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¡Poesía está en la calle!
Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Texas
(512) 416-8885
revolu@swbell.net
Jun 9th, 2011 @ 1:45 pm
June 2011 Calendar of Events
7pm Friday June 10, 2011 Red Salmon Arts presents a DOUBLE Slough Press book signing and reading With poet/writer Chuck Taylor (Texas A&M University) author of the novel memoir Saving Sebastian: A Father’s Journey with His Son Through Drugs and Chicano poet/writer Chris Carmona, author of the poetry collection BEAT: poems Chuck Taylor teaches creative writing at Texas A&M University. He also taught creative writing at the Universities of Texas at Austin, Tyler, and El Paso before coming to Texas A&M University. He has been a writer-in-the schools and a CETA poet-in-residence for Salt Lake City. From 1980-1988, he co-owned and operated Paperbacks Plus Bookstore in Austin, Texas. Christopher Carmona hails from the Rio Grande Valley in Deep South Texas. He is a poet following in the tradition of beat poets like Jack Kerouac, Bob Kaufman, and raúlrsalinas. His work also explores what it means to be Chicano and how reconnecting to our indigeneity is important. Connecting with not only the indios of Mexico and South America, but also Native Americans in the U.S. as well as the world. He believes in practicing poetry as a form of social resistance. Currently Carmona is editing an anthology of Beat Texas writings for UT Press with Chuck Taylor and Rob Johnson. He has been part of the Savory Perks Reading Series, the Narcisco Martinez Cultural Arts Poetry Reading Circle, the reading series for Wordspace in Dallas, the Prairie View A&M University Reading Series, and the Lunada: Aullidos a La Madre Luna at the Café Citlali in San Antonio. http://sloughpressbooks.googlepages.com/home _________________________________________________________________________ 7pm Tuesday June 14, 2011 Red Salmon Arts presents a book signing & reading With performer/poet Jessica Helen Lopez (Albuquerque, NM) author of Always Messing with them Boys Jessica Helen Lopez is a three time member of the City of Albuquerque Slam Team and the 2008 National Champion Winning UNM Lobo Slam Team. She is a Poetry and Creative Writing Instructor at Robert F. Kennedy Charter High School. Mother to a vivacious eight year-old daughter, Lopez’s work has been published in UNM Press’s A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Slam Scene, Chicago Open Mic America Vol I, Feminism Now, and Destructible Heart Press’s Albumar Familia. Lopez is also a member of the Macondo Foundation, founded by Sandra Cisneros, an association of socially engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community. Some other activities and panels she has been apart of are the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s VOCES: A Writing Institute for Youth, Feature/Workshop Instructor for the 12th Annual Las Mujeres 2007 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and has also provided Poesía sin Fronteras workshops/performances for the Verse/Converse Taos Poetry Bout and Festival 2009. Lopez continues to organize not-for-profit poetic events and projects in and around Albuquerque, NM.
