Day of the Dead 2023 at the Writers Place por Xánath Caraza

Day of the Dead 2023 at the Writers Place por Xánath Caraza

 

Este 2023 el Writers Place llevará a cabo la XIV edición de la Celebración de Día de Muertos, Day of the Dead Celebration, el viernes 3 de noviembre a las 7 p.m. CST en Zoom. Tendremos como poetas invitados a Lorna Dee Cervantes, Daniel Olivas y la que escribe. Así mismo Flor Lizbeth Cruz Longoria nos acompañará con música. El grupo de danza mexica, Calpulli Iskali, nos presentará un video. Con mi altar mostraré algunos elementos que hace esta celebración tan importante.  Ojalá nos acompañen y se registren de manera anticipada a la sesión. Gracias a Maryfrances Wagner, S. Holland, Greg Field y, por supuesto, al Writers Place por apoyarnos con la organización.

 

La música:

Flor Lizbeth Cruz Longoria holds a BM and BME from Texas A&M University-Kingsville, an MA in Music from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory and studied Nonprofit Management and Innovation from the UMKC Bloch School. They were selected as an Emerging Artist for the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival (2013), won the TAMUK Concerto Competition (2015), was selected as first flute for the NFA Collegiate Flute Choir (2016), and was an intern for NFA (2017, 2018). Flor’s convention presentations include TMEA, MMEA, NFA, the Kansas Flute Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, and the College Music Society. They received performance and teaching fellowships from the New York Summer Music Festival (2013, 2014) and Blue Lakes Fine Arts Camp (2015).

Ms. Cruz served as Adjunct Professor of Flute at TAMUK, is an Ambassador for Notes for Growth Foundation, and is a member of New Music USA’s Program Council, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for Sigma Alpha Iota International Fraternity, and NFA’s IDEA committee. Flor is the Founder of Colectiva Huēhuecoyōtl whose purpose is the advancement of People of the Global Majority in the music industry. She has performed under the batons of Steven Reineke and Joseph Silverstein and alongside Project Trio. Ms. Cruz’s principal teachers were Dr. Cristina Ballatori, Dr. Elizabeth Janzen, and Dr. Mary Posses. 

 

Calpulli Iskali es un grupo de danza mexica.

Los poetas:

Lorna Dee Cervantes, awarded NEA Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest grant for poetry, state arts grants and best book awards, is the author of 6 books of poetry including her first, EMPLUMADA, and latest APRIL ON OLYMPIA (Finalist, Theodore Roetke Award for Best Book - Poetry in past 3 years). The former professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at CU Boulder now writes in Seattle.

Daniel A. Olivas is playwright, attorney, and the author of ten books including How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press), and Crossing the Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press). He is also the editor of Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press). Olivas has written for many publications including The New York Times, Alta Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, La Bloga, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Follow him on Twitter: @olivasdan.

 

Xánath Caraza is a traveler, educator, poet, short story writer, and translator.  She is the author of twenty books of poetry and two short story collections. She writes for La Bloga and Revista Literaria Monolito. In 2018 for the International Latino Book Awards she received First Place for Lágrima roja for “Best Book of Poetry in Spanish by One Author” and First Place for Sin preámbulos / Without Preamble for “Best Book of Bilingual Poetry”.  Her book of poetry Syllables of Wind / Sílabas de viento received the 2015 International Book Award for Poetry. She was Writer-in-Residence at Westchester Community College, NY, 2016-2019.  Caraza was the recipient of the 2014 Beca Nebrija para Creadores, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Spain.  She was named number one of the 2013 Top Ten Latino Authors by LatinoStories.com. Caraza has been translated into English, Italian, Romanian, and Greek; and partially translated into Nahuatl, Portuguese, Hindi, and Turkish.   

El altar:

 

Como cada año construiré un altar para honrar a los ancestros y dejar que lleguen a visitarnos y disfruten con tamales, pan de muerto, papel picado, poesía y música.