15 May 2011
14 April 2011
13 March 2011
01 March 2011
14 February 2011
Upcoming Readings
The Vagina Monologues Festival
When: February 18 & 19
Where: California State University San Marcos
Festival de Arte y Cultura
" Tejiendo puentes y esperanzas" When: Satuday, February 26, 2011
Where: Vista Townsite Community Center
Time: 12:00 - 10:00 pm
Black History Month
When: Monday, February 28, 2011
Where: Palomar College
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
06 January 2011
Manuel Libres Librodo's Rosalinda 1 and Rosalinda 8 (Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines)
Rosalinda 1
Rosalinda 8
To see more of Manuel Libres Librodo Jr.'s work,
visit him at THroUgH mY EYES...
Rosalinda 8
To see more of Manuel Libres Librodo Jr.'s work,
visit him at THroUgH mY EYES...
21 November 2010
Rosendo Tanori: Painter, Muralist, Sculptor (Sonora, México)
La Piedad Moderna/The Modern Pieta
Mural at San Luis Río Colorado (México)
La serpiente que desciende: Escultura Sonora en movimiento/The Descending Serpent: Sonora Sculpture in Movement
Grandmaster Rosendo Tanori at Work!
To see more of Rosendo Tanori's sculptures, visit ELMUSEOVIRTUAL.COM.
Find Rosendo Tanori via facebook.
14 November 2010
VIII Festival de Literatura de Noroeste: Trasladando Fronteras (Tijuana, Baja California)
"Literatura chicana y spoken word" en el Vestíbulo de El Cubo
Tomás H. Lucero, Daniel Charles, Alfonso García Cortez (Moderador), Sonia Gutiérrez y Francisco Bustos
05 November 2010
Upcoming Readings—Baja California, California (Las Califas), and Arizona
Festival de Literatura del Noroeste. Trasladando Fronteras "Literatura chicana and spoken word"
When: Friday, November 12
Where: El CECUT: Vestíbulo de El Cubo—Tijuana, México
Time: 4:00 pm
To read the four-day program, visit Festival de Literatura del Noroeste
Will be sharing the ground with Irene Castruita and Francisco Bustos
Photograph from 30 y tantos, Mujer y Tijuana
Poetic Justice
When: November 18, 2010
Where: California State University San Marcos
The Clarke Grand Salon
Time: 7:00 pm
Poetic Justice Upcoming Performer—Philip Jerge:
"I'm just a spaced out, slowed down Southern Californian."
Coming to CSUSM—Jim Moreno, and Benny Herro
Photograph from the Barton Family Website
CALL FOR POETS, PERFORMERS, ARTISTS
Floricanto/In Xochitl-In Cuicatl, Tucson, Arizona – Saturday, December 4, 2010
Theme: Resistance/Creation in a Climate of Hate and Censorship
Where: El Rio Community Center
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Image from in xóchitl in cuicatl: Flower and Song
When: Friday, November 12
Where: El CECUT: Vestíbulo de El Cubo—Tijuana, México
Time: 4:00 pm
To read the four-day program, visit Festival de Literatura del Noroeste
Will be sharing the ground with Irene Castruita and Francisco Bustos
Photograph from 30 y tantos, Mujer y Tijuana
Poetic Justice
When: November 18, 2010
Where: California State University San Marcos
The Clarke Grand Salon
Time: 7:00 pm
Poetic Justice Upcoming Performer—Philip Jerge:
"I'm just a spaced out, slowed down Southern Californian."
Coming to CSUSM—Jim Moreno, and Benny Herro
Photograph from the Barton Family Website
CALL FOR POETS, PERFORMERS, ARTISTS
Floricanto/In Xochitl-In Cuicatl, Tucson, Arizona – Saturday, December 4, 2010
Theme: Resistance/Creation in a Climate of Hate and Censorship
Where: El Rio Community Center
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Image from in xóchitl in cuicatl: Flower and Song
08 October 2010
Jhonnatan Curiel's poem, "El levantón"/"The Lift," (Tijuana, México)
El levantón
El día que suceda el levantón
voy a estar arriba de mi hamaca emocional
estaré tranquilo con todos y con todo
no voy a resistirme a sus armas
no voy a perturbar a mi conciencia tranquila
El día que suceda el levantón
cuando me violenten les devolveré una sonrisa
y sabré que jamás odié ni me dejé comprar
y por eso
me sentiré dichoso
El día que suceda el levantón
estaré listo pues todo lo que pude hacer lo hice
amé con oleadas pasión
sufrí como las ramas en el árbol seco
aprendí a dar pasos en la sangre
El día que suceda el levantón
tomaré un profundo y blanco respiro
y sabré que me dirijo hacia una muerte segura
yo mismo subiré a la cajuela
yo mismo me pondré la capucha
El día que suceda el levantón
cerraré los ojos como jamás los he cerrado
cerraré todo el cuerpo como un párpado
dejaré que me cubran las sombras
tendré miedo pero hasta el último de mis momentos sabré
que todo lo que tengo es lo que soy
y todo lo que soy me basta
para dejar de existir
The Lift
The day of the lift
I will be on my emotional hammock
I’ll be gentle with everybody and everything
I will not resist their weapons
I will not trouble my contented conscience
The day of the lift
when violence turns upon me I will return a smile
and will know that I never hated and did not sell myself
and for that
I’ll feel privileged
The day of the lift
I will be ready—for everything I could do—I did
I loved with waves of passion
suffered like branches on a dry tree
learned to take steps on blood
The day of the lift
I will take a deep white breath
and will know a definite death awaits me
I myself will get into the trunk
I myself will put the hood on
The day of the lift
I will close my eyes like I have never done
I will close my body like an eyelid
I will allow shadows to overtake my body
I’ll be afraid but until the last moments will know
that everything I have is what I am
and everything I am will be enough
to cease existing
Translated by Sonia Gutiérrez
Karen Márquez and Poet Jhonnatan Curiel
"El levantón" Colectivo Intransigente Performance
To see more of Jhonnatan's work, visit POIESIS and Ojopoema: Blog dedicado para la creación arbitraria de Ojopoemas
To see more of Jhonnatan's writing Tijuana collective, Colectivo Intransigente, find them on facebook.
