{"id":19378,"date":"2026-10-13T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=19378"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:07:11","slug":"manny-grimaldi-reads-orfeito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/manny-grimaldi-reads-orfeito\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Grimaldi Reads Orfeito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Orfeito<\/em> is a sweeping bilingual poetry collection inspired by the enduring Orpheus tradition\u2014from classical mythology to its Black Atlantic reinterpretations. Through interconnected poems, Ricardo Nazario y Col\u00f3n follows a Puerto Rican boy whose journey carries him from the island to New York and beyond, where family history, migration, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, first love, grief, memory, and cultural inheritance converge into an intimate coming-of-age epic. Moving effortlessly between English and Spanish, the collection is rich with music, myth, and spellbinding storytelling, revealing how identity is not inherited whole but forged across borders, languages, and generations.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manny Grimaldi Reads from Orfeito by Ricardo Nazario y Colon\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ZfdykwOjM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orfeito is a sweeping bilingual poetry collection inspired by the enduring Orpheus tradition\u2014from classical mythology to its Black Atlantic reinterpretations. Through interconnected poems, Ricardo Nazario y Col\u00f3n follows a Puerto Rican boy whose journey carries him from the island to New York and beyond, where family history, migration, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, first love, grief, memory, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,107],"tags":[28,761,812,776],"class_list":["post-19378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem","category-review","category-video","tag-accents-publishing","tag-manny-grimaldi","tag-orfeito","tag-ricardo-nazario-y-colon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19379,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}