Joseph Cáceres is a queer Puerto Rican writer from the South Bronx. His work has been published in Slice, Cosmonauts Avenue, CURA, and Emerge: 2019 Lambda Fellows Anthology. An alumnus of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, Joseph is also the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts’ Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant for Fiction, and LAMBDA Literary Writers Residency for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. An English PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studies queer American artists of African and Caribbean descent, Joseph has received two Lost & Found: CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Archival Research Grants for his work with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project. Joseph is currently working on several projects revolving around the unpublished works of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s queer founders.
Programming
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Apr 20, 2023,
04:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Black and Latinx Studies Afro-Latinidades Symposium Presents: Lois Elaine Griffith
Seminars & Working Groups
Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe
This Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe working group is looking to document the influence of artists who have emerged from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, from its inception in 1973 and onward.