Come on out Monday, May 4th at 7pm to Friends Gallery (7040 Harrisburg Blvd) for a night of readings featuring poet Ching-In Chen, celebrating the release of their recent book, SHINY CITY.
Rejoined by many of the poets from their last HTX, multimedia project, Breathing in a Time of Disaster (with Cassie Mira)
More about the book:
“Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future … Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.”
Featuring local trans & gender-expansive poets Koomah, solidad decosta, Keagan Wheat, Mariposa Tejada, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal!
There will be books for sale, a donation bar &, of course, community!
★⋆. Come on out Monday, May 4th at 7 pm to Friends Gallery (7040 Harrisburg Blvd) for a night of readings featuring poet Ching-In Chen @chinginchen , celebrating the release of their recent book Shiny City.
Rejoined by many of the poets from their last HTX, multimedia project, Breathing in a Time of Disaster with Cassie Mira.
More about the book:
“Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future. . . Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.“
Featuring local poets:
Koomah @_koomah_
solidad decosta @solidaddecosta
Keagan Wheat @kwheat09
Mariposa Tejada @mari__resiste
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal @profstalina
There will be books for sale, a donation bar and of course community!
I had the honor of performing with saxophone and shruti box player @andrewbakrr as well as keyboardist, singer, and poet @solidaddecosta at They, Who Sound tonight. Our trio played Andrew’s and solidad’s harmonious music while solidad sang and recited her poetry, alternating with my reading of my poetry. Someone said it was like volleyball.
Excited to be performing at They, Who Sound on Monday, at 7:30 PM, with fellow poet and musician @solidaddecosta and musician Andrew Baker! See you there at @lawndaleartcenter !!!!
At 7:30 PM on Monday, join Andrew Baker, @solidaddecosta , and me for some sounds and words. I think I am going to read from my memoir and poems. See you at Lawndale Art Center!
Much thanks to the amazing @earthtokb for organizing the “End Cash Bail” performance and exhibit event at Lawndale Art Center! It was a fantastic event, and I’m honored to have been part of it.
