Alkimista

  • Currently I am working on my life. Amazingly enough some of the things that happen inspire me.

General details


  • Alkimista

  • Playa de Ponce, PR

  • J. I. Arroyo

  • M.A. Spanish

  • Male

  • Spanish

In short

  • Life enthusiast. Born and raised in the Caribbean. I am a veteran and a avid reader. I have no aspirations to fame, I just want feed back on my writings. I am bilingual, but I would prefer Spanish.

  • To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • Fiction: Alternative History, Erotica, Fairytales, Folklore & Mythology, Graphic Novel, Historical Fiction, Humor/Satire, Literary, Novella, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Short Story, Urban

    Non-Fiction: Body, Mind & Spirit, Cooking, Food & Wine, History, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Music, New Age & Spirituality, Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs, Popular Science, Psychology, Reference, Religion, Sex & Relationships, Travel, Women's Studies

    Screenplay: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi, Western

    Poetry: Experimental, General, Narrative, Prose, Song Lyrics

  • A Wizard of Earthsea

    The prophet

    100 años de soledad

    El plan infinito

    El alquimista

    Siddhartha

    Spell of the Sensuous

    Cuentos de amor, locura y muerte

    El Portero

    The Boondocks
  • "Bestiario" from Julio Cortazar. Great book to read late at night.
  • Right near da beach.
  • I prefer short prose that is tragically funny.
     
    Also Slam Poetry. I am a fan of the Vanguard and Modernist eras.
  • Fiction: Experimental, Humor/Satire, Multicultural, Short Story, Urban

    Non-Fiction: Humor, Medicine, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, New Age & Spirituality, Outdoors & Nature, Philosophy, Science, Sex & Relationships, Travel

    Screenplay: Comedy, Musical, War

    Poetry: Experimental, Prose, Song Lyrics

  • Myself at age 60
  • Kahlil Gibran

    Ursula K. LeGuin

    Julio Cortázar

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Saul Williams

    Tennessee Williams

    Isabel Allende

    Herman Hesse

    Tato LAviera

    Judith Ortiz-Cofer

    Julia de Burgos

    Horacio Quiroga

    Jose Hernandez

    Sor Juana Ines

    Reinaldo Arenas

    Jesús Barquet

    etc...