Join us for our second We Lit event of 2025, as we welcome author (and CCCADI Board Member) Peggy Robles-Alvarado for an exploration of her new book “Burn Me Back”.
Featured Author
Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a three-time International Latino Book Award winner, and a BRIO award recipient. Her latest poetry collection, BURN ME BACK, is set to debut in September 2025, published by Four Way Books. She has earned writing fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights, The Frost Place, The Ashbery Home School, VONA, Candela Playwrights, Dramatic Question Theater, and NALAC. With two master’s degrees in education and an MFA in performance and performance studies, Peggy’s work appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, ¡Manteca!, great weather for MEDIA, and What Saves Us, as well as online in Poets.org, The Quarry at Split This Rock, The Common, Tribes.org, and NACLA.org. She has been featured at Solfest Latine Theater Festival, The Dodge Poetry Festival, Lincoln Center, HBO Habla Women, The Smithsonian Institute, PEN America, Harvard University, and AWP. Through her 501c3, Robleswrites Productions Inc., she created Lalibreta.online and The Abuela Stories Project. Learn more at robleswrites.com and robleswritesproductions.com
“Burn Me Back”
A collection of poems that transforms grief into resilience through what Robles-Alvarado calls working-class wisdom. Rooted in verbivocovisual poetics, Latina narrative and family lore, these poems navigate the Puerto Rican and Dominican Diasporas, colonialism, patriarchy, and displacement, while reclaiming memory and identity.
Multiple copies of “Burn Me Back” will be available for purchase.
We Lit is a CCCADI series dedicated to exploring authors of the African Diaspora who have beautifully woven their experiences, cultures, and dreams into their works. This series is a call to writers, griots, storytellers, and lovers of the written word to spark collective conservation, reflection, and celebration for African Diasporic literature.
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Event Details:
Thursday, October 16, 2025
6:00 - 8:30 PM
CCCADI Firehouse 120 East 125th St
FREE | RSVP Required