The Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF) has joined the resistance to closing an important cultural/education institution:
Dear Friends,
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies has served our communities as a leading research and policy institution and a model for connecting academic work with community needs. Its library and archives document the NYC Puerto Rican Diaspora.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is now trying to cut Centro one piece at a time, which is alarming, especially in a period of renewed social movement for racial and economic justice.
Please click on the link to sign the petition.
Gerald Meyer, VMF Co-Chair
VMF members continued, throughout the pandemic, to emphasize the links between cultural expression and political activity with forays into journalism, poetry and criticism. Such activity was not limited to the members and works mentioned forthwith.
Gerald Meyer’s piece, Alice Neel: Painting People Left Out of the Picture | The Indypendent in “The Indypendent.”
VMF members Roberto Ragone and Stephen Siciliano penned for a March 20 edition of L’Idea Magazine, Italian Americans: The Progressive Tradition-Reflections on Gerald Meyer’s Presentation at the New Haven Public Library
VMF member Maria Lisella conducted a six-week workshop, “A Prompt, a Poem, and Poets," which appears to have resulted in the subsequent formation of a “Thursday Morning Poets” group buzzing with ideas and plans.
The sessions were done in conjunction with the Queens Public Library.
The Zoom meetings ran 90 minutes and attendees warmed up with a read poem, a brief writing exercise in response to a prompt, and then 30 minutes to write a poem from a second prompt.
Those who chose to share, and most did, were the recipients of commentary, if there were any and the energy was friendly, positive and, at times, emotional.
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"The Goodfather (A Novel): The Rising Fall of the Marvelous Marcantonio," can be found here: MARC LIVES
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