Mariposa María Teresa Fernández is an award-winning Afro Puerto Rican poet, spoken word performance artist, visual artist, educator, activist, scholar and Bronx native.

Mariposa’s poetry has been published in numerous anthologies including African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, a Library of America Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, The Afro Latin@ Reader: History & Culture in the United States, Manteca: Anthology of AfroLatin@ Poets and Bumrush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. Mariposa’s poetry has been featured on HBO Latino in the critically acclaimed series Habla Ya! and Americanos: Latino Life if the U.S. Mariposa’s work is also featured in the documentary In Her Own Words: Nuyorican Poet and Activist, a film by Wilfried Raussert and Alina Muñoz Knudsen and Fragments of Belonging: El Alma Dividida de Puerto Rico, a film by Friederike Bischoff and Raphael Vazquez, both produced by Bielefeld University. We are pleased to have Mariposa on Tonight's Episode of Let's Talk About It

TBJ RADIO - JOURNALISM & MEDIA STUDIES -LEHMAN COLLEGE, CUNY

TBJ RADIO - JOURNALISM & MEDIA STUDIES -LEHMAN COLLEGE, CUNY