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SUMMARY:Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the Chapters Retablos\, The Way Over\, Consuelo\, El Judío\, La Migra\, La Llorona\, Nothing Happens\, The Quince\, Mexican Apology\, El Segundo\, Neto\, My Right Foot\, and Jeep in the Water\nFebruary 19 – March 15\nDirected by Sheila Balter and Jim Cave \nWord for Word’s latest full production is from author & playwright Octavio Solis. Retablos is a coming of age memoir; each chapter a memory tale\, verging on fable\, which paints a dreamlike picture of life in El Paso in the 60’s and ’70’s. Drawing from his own childhood\, Solis says that he wrote these stories “to see how that skinny brown kid riding his bike out there in the desert made sense of his complicated\, deeply beautiful and troubled world.” Octaviosolis.net \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\n\n“A retablo is a devotional painting\, playwright Octavio Solis tells us. In this poignantly written\, heart-warming coming-of-age memoir\, Solis pays tribute to those cornerstone moments in his life\, negotiating borders at once personal and cultural\, with such color that the reader is left spellbound. Astonishing\, what more can I say?”\n—Greg Sarris\, author of How a Mountain Was Made and longtime Word for Word friend \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Evening with Octavio Solis\nJoin us on February 27. The evening’s performance of Retablos will be followed by a conversation with the author\, moderated by Greg Sarris. Both writers are longtime friends of Word for Word. Mr. Solis is a nationally renowned playwright in addition to being a prose author\, and Greg Sarris is Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The evening includes a reception and book signing to cap off the night. \n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-retablos-by-octavio-solis/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Undocumented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:(Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets \nFormer poet-in-residence\, Alan Pelaez Lopez\, will celebrate their debut book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Kemi Bello and Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe\, both key figures in the immigrant rights movement and the immigrant poetry community will read alongside Alan. Afterward\, the poets will share words about what it means to create art and prioritize care for one another in the midst of border violence. \nIntergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien is an experimental poetry collection that pushes the boundaries of the undocumented immigrant experience via the poet’s refusal to belong to United Statian society and the refusal of a structured poetics. In fact\, the chaotic geographies of the manuscript (collages + photographs + emails) formulate theories of fugitivity that position the transAtlantic slave trade and North American Indigenous dispossession as root causes of the poet’s “illegal entry” as a five-year-old to the U.S. In this refusal of national belonging and form\, the book asks for a critical kinship that the law can never account for\, and thus\, Alan Pelaez Lopez negotiates legal status for new imaginaries of care. \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation\, and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. They are the author of the art and poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System\, 2020)\, and the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press\, 2020). Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and “Best of the Net\,” and appears (or is forthcoming) in Best New Poets\, Best American Experimental Writing\, POETRY\, The Georgia Review\, and others. They have received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable\, the Museum of the African Diaspora\, VONA/Voices\, and UC Berkeley. They live in Oakland\, CA. www.alanpelaez.com/ \nKemi Bello is a stubborn sometimes-writer and poet living in Oakland\, California. She believes in the power of narrative to reclaim and connect\, and her writings around the messiness of migration have been published in outlets like The Nation and Autostraddle. Kemi’s poetry performances have taken her to stages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Galeria de la Raza\, Litquake SF\, and the University of Illinois\, Chicago. www.kemibello.com \nDanyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe is a formerly undocumented\, Afro-Dominican writer\, podcaster\, and activist raised in The Bronx\, New York. Her work centers themes of immigration\, race\, and gender. She has been featured on NPR\, Bronx Museum of Arts\, People En Español\, and her work has traveled as far as Aruba’s “Poetry is an Island Festival.” Danyeli has also been the recipient of several social justice fellowships including Immigrant Justice Corps\, Vera Fellowship\, and NYIC Dream Fellowship\, where she researched policy\, provided legal services\, and organized for immigrant rights. In 2019\, she co-founded loose accents\, a Latinx immigrant podcast highlighting stories of immigration from the East to the West Coast. She currently resides in South Los Angeles where she provides legal services to low-income immigrant communities. www.danyelirodriguezdelorbe.com \nThis program will include a wine reception
URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-black-poetics-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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