Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

The Cuban Cultural Center of New York bestows its first El Titán award to publisher, editor, and poet Felipe Lázaro, on the 35th anniversary of the founding of Editorial Betania in Madrid, Spain in January of 1987, which served to publish the works of hundreds of exiled Cuban writers and of many others silenced inside […]

Our traditional tribute to José Martí (1853-1895) on his birthday. Founding father of Cuba and leader of its last war of independence, Martí  is also a towering figure in Cuban and Latin American literature. In his short life, he excelled as a poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary. Throughout the 1880’s and early 1890’s he worked […]

  A special presentation of Anne Fountain‘s dual-language 2005 edition of José Martí’s Versos Sencillos, in the wake of last year’s 130th anniversary of its original publication in New York City in 1891. A distinguished Martí scholar and translator, Fountain’s sensitive translation of Martí’s 1891 collection of poems is widely considered the most faithful English […]