Nelly Rosario
Biographic Data
| ID | 978960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelly Rosario |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosario |
| SIGNATURE | ROSARIO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4181-6984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Conversation
Operation Granma G
All Loves Supreme: Comments on Love the 2012 Callaloo Conference
All Loves SupremeComments on Love the 2012 Callaloo Conference Nelly Rosario (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Nelly Rosario Callaloo © 2012 [End Page 565] [matrimonium] Anniversary of Two Non-Poets: A Sonnet Her poem is keeping the hairs of his brows from snarling against her dense Sunday rains. His poem happens when detangling the veins that coil round her calves like avid tree boughs. Hers is chamomile smoke blown into his earac…
Seeing Double: Creative Writing as Translation
Seeing DoubleCreative Writing as Translation Nelly Rosario (bio) A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that give it wings. —Khalil Gibran You write your first book at the age of three, before you can speak or learn to write English. Your mother had given you your first notebook, in celebration of the first day of pre-K at Nuestros Niños Day Care Center. You fill every white page of that notebook with black scribble and give it right back t…
Chewing the Tchat in Ethi
Chewing the Tchat in Ethi Nelly Rosario (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Sword, journal, and church windows in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Nelly Rosario © 2010 The Chat “If you want to chew, come early. Once the tchat hits, we’ll be talking for hours,” says Gabra. She’s flopped on a couch at the New Flower Lounge in Addis Ababa. The place is half-empty in my eyes, half-full in my ears. The World Cup warbles from a wall-sized flat screen, …
Judging a Cover by His Books: An Annotated Bibliography of the Intellectual Macdaddy
Judging a Cover by His Books:An Annotated Bibliography of the Intellectual Macdaddy Nelly A. Rosario (bio) Keywords dating deal-breakers, dick-lit, hack intellectuals, oranges, biblio- and other -philes, pears, post-modernist tropes, Che-Guevara Complex, nutty professors, apples, STDs, academic spoofs This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive overview of the titles most prominently displayed on the bookshelves-real or virtual-of the cosmopol…
The Disengagement of Airman Milton Guerreiro (Part II)
The Disengagement of Airman Milton Guerreiro (Part II)* Nelly Rosario (bio) Hemochromatosis, the doctor determinates. “Too much iron in your blood, Mr. Guerreiro.” No, too much blood in my irons, I explain to her. The doctor, she shows me slides of ghoulish purple molecules stacked in hemogoblins. “All this strong, ferrous blood gone to civilian waste.” She enshakes her head. “I’d consider re-enlisting, Airman Guerreiro. Iron rusts from disuse.” …
Nola Flow: A Callaloo Retreat in New Orleans
NOLA FlowA Callaloo Retreat in New Orleans Nelly Rosario (bio) March 6, 2008: Thursday En route, 5 PM–2AM We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. —Rumi Stuff is in the H2O from the moment we leave San Marcos, Texas, for the straight eight-hour drive to New Orleans. Two Piscean writers take turns driving through sheets of relentless rain, with an eight-year-old bull playing on her DS in the backseat. My white students here a…
Airman Basic Training
Feasting on Sancocho Before Night Falls: A Meditation
Feasting on Sancocho before Night Falls a Meditation Nelly Rosario Setting the table with G.G. Márquez On the one-year anniversary of his 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez had a single obsession: to celebrate with a sancocho stew at the edge of a river in his Colombian native village of Aracataca (Galván, par. 2). One can't help but ask, why so humble a meal for so world-class an achievement? Solitude and sancocho are polar o…
Angie Cruz in Conversation with Nelly Rosario
Angie Cruz in Conversation with Nelly Rosario Angie Cruz Nelly Rosario The following conversation took place in real and constructed time. ANGIE CRUZ: ¿What is your first experience with Callaloo; when was the first time you heard about it? NELLY ROSARIO: All hearsay, calls for submissions. CRUZ: ¿This was when you were at Columbia or MIT? ROSARIO: [R.U.E.—Resist the Urge to Explain. When writing dialogue in fiction, resist deliberate exposition.…
Cotton CLOUDS Working-Class Life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Vintage, Belated Libation, Where I Write, Arrival
