Submitted by Carlos Aguasaco on Tue, 2019-03-12 12:42
The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrated its 70th birthday on December 10, 2018. Since that statement of principles following the mass atrocities of WWII, the world has witnessed the spread of human rights discourse, norms, law, and institutions at both the domestic and international levels. Eleanor Roosevelt’s prediction that “a curious grapevine” would spread the ideas articulated in that 1948 General Assembly document seems to have come to fruition.
Submitted by Carlos Aguasaco on Mon, 2018-10-01 17:24
The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2018 (poetryny.com) is the fifth 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 10, 11 and 12. 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.
Submitted by Carlos Aguasaco on Fri, 2017-09-29 15:07
The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2017- (poetryny.com) is the fourth multilingual poetry festival and writers’ conference organized by poets and professors Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos and Carlos Velásquez Torres. This year the festival will take place on October 4th, 5th and 6th. The festival will feature sixty poets representing twenty-two countries and five languages.
Submitted by Carlos Aguasaco on Wed, 2016-10-05 14:43
The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2016 (poetryny.com) is the third multilingual poetry festival and conference organized by poets and professors Carlos Aguasaco (CCNY), Yrene Santos (CCNY) and Carlos Velásquez Torres (NMHU). This year the festival will take place on October 12, 13 and 14. The main 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.
