Roberto Carlos Garcia

Roberto Carlos Garcia's chapbook amores gitano (gypsy loves) was published by Červená Barva Press in 2013. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Public Pool, Stillwater Review, Gawker, Barrelhouse, Tuesday; An Art Project, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, Bold As Love Magazine, Entropy, PLUCK!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, The Rumpus, 5 AM Magazine, Wilderness House, Connotation Press- An Online Artifact, Poets/Artists, Levure Litteraire, and others. His first full collection, Melancolía, is forthcoming from Červená Barva Press in 2016. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation, and is an Instructor of English at Union County College. His website is http://www.robertocarlosgarcia.com/

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Good People, I'm excited to share the cover of my next poetry joint: What Can I Tell You? Selected Poems.

For a poet, I'm usually speechless. I hope you'll support this work. It's scary to have your artistic progression all in one place. Here we go. 🙏🏾

Thank you, Dr Marisel Moreno and Dr Silvio Torres-Saillant for contributing to this collection. & to @edward_vidaurre & @flowersongpress

Truly in awe of all you do.

Thank you, Ann @31annotations for always putting onto the page what I visualize in my head for my covers.

#poetry #afrolatinx #blacklatinx #afrodominican #harlem #nj #nyc

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American Violence

“I refuse to believe that we are going to let ourselves be manipulated into oblivion by some of the most illiterate people in the history…

A short essay on the state of American violence.

“In America, we are kept in a state of perpetual fear by the threat of violence. The truth is we are a desperately frustrated citizenry and a desperately oppressed people. But we have no way of articulating any of that desperation and oppression because we can’t stop regurgitating the violence heaped on us by our oppressors…All of this is violence, and what is worse still is pretending that none of it is true. If we are fed violence for entertainment and consume it freely, how can we process actual violence?“

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Requiems and ReckoningsRéquiems y cálculos - Manhattan Times News

Los escritores aprenden a mirar. En este momento, el mundo nos está dando mucho que observar, dice Roberto Carlos García. El poeta y ensayis

Nice write up of the reading and conversation w/ Morris Jumel Mansion. Big gratitude. 🙏🏾

*correction: my poems is titled "Elegy for all of it."

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https://www.robertocarlosgarcia.com/books.html

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My author copies are here. Your copies should arrive soon!! This never gets old.

Visit flowersongpress.com to order your copy. Also available at @spdbooks and where books are sold online [soon].

Shout out and mad love to Edward Vidaurre, Flower Song Press, Randall Horton, Willie Perdomo, Patricia Smith, Ann Davenport, Angela Abreu at Dominican Writers Association— thank you for believing. Let's build.

#poetrycommunity #poetry #robertocarlosgarcia #afrolatinx #dominicanwriters

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(The Missouri Review)

Welcome to the first episode of the Miller Aud-cast, the new podcast from the Missouri Review. For our inaugural episode, we are honored to present Roberto Carlos Garcia, reading poems from his forthcoming collection, [Elegies], which will be published this December by FlowerSong Press, and which you can pre-order here: www.flowersongpress.com/books-1/p/elegies.

The Miller Aud-cast is the re-envisioning of the Miller Audio Prize from the Missouri Review. Submissions for the 2021 prize are open now through Submittable. Learn all about it here: www.missourireview.com/contests/audio-contest/.

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Hi Folx,

Each purchase of [Elegies] made directly through Flower Song Press will receive a postcard of the cover.

Thank you for your support y'all. I know the pandemic has taken a huge toll on us. I appreciate you. Stay safe. Mad love.

https://www.flowersongpress.com/books-1/p/elegies

Pre-Order [Elegies] by Roberto Carlos Garcia — FlowerSong Press

Coming in December, Roberto Carlos Garcias’ [Elegies] Garcia’s third poetry collection, [Elegies], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism

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Me. Holding a postcard of my book cover for [Elegies]. Did you order your copy?

I'm just saying, I can't rock your world if you don't cop the book 😉😘. Link below!

https://www.flowersongpress.com/books-1/elegies

Pre-Order [Elegies] by Roberto Carlos Garcia — FlowerSong Press

Coming in December, Roberto Carlos Garcias’ [Elegies] Garcia’s third poetry collection, [Elegies], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism

*photography by Lily.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #robertocarlosgarcia #afrolatinx #dominicanwriters #blackpoets #afrocaribbean

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My newest book coming soon. Pre order yours!

Pre-Order [Elegies] by Roberto Carlos Garcia — FlowerSong Press

Coming in December, Roberto Carlos Garcias’ [Elegies] Garcia’s third poetry collection, [Elegies], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism

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You can purchase Roberto's books here: 

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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.” Garcia is rigorously interrogative of himself and the world around him, conveying “nakedness of emotion, intent, and experience,” and he writes extensively about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. 

His second poetry collection, black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric, is available from Willow Books.  Roberto’s first collection, Melancolía, is available from Červená Barva Press. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets Vol 4: LatiNEXT, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, The Root, Those People, Rigorous, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Gawker, Barrelhouse, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, and many others.  

He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books Publishing, A NonProfit Corp. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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