We are thrilled to present Peggy Robles-Alvarado in our Wednesday series of ten minute live Zoom readings.

7:30 - 7:40 pm (New York time)

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

The readings will be streamed live to our facebook page and you may also register to watch directly on Zoom.

Event registration for Zoom viewing will be available via Eventbrite from 8/19/20.

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2020 Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner, and a BRIO award winner. She has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Homeschool, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, VONA, and The Kweli Journal. She is also an International Latino Book Award winner. This tenured New York City educator with degrees in elementary, bilingual education, and an MFA in Performance Studies is also an initiated Lucumí and Palo Priestess.

She was featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center, The Black Spirit Solstice Summit, and The BADD! ASS Women Festival. She's authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), Homage To The Warrior Women (2012), and through Robleswrites Productions created The Abuela Stories Project (2016) and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse (2017). Her poetry appears in the anthologies The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020), What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019), Latinas: Voices of Protest and Struggles (2017), and ¡Manteca!- Afro- Latin@ Poets (2017) and The Other Side of Violet and Escape Wheel anthologies by great weather for MEDIA ( 2017). Currently, she facilitates a popular virtual writing workshop titled Line Breaks and Bronx Beats and continues to curate writing and performative experiences through Robleswrites Productions. For more please visit Robleswrites.com