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A Look Back at My Exciting October 2024 Whirlwind NYC Book Tour
Sharing a photo collage of experiences
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
~ Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist, Author, Fierce Freedom Fighter
Marketing is something I’m less than excited about. There’s something that just doesn’t sit right with me about asking folks to buy my book.
Still, I knew that taking my debut chapbook, Daughter de Borikén, to the city that in large part shaped the woman typing these words would be a unique opportunity I had to take full advantage of!
So, when in late August my publisher, Carlos Colón Ruiz of Editorial Pulpo sent a note about the Festival del Libro event taking place in late October in El Barrio, my eyes remained fixated at his words.
Wait, what? There’s a book fest in my city? I gotta be there!!
Here’s the thing, of our group of a pinch over 30 authors, I’m the only one who (a) is a native NYC poet, (b) writes in Spanglish and (c) whose work reflects the diaspora-displaced experience with the metropolis that is La Gran Manzana as backdrop.
