Author: Robleswrites

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a tenured New York City educator and award winning poet who inspires triumph and embodies strength. She is a 2021 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a two- time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a 2020 Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner. She is also a BRIO award winner with fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, VONA, Academy for Teachers and The Home School. Peggy is a three- time International Latino Book Award winner who authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), and Homage To The Warrior Women (2012).

We had a hateful comment shared to our promotion for

LIVE BIG GIRL: A CHAIR THAT FITS

If you think this show promotes “an unhealthy lifestyle” then you missed the point.

Live Big Girl: A Chair That Fits tells of life as experienced by bigger bodied women in a world filled with opinions.

This show focuses on the multiple ways bigger bodies are excluded, criticized and how we as poets and performers want to LIVE NOW and address this through art, instead of waiting for bigger bodies to fit into acceptable shapes and sizes before being heard, seen and celebrated!

If you don’t know what the show is about- then come see it.

If you don’t like bigger bodies – then don’t watch our promos but what

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO IS STOP US!
MOVE,
WE GOT WORK TO DO OUT HERE!

These comments are solely those of me –
Peggy Robles-Alvarado the dramaturg and director who knows that #magicmakingisnotforpendejas

and

Live Big Girl: A Chair That Fits is healing magic!

October 14th and 15th 2023 – Lehman Stages

get tickets HERE!

Excited to be part of SolFest 2023!!!

Thank you @solprojectnyc !!!

(Yup, my name is misspelled in all the press- but it’s me 😁)

Check out their complete schedule of FREE events on my link tree BUT I am highlighting these two below:

On Monday August 28th at 7 pm at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

I will be performing a short excerpt from my solo poetic experiment MUSTBE>THAN21GRAMS

and SolFest will welcome other works from the inaugural cohort of playwrights from the Latinx Playwrights Circle Summer Jam.

And

On Wednesday August 30th at 8 pm at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

There will be a Post-Show Aftercare Discussion With Poet and Facilitator Paul LaTorre @paulconqueso in collaboration with Robleswrites Productions Inc.

Hope to see you there!

This is the most beautiful project I have been blessed to be a part of!

Please follow the amazingly talented @_fei.li_

She is doing amazing work with her project

-When They Have Their Own Historians-

A multidisciplinary, multisensory, all femme, creative experience!

I am in deep gratitude to Fei for including my poem -Why I Avoid Writing About Birds-

(This poem was originally published by @johnmadera1 in Big Other – Puerto Rican Writers Folio – A Hauntology)

The project is stunning and the package itself is a sensory delight! Each poem is accompanied by original artwork!