{"id":1257,"date":"2014-09-26T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robleswrites.com\/myblog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2014-09-26T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T20:04:12","slug":"1257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/2014\/09\/26\/1257\/","title":{"rendered":"Declarative Sentences: Voices in Memory of Jack Ag\u00fceros"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Declarative Sentences<br \/>\nVoices in Memory of Jack Ag\u00fceros<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jack-Ag\u00fceros-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Ag\u00fceros-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/>Join us as poets, writers, and scholars gather in the Faculty Room at Columbia University&#8217;s Low Library to pay tribute to one of the luminaries of Latino\/a literature and American letters.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first of a series of events planned in memory of Jack Ag\u00fceros, which will include a new production of one of his plays at El Museo del Barrio.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scheduled to appear:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nMart\u00edn Espada, Jesus Papoleto Mel\u00e9ndez, Mike Veve, Lauren Schmidt, Robert Hershon, Donna Brook, Urayo\u00e1n Noel, Chris Brandt, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Julio Marz\u00e1n, David Unger, Patrick Rosal, Ruth Irup\u00e9 Sanabria, Rich Villar, Natalia Ag\u00fceros-Macario<\/p>\n<p>Born in New York City in 1934, Jack Ag\u00fceros was a community activist, poet, fiction writer, playwright, and translator.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday, October 17<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> at 6:00pm &#8211; 8:00pm<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> free to the public<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Low Library, Columbia University<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> 535 W 114th St, New York, New York 10027<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Presented by:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nColumbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br \/>\nInstitute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University<br \/>\nCenter for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University<br \/>\nDepartment of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University<br \/>\nEl Museo del Barrio<br \/>\nNational Urban Fellows<br \/>\nCurbstone Press<br \/>\nThe Medicine Show Theater<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"Divider-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Divider-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"19\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declarative Sentences Voices in Memory of Jack Ag\u00fceros Join us as poets, writers, and scholars gather in the Faculty Room at Columbia University&#8217;s Low Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,37,64,65,120,126,130,139,143,193],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-performance-dates","tag-artist","tag-conversations-with-my-skin","tag-homage-to-the-warrior-women","tag-homenaje-a-las-guerreras","tag-peggy-robles-alvarado","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poets-writers","tag-professor","tag-women-in-creative-rebellion","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robleswrites.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}