Diana Gitesha Hernández: Ten-Minute Live Reading

Part of a weekly series of ten minute readings hosted by great weather for MEDIA.

June's guest host and curator is George Wallace.

Each Wednesday in June, George showcases contributors to the NYC from the Inside anthology (Blue Light Press, 2022).

Diana Gitesha Hernández, aka Gitesha is an NYC poet, bred in Brooklyn, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and longtime resident of Loisada, Manhattan. Hernández, a multi-media performance artist, poet, jazz singer and drum percussionist, is the author of several collections of poetry: Slingshot Luv (1985); Love Poems from a Nuyorican Princess Dreaming of Rimbaud (1994); Raw Lips Melao, a Nuyorican Rhapsody (2004); Mango PI (2008); I Am a Muse (2012) and Hot Steam (2018). Her poetry has been published in Aloud!; Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe anthology, and Breaking Ground, an anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012. Her bands – Gitesha’s Jazz Boogaloo (Latin), Orgasmic Orchestra (word distillery) and Soulful Distancing (jazz) performs regularly in NYC