Author: | Magdalena Gomez | ISBN: | 9781311425836 |
Publisher: | Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. | Publication: | February 8, 2015 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
Author: | Magdalena Gomez |
ISBN: | 9781311425836 |
Publisher: | Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. |
Publication: | February 8, 2015 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
Language: | English |
Ms. Gómez is a poet, actor and playwright. Her poems and plays have been performed nationally, with seven of the poems in Shameless Woman included in the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, Dancing in My Cockroach Killers, co-produced by Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
Ms. Gómez is the co-founder of Teatro V!da, the first Latin@ theater in the history of Springfield, Massachusetts and the founder of the Ferocious Women’s Group, dedicated to creating venue for the voices of women and girls through writing and performance. She is a commentator with New England Public Radio; a columnist with Point of View newspaper, and a public speaker, known for creative keynotes on a diversity of topics connected to responsible leadership, education, culture and personal liberation.
"Magdalena Gómez offers us miraculous combinations: social protest with endearing humor; authentic human insights of both U.S. and Puerto Rican society, and feminist inspiration with universal truths. ..." Muriel Fox, co-founder, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
"Gómez is a poet with a thousand tongues; a mouth full of razors and flowers. Shameless Woman is a provocative and deliciously scandalous, hip and feisty celebration of love, redemption and defiance ...." Jose Angel Figueroa, poet and professor, Boricua College
Ms. Gómez is a poet, actor and playwright. Her poems and plays have been performed nationally, with seven of the poems in Shameless Woman included in the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, Dancing in My Cockroach Killers, co-produced by Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
Ms. Gómez is the co-founder of Teatro V!da, the first Latin@ theater in the history of Springfield, Massachusetts and the founder of the Ferocious Women’s Group, dedicated to creating venue for the voices of women and girls through writing and performance. She is a commentator with New England Public Radio; a columnist with Point of View newspaper, and a public speaker, known for creative keynotes on a diversity of topics connected to responsible leadership, education, culture and personal liberation.
"Magdalena Gómez offers us miraculous combinations: social protest with endearing humor; authentic human insights of both U.S. and Puerto Rican society, and feminist inspiration with universal truths. ..." Muriel Fox, co-founder, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
"Gómez is a poet with a thousand tongues; a mouth full of razors and flowers. Shameless Woman is a provocative and deliciously scandalous, hip and feisty celebration of love, redemption and defiance ...." Jose Angel Figueroa, poet and professor, Boricua College