VintageandBelated LibationandWhere I WriteandArrival
Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Vintage, Belated Libation, Where I Write, Arrival
VintageandBelated LibationandWhere I WriteandArrival
Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Cotton CLOUDS Working-Class Life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Airman Basic Training
Feasting on Sancocho Before Night Falls: A Meditation
Feasting on Sancocho before Night Falls a Meditation Nelly Rosario Setting the table with G.G. Márquez On the one-year anniversary of his 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez had a single obsession: to celebrate with a sancocho stew at the edge of a river in his Colombian native village of Aracataca (Galván, par. 2). One can't help but ask, why so humble a meal for so world-class an achievement? Solitude and sancocho are polar o…
Angie Cruz in Conversation with Nelly Rosario
Angie Cruz in Conversation with Nelly Rosario Angie Cruz Nelly Rosario The following conversation took place in real and constructed time. ANGIE CRUZ: ¿What is your first experience with Callaloo; when was the first time you heard about it? NELLY ROSARIO: All hearsay, calls for submissions. CRUZ: ¿This was when you were at Columbia or MIT? ROSARIO: [R.U.E.—Resist the Urge to Explain. When writing dialogue in fiction, resist deliberate exposition.…
The Disengagement of Airman Milton Guerreiro (Part II)
The Disengagement of Airman Milton Guerreiro (Part II)* Nelly Rosario (bio) Hemochromatosis, the doctor determinates. “Too much iron in your blood, Mr. Guerreiro.” No, too much blood in my irons, I explain to her. The doctor, she shows me slides of ghoulish purple molecules stacked in hemogoblins. “All this strong, ferrous blood gone to civilian waste.” She enshakes her head. “I’d consider re-enlisting, Airman Guerreiro. Iron rusts from disuse.” …
Nola Flow: A Callaloo Retreat in New Orleans
NOLA FlowA Callaloo Retreat in New Orleans Nelly Rosario (bio) March 6, 2008: Thursday En route, 5 PM–2AM We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. —Rumi Stuff is in the H2O from the moment we leave San Marcos, Texas, for the straight eight-hour drive to New Orleans. Two Piscean writers take turns driving through sheets of relentless rain, with an eight-year-old bull playing on her DS in the backseat. My white students here a…
Judging a Cover by His Books: An Annotated Bibliography of the Intellectual Macdaddy
Judging a Cover by His Books:An Annotated Bibliography of the Intellectual Macdaddy Nelly A. Rosario (bio) Keywords dating deal-breakers, dick-lit, hack intellectuals, oranges, biblio- and other -philes, pears, post-modernist tropes, Che-Guevara Complex, nutty professors, apples, STDs, academic spoofs This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive overview of the titles most prominently displayed on the bookshelves-real or virtual-of the cosmopol…
Chewing the Tchat in Ethi
Chewing the Tchat in Ethi Nelly Rosario (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Sword, journal, and church windows in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Nelly Rosario © 2010 The Chat “If you want to chew, come early. Once the tchat hits, we’ll be talking for hours,” says Gabra. She’s flopped on a couch at the New Flower Lounge in Addis Ababa. The place is half-empty in my eyes, half-full in my ears. The World Cup warbles from a wall-sized flat screen, …
Seeing Double: Creative Writing as Translation
Seeing DoubleCreative Writing as Translation Nelly Rosario (bio) A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that give it wings. —Khalil Gibran You write your first book at the age of three, before you can speak or learn to write English. Your mother had given you your first notebook, in celebration of the first day of pre-K at Nuestros Niños Day Care Center. You fill every white page of that notebook with black scribble and give it right back t…
All Loves Supreme: Comments on Love the 2012 Callaloo Conference
All Loves SupremeComments on Love the 2012 Callaloo Conference Nelly Rosario (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Nelly Rosario Callaloo © 2012 [End Page 565] [matrimonium] Anniversary of Two Non-Poets: A Sonnet Her poem is keeping the hairs of his brows from snarling against her dense Sunday rains. His poem happens when detangling the veins that coil round her calves like avid tree boughs. Hers is chamomile smoke blown into his earac…
Operation Granma G
A Conversation
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