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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.

Wounded Flowers by Thomas Fucaloro

We asked Thomas Fucaloro about his connection with Charles Bukowski  and he explains through a poem WOUNDED FLOWERS I think it’s important to love the art but not necessarily the one birthing or vomiting it.    I don’t want to know the painter just want to know that it has been painted.    Charles says: Hello, welcome to my wounds, ... Read More »

“Well Worded” Hosted by Advocate of Wordz begins Jan 4

Our Featured Artist Advocate of Wordz hosts “Well Worded”, a video live streaming podcast that will discuss everything about the written and spoken word.  The podcast will focus on producing events, running workshops and the business ethics writers must be aware of. Papo Swiggity Santiago of Capicu Culture, Juliet P. Howard of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and Blog, ... Read More »

They Are Stealing My Ideas! by Advocate of Wordz

If you read the title of this blog and immediately thought to yourself, “yes, they are/have!” then I graciously ask you allow me the space to say “Congratulations!”. Theft of ideas or (a much friendlier term) emulating a style within the world of art is by far more common than and as long in the tooth as an original thought. ... Read More »

I Used to Love H.I.M. by Maria Rodriguez- Morales

I’m in love with the coco. I got it for the low low.   My eleven year old son asks me to raise the volume on the radio. Its two thirty on a Friday afternoon and I have a carload of 6th graders turning up for the weekend.   Baking soda, I got baking soda. Baking soda, I got baking ... Read More »

Self-Love is a Revolutionary Act by Vanessa Pardo

Self- love is a revolutionary act. In a society that is constantly telling you who to be and what to be, loving yourself as you are is beyond imaginable. Why would anyone want to love the skin they were born in? Why would anyone want to love their weight? Why would anyone want to love their natural hair color? Why ... Read More »

“Imagine Yourself in the Arms of Unconditional Love” by Meriam Rodriguez

Meriam Rodriguez essay featured by Rebelle Society. In this world — this living, breathing, ever-spinning existence of a world — I find queries under every rock. Every question that poses itself from the mysterious folds of my brain multiplies into a hundred more. The first couple of months here are a bit hazy. Actually, the first six to seven years of ... Read More »

There Are None so Blind by Jamaal St. John

Our featured artist Jamaal St. John speaks out on Ferguson and more… It is too easy to turn away and pretend we didn’t see anything. Didn’t see another unarmed black teenager gunned down in cold blood by a white police officer whose sworn duty it was to serve and protect him and those like him who lived in the community of ... Read More »

Thomas Fucaloro Published in Boston Poetry Magazine

This poem was published by Boston Poetry Magazine on November  29, 2014 at this link. Manic bi-polar depression with a twist of sage My mother calls me every time she hears lightning. Something inside her crackles and ghost stories become real in the weathered horrors of the night. I don’t know how to write positive poetry about my mother. I don’t ... Read More »

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