{"id":4624,"date":"2020-09-01T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/?page_id=4624"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:05:47","slug":"leaning-into-the-unknown-marina-carreira","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/leaning-into-the-unknown-marina-carreira\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaning into the Unknown: Marina Carreira"},"content":{"rendered":"
Poet and Visual Arist\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Marina Carreira is a queer Luso-American writer and multimedia artist from Newark, NJ. She is the author of \u201cSave the Bathwater\u201d (Get Fresh Books, 2018) and \u201cI Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won\u2019t Sing Back\u201d (Finishing Line Press, 2017). She has work featured in\u00a0Queen Mob\u2019s Teahouse,\u00a0Paterson Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Green Mountain Review, Hinchas de Poesia, wildness journal, and Harpoon Review.\u00a0Marina is a recipient of the Sundress Academy for the Arts Summer 2021 Residency fellowship.\u00a0Her chapbook, \u201ctanto tanto\u201d<\/em>, was a Headmistress Press – 2020 Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest Semi-Finalist. As a visual artist, she has exhibited her work at Morris Museum, ArtFront Galleries, West Orange Arts Council, Monmouth University Center for the Arts, and Living Incubator Performance Space {LIPS} in the Gateway Project Spaces in Newark, NJ.\u00a0\u00a0She is founding member of \u201cBrick City Collective\u201d, a Newark-based multicultural, multimedia group working for social change through the arts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTanto Tanto\u201d is Carreira\u2019s new full-length manuscript of poems centered on queer love told through the lens of immigrant culture during the pandemic. Audiences will view her paintings which serve as the backdrop to her staged reading of thirteen new works that highlight the impact that compulsory heterosexuality has on queer first-generation Luso-American women.<\/p>\n Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n Instagram: @savethebathwater Marina Carreira Poet and Visual Arist\u00a0 Biography Marina Carreira is a queer Luso-American writer and multimedia artist from Newark, NJ. She is the author of \u201cSave the Bathwater\u201d (Get Fresh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4624","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/a><\/p>\nBiography<\/h4>\n
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Leaning into the Unknown\u00a0<\/em>Performance Summary<\/h4>\n
\nTwitter: @maketheunknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"