Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

Winner of the 2023 Franz Kafka International Literary Award, Jorge Luis Arcos‘s El Castigo has been highly praised for its unique and undefinable structure, encompassing the genres of essay, memoirs, epistolary, and novel all at once. Subtitled ‘Letters Exchanged with Lorenzo García Vega and Other Texts, or How to (Re)Construct (Imagine) a Canon,’ the book […]

An illustrated presentation by John McAuliff on the parallel paths followed by Cuba and Ireland in their struggle to seek independence from their colonial masters in Spain and England. The presentation will reveal the role of Irish Cubans in the American revolution, and will focus on how their aspirations for a free Cuba were manifest […]

An in-depth interview with Joy Castro about her critically acclaimed new novel, One Brilliant Flame, inspired by actual events. Set in 1886, the booming cigar industry makes Key West the most prosperous city in Florida. The city also serves as a rebel base for the anti-colonial insurgency in Cuba. Against the backdrop of the Great […]

A poetry reading by Richard Blanco, National Humanities Medal recipient and Presidential inaugural poet. Blanco will read from his rich and intensely intimate collection of new poems, as well as his picks from previous volumes. The poems in Homeland of My Body range in subject and setting, but are all characterized by the poet’s keen eye and […]