Photos by Winston Vargas
Text by JP Infante
Bilingual/ Bilingüe
"Aquí y Allá," a portrait of the Dominican community in Washington Heights, from its germination to its designation as “Little Dominican Republic.” An unprecedented photographic documentation that encapsulates 60 years of the evolution of Dominican culture and identity in Washington Heights. With photographs by Winston Vargas and Texts by JP Infante.
Now available for download in eBook format.
“Aquí y Allá," un retrato de la comunidad Dominicana en Washington Heights, desde su germinación hasta su reconocimiento como la “Pequeña República Dominicana”. Mostrando una documentación fotográfica sin precedentes que recoge 60 años de evolución de la cultura dominicana e identidad en Washington Heights. Con las fotografías de Winston Vargas y textos de JP Infante.
Ahora disponible para descargar en formato eBook.
JP Infante’s debut and winner of the 4th Annual Thirty West chapbook contest, On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue, tells the story of a son grappling with his mother's mental health in New York City.
“On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue is not really a chapbook, it is a pocket universe, a masterclass in sparse yet terse prose poetry. The second person point of view combined with that most potent of narrators, the child witness, recounting with the wherewithal of a now grown-ass man, deposits the reader firmly between the lines. It is there, in that space between the spaces that On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue haunts us, follows us around long after we’ve put it down, in the space of what remains unsaid. And still, there are moments of clean and direct devastation: “Your mother answered the HRA worker’s questions while you waited to be asked, ‘Is your mother crazy?’ You were never asked. Maybe because sanity wasn’t a requirement for food stamps or because the answer was known.” We have here a wonderful introduction to a writer with a fierce intellect and a sharp set of skills.”
— Roberto Carlos Garcia, author of Elegies
“JP Infante captures the complexities of addiction, homelessness, mental illness and racial identity through the lens of a son whose mother is dedicated to one thing; survival. On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue is a lesson in snapshot vulnerability and introspection. JP moves us rapidly through short scenes condensed with an emotional precision that forces us to slow down and contend with our own disasters. Whether on the tip of a tongue, or an iceberg, the magic in this chapbook is in what lives underneath, every word that has yet to be said.”
— Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make it