Elena Díaz Björkquist: Woman Saguaro (Tucson, Arizona)

             "Why should I run?
              Abandon the life,
              The nicho I’d created
              For myself by returning
             To the land of my birth?"
              —EDB's "From the Frontlines of SB 1070"

 

I CALL OUT

by Elena Díaz Björkquist

 

Las Beautiful Comadres!

Linda Leatherman and Elena Díaz Björkquist from Sowing the Seeds Writers’ Group, standing strong like invincible saguaros. Díaz Björkquist holds her April 2012 Arizona Humanities Council Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar Award with Leatherman, recipient of the 2011 AHCDSPHS Award.

"You are another me, and I am another you."
                                                  —Mayan saying

Upcoming Sowing the Seeds Writers’ Group and YWCA Event: Mujeres Writing Conference

          
            "Remembrance: Writing Memoir"

            Date: May 26, 2012
            Place:
            YWCA

            525 N. Bonita Ave.

            Tucson, AZ 85745

            For more information, e-mail sowing@comcast.net.

Books by Elena Díaz Björkquist:

Suffer Smoke  (BANNED IN ARIZONA!)

Water from the Moon

Sowing the Seeds, una cosecha de recuerdos: Sembrando las Semillas, a Harvest

Our Spirit, Our Reality: Celebrating Our Stories

              ". . . Animo to fight for what
              Is right."
              Animo to fight for what
              Is Just."
                          —EDB's "From the Frontlines of SB 1070"