CSUF Grand Central Art Center
125
N Broadway, Santa Ana, California 92701
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 27TH (6:30-8:30pm)
WORKSHOP
& READING
with
local poets, Javier Pinzón & Odilia Galván Rodríguez
Event
Description:
The
reading will start with an open mic session featuring six local poets paying
tribute to the late Francisco X. Alarcón. Odilia Galván Rodríguez will read her
writing along with a selection of the works in the "Poetry of Resistance:
Voices for Social Justice" anthology published by The University of
Arizona Press in 2016. Alarcón's life partner Javier Pinzón will close with his
own work.
The
reading will address a wide variety of themes, including racial profiling,
xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, violence against refugees, shared
identity, and much more. "Poetry of Resistance" is a political call
for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.
Flor
y Canto poets:
Iuri
M. Lara
Jesus
Cortez
Marilynn
Montaño
Jose
Morales
Natalie
Sánchez Valle
David
Lopez
Before
the reading (6:30-7:30pm), a special poetry workshop with maestra Odilia Galván
Rodríguez! Email libromobile@gmail.com to reserve a spot. All ages over 16
years-old are welcomed.
The
reading (7:30-8:30pm) will be followed by a book sale and signing. GCAC Artist
in Residence, Sarah Rafael García will host the reading.
This
literary reading is supported by Grand Central Art Center and in part by Poets
& Writers through grants it has received from The James Irvine Foundation
and the Hearst Foundations.
About
the featured poets:
Javier
Pinzón came to the United States from Mexico in the eighties. He has had his
poetry published in Bay Area community newspapers of San Francisco, and various
literary magazines among them, Revista Mujeres, of the University of California
at Santa Cruz, and La Palabra, at the University of California, Davis.
Odilia
Galván Rodríguez, poet, writer, editor, and social justice activist, is the
author of six volumes of poetry, her latest, The Nature of Things, along with
photographer Richard Loya. She is co-editor, along with the late Francisco X.
Alarcón, of Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, from The
University of Arizona Press. Odilia has worked as an editor for various
magazines, most recently as the English edition editor of Tricontinental
Magazine in Havana, Cuba. Her activist work stems several decades with
organizations such as the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO. Currently she
facilitates creative writing workshops nationally, and is a moderator of Poets
Responding to SB 1070 and Love and Prayers for Fukushima, both Facebook pages
dedicated to bringing attention to social justice issues that affect the lives
and well-being of many people. Her poetry and short fiction has been
anthologized in many anthologies and literary journals in print and on-line
media.
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POSADA
Saturday, October 29th at 7 PM - 10 PM
Avenue 50 Studio
131
N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, California 90042
Message from Xochitl-Julisa
Bermejo:
Hi
everyone! I'm excited to share that my book, POSADA: OFFERINGS OF WITNESS AND
REFUGE, will be released from Sundress Publications
October 15th, and I will be holding a release party on Saturday, October 29th
at Avenue 50 Studios in Highland Park.
POSADA:
OFFERINGS OF WITNESS AND REFUGE celebrates my family's immigration story from
Jalisco, Mexico to Los Angeles, CA in the 1950s while also giving visibility to
those currently crossing into the country from Central America and the human
atrocities occurring at the Arizona-Mexico border.
The
night will include readings from badass writers Ashaki M. Jackson, Kenji Liu and Melissa Chadburn, a
collective building of a Día de los Muertos altar for those who have passed
along the border, music from Angela
Spiñorita Blanca, food, and of course a book signing. A collection
will be taken to support the work of No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes.
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