haven and sanctuary city for immigrants and migrants alike. Pulling inspiration from his firsthand experience, Allen is enlisting the help of 2018-19 poet laureate of Philadelphia Raquel Sala Rivera, violinist Diane Monroe, drummer Matt Scarano, and bassist Madison Rast to develop the project and tell the story.

Allen has traveled and lived around the world: growing up in Philadelphia before moving to New York City, and then relocating to Istanbul, Turkey in 2013. In 2016 he moved his family back to Philadelphia, as they needed a safe environment after the deterioration of the situation in Turkey. “We were living in Turkey during a very turbulent time and witnessed a military coup first hand. After witnessing such chaos and hostility, we needed a safe haven where we could begin again and we chose Philadelphia."

Lançamento: Desdomínios de Raquel Salas Rivera, Douda Correria (tradução do espanhol Mariano Alejandro Ribeiro)

Apresentação pela autora. Leitura por Nuno Moura, Lígia Soares e Teresa Coutinho.

We (Too) Are Philly is a summer poetry festival organized by the 2018-2019 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Raquel Salas Rivera, and poets Ashley Davis, Kirwyn Sutherland, and Raena Shirali. It is inspired by Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too” and features a line-up of poets of color who have a strong commitment to fighting white supremacy and collaborating with local communities to create shared creative spaces. Poets will come from all over, but each featured poet will be from Philadelphia. We believe that highlighting local authors will serve to raise and respect the histories of those who have built this city. Each reading will also feature at least one poet that works in more than one language. This is a sanctuary city; this festival is a sanctuary space. ICE and fascism have no right to terrorize our loved ones; our authors’ works maintain that truth.

We aspire to have not just poets of color performing, but also POC audiences. Historically, there has been a racial power dynamic in which white audiences consume black and brown art. This is not that kind of festival.

Get ready for some kinda beauty.

PEN America, the Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library present Global Ecopoetics: Poetry, Translation, Climate Change & Public Health livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 26 May 2020 at 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4) / 18:30 BST (London, UTC+1) / 19:30 CEST (Berlin, UTC+2).

Poetry translation is a form of globalization, and world literature, often considered within the paradigm of economic exchange, might also be seen as an ecosystem. What perils does this literary ecosystem face in the present moment, and what is its role in confronting the perils faced by individuals, communities, and the planet's own ecosystem? Speaking from direct experience of the fires that ravaged California last year and the several disasters a—natural and political—that have rocked Puerto Rico, Gander and Salas Rivera consider how poetry confronts such crises.

About this Conference and Conversation Series

Translating the Future launched with weekly hour-long online conversations with renowned translators throughout the late spring and summer and will culminate in late September with several large-scale programs, including a symposium among Olga Tokarczuk's translators into languages including English, Japanese, Hindi, and more.

The conference, co-sponsored by PEN America, the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center CUNY, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, with additional support from the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, commemorates and carries forward PEN's 1970 World of Translation conference, convened by Gregory Rabassa and Robert Payne, and featuring Muriel Rukeyser, Irving Howe, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and many others. It billed itself as "the first international literary translation conference in the United States" and had a major impact on US literary culture.

The conversations are hosted by Esther Allen & Allison Markin Powell.

In poems embracing expanded fields of meter and multi-lingualism, Desiree C. Bailey and Raquel Salas Rivera challenge colonial and English-language conventions of form, opening the lyric to new sonic possibilities. For whom and of what are we making archive – and to what complex lineages of speech do we bring the attention of the poem? Bailey and Rivera sublimate language, time, place, and community into truly original, ecstatic, and necessary work