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Episode: Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Roberto Carlos Garcia
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Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described "sancocho [...] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists." He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books Publishing and currently serves as a NJ State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow. His collection Black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric was included in the Library of Congress Afro Latinx Literature Bibliography. He has presented Afro Latinx poetry and poetics...