Julia de Burgos is considered the foremother of Puerto Rico and Nuyorican poetry — but Jon Marcantoni, playwright and founder of Denver’s new Flamboyán Theatre, says she’d fit right in with the social-media “Girl Boss” poetic movement of the modern day. “Some of her work really sounds like it could have been written in the 2020s,” he says, “telling women, ‘Hey, keep on, you got this, sister.’…
Flamboyán Theatre Is Wondering What Happened to Julia de Borgos
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