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Wendy Angulo is a New York City born Latina, raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Wendy is a mother, writer, lawyer and the founder of Wendy Angulo Productions, an organization whose goal is to support, encourage, and promote poetry and visual arts in the borough of Queens. Wendy, re-discovered her love for writing in the summer of 2011 after attending a spoken word event in Queens. She then joined the New York City Latina Writers Group where she has been an active member and has taken on the role as the organization’s Program Director. Wendy is an essayist who is currently working on her Memoir. She has read her work at several venues throughout New York City, including Nuyorican’s Poets Cafe, East Harlem Cafe, Sankofa Sisterhood, Camaradas and has been published in the online journal Mom Egg Review; she is a 2016 VONA alum and the sole creator/curator and producer of Canvas of Words, an art and poetry showcase that birthed of Wendy’s desire to bring the arts back to her beloved borough of Queens. Wendy continues to scout for new talent and build new connections to perpetuate the arts and strengthen the literary community.

Canvas of Words is back !

Wendy Angulo Productions is the proud recipient of the City Artist Corps Grants. With this grant, we will be able to host a new ensemble of our renowned event “Canvas of Words: An Art and Poetry Festival”. This year’s theme is “Your Pandemic Story: What We Witness & What We Carried” to showcase the vitality and resilience of immigrant students from NYC during ... Read More »

Yes, You Actually do Know by Jose Luis Vilson

In my time, I’ve been fortunate to speak in numerous spaces about my experiences as a Black Latinx male educator who teaches in Washington Heights. With those stories, people across the country extrapolate tales from my classroom, connecting to elements of me that span more than a decade of teaching over a thousand students, mostly under-served and marginalized. I’ve spoken ... Read More »

You Can’t Half-ass Vulnerability by Jason Rosario

  You can’t half-ass this vulnerability shit. You are either all the way in or all the way out.  Sinverguenza Back before Facebook and Instagram replaced our basic needs for water and sleep, I was voted “Member of the Month” on the social networking site, MiGente.com. A popularity contest at best, and a hook-up site at worst, I chose my ... Read More »

Writing what We Witness, Interview with Author: Elmaz Abinader

Mi Gente! Welcome to our Spring Interview Series! Super excited to share with you my conversations with Creatives and Entrepreneurs I admire and been blessed and privilege to work with. Today, I have the absolute honor to share my conversation with Elmaz Abinader,  author and performer, Co-founder and former Program Director of VONA (Voices of Our Nations and Arts Foundation), ... Read More »

Trailblazers: Meet the Creatives Episode 9: Illfamed, Emcee and Poet

Mi Gente Happy Sunday! After a quick break today we drop the last episode of Trailblazers: Meet The Creatives featuring Illfamed, Chilean-Peruvian emcee, storyteller, and poet who attended the Business of Art Workshop and while juggling family and her creative work has stay focused and determined to complete her album: Sangre, Corazon y Rimas, Today, exclusively in this interview she shared ... Read More »

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