Postcards in Braille by New York Poetry Press

Sergio Perez Torres

Sergio Perez Torres, a graduate of the School of Philosophy and Literature, has brought poetry from Monterrey to international publishers with "Postcards in Braille".

Postcards in Braille is a bilingual edition that the author developed in New York in collaboration with translator Stalina Villarreal.

New York Poetry Press is a publishing house located in New York City, whose main interest is the Spanish-speaking community and the publication of books in Spanish. It also specializes in bilingual editions such as Postcards in Braille, by Sergio Pérez Torres, a graduate of the UANL School of Philosophy and Literature.

The poet met Stalina Villarreal, a Mexican-Chicana, teacher, and activist who holds a PhD. in Creative Writing. She has translated this coded language called Braille into pure poetry. Now Sergio Perez’s poems are decoded and published by the New York Poetry Press.

The writer was awarded several poetry prizes for his poems La heráldica del hambre XXVI Premio de Poesía “Ydalio Huerta Escalante” (2016); and Party Animals, with which he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Carmen Alardín 2017.

Recently, the writer released his first book entitled Los arcoíris negros (Editorial De Otro Tipo, 2020), in which he explored another side of writing by moving in other rhythms, forms, and structures of language.