Honoring Black Dominicans 365 days of the year. Dismantle the patriarchy. María Farazdel (Palitachi). Dominican Republic. Poet, speaker and editor. (AWA). Twice awarded in the Latino Book Award, 2017 and 2018. (PD) Long Island University (CWP), (MA) Fordham University, (BA) Hunter College, City University of New York. In Bolivia, she was awarded the 'Universal Ambassador of Culture' endorsed by UNESCO, 2014. In Miami, 'Honorary Ambassador' by SIPEA 2017 and Ambassador of the Hispanic Heritage Literature Organization. Recognition for disseminating Latin American literature, Proclaimed by the mayor of New Jersey, 2017. Translated into English, French, Italian, Serbian, Arabic and Portuguese. Member of the PEN Club of America and the Academy of American Poets. Some of her work appears in more than 22 anthologies. She is the author of the books: “My Little Paradise” “Amongst Voice and Spaces” “Infraganti” “Bodies and Cities”, “Eleven Spotlight” and “Las horas de aquel paisaje”. “The Trilogy: Voces de America Latina (I-III)” and the anthology “Voces del vino.” Member of the Pen Club of America and AIPHE, Miami. Infraganti is a book to be read a few times over. This because it offers modern poetry, in the best of connotations. It's a visceral, in your face, carnal kind of poetry; a series of written photograms that conform a poetic body, lifted from the sensorial to the extra-sensorial. There's a physicality to it: Palitachi knows how to blend the commonplace with the abstract to create in the reader not only a sense of aesthetics but something else, close to the experience itself, the one being described: when she writes the touch, one feels the very touch as it leaps from the words. The title is no luck, either: as you read on, you realize you're being stripped naked; that you've been caught red-handed delving into two people's nude souls, the poet and the object of her words. Infraganti includes three versions in one book: Spanish, English and French. #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blackstudies #blackeducators #mariafarazdel https://www.instagram.com/p/B8aeS-ApmUy/?igshid=ppbvs3ykom16