Colectivo Intransigente's e-mail: colectivointransigente@gmail.com
El día que suceda el levantón
voy a estar arriba de mi hamaca emocional
estaré tranquilo con todos y con todo
no voy a resistirme a sus armas
no voy a perturbar a mi conciencia tranquila
El día que suceda el levantón
cuando me violenten les devolveré una sonrisa
y sabré que jamás odié ni me dejé comprar
y por eso
me sentiré dichoso
El día que suceda el levantón
estaré listo pues todo lo que pude hacer lo hice
amé con oleadas pasión
sufrí como las ramas en el árbol seco
aprendí a dar pasos en la sangre
El día que suceda el levantón
tomaré un profundo y blanco respiro
y sabré que me dirijo hacia una muerte segura
yo mismo subiré a la cajuela
yo mismo me pondré la capucha
El día que suceda el levantón
cerraré los ojos como jamás los he cerrado
cerraré todo el cuerpo como un párpado
dejaré que me cubran las sombras
tendré miedo pero hasta el último de mis momentos sabré
que todo lo que tengo es lo que soy
y todo lo que soy me basta
para dejar de existir
The Lift
The day of the lift
I will be on my emotional hammock
I’ll be gentle with everybody and everything
I will not resist their weapons
I will not trouble my contented conscience
The day of the lift
when violence turns upon me I will return a smile
and will know that I never hated and did not sell myself
and for that
I’ll feel privileged
The day of the lift
I will be ready—for everything I could do—I did
I loved with waves of passion
suffered like branches on a dry tree
learned to take steps on blood
The day of the lift
I will take a deep white breath
and will know a definite death awaits me
I myself will get into the trunk
I myself will put the hood on
The day of the lift
I will close my eyes like I have never done
I will close my body like an eyelid
I will allow shadows to overtake my body
I’ll be afraid but until the last moments will know
that everything I have is what I am
and everything I am will be enough
to cease existing
Translated by Sonia Gutiérrez
Karen Márquez and Poet Jhonnatan Curiel
"El levantón" Colectivo Intransigente Performance
To see more of Jhonnatan's work, visit POIESIS and Ojopoema: Blog dedicado para la creación arbitraria de Ojopoemas
To see more of Jhonnatan's writing Tijuana collective, Colectivo Intransigente, find them on facebook.
Colectivo Intransigente's e-mail: colectivointransigente@gmail.com
29 September 2010
28 September 2010
La Bloga's On-Line Floricanto
from Facebook's Poets Responding to SB 1070
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La Bloga: Chicana, Chicano, Latina, Latino, & More. Literature, Writers, Children's Literature, News, Views & Reviews publishes "Memografía"/"Memography" on September 28 and "Fishing Bait" on August 24. Visit La Bloga! |
07 September 2010
Floricanto Adelanto at Corazón del Pueblo (Poetry Reading at Boyle Heights, CA)
Organizers: Abel Salas and Francisco X. Alarcón
Em Sedano, Abel Salas, and Francisco X. Alarcón
Em Sedano from La Bloga and Sonia Gutiérrez
John Martínez from Aztlán Media Kollective
Fe Montes
Sammy Carrera
24 August 2010
Festival de Flor y Canto by Michael Sedano and "Fishing Bait" from Poets Responding to SB 1070
Festival de Flor y Canto Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow
This week La Bloga features Michael Sedano’s invitation to the Festival de Flor y Canto. Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow / September 15,16,17. La Bloga also presents six poets: Matt Sedillo, Devreaux Baker, Avotcja, Guadalupe Rodriguez Jr., Sonia Gutiérrez and Amy Ballard Rich, from Poets Responding to SB 1070, founded by poet, educator and children’s book author—Francisco X. Alarcón—and Moderators, who include Alma Luz Villanueva, Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Hedy Trevino, Scott Maurer, Abel Salas, and Andrea Hernandez Holm.
© Magu 2009
This week La Bloga features Michael Sedano’s invitation to the Festival de Flor y Canto. Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow / September 15,16,17. La Bloga also presents six poets: Matt Sedillo, Devreaux Baker, Avotcja, Guadalupe Rodriguez Jr., Sonia Gutiérrez and Amy Ballard Rich, from Poets Responding to SB 1070, founded by poet, educator and children’s book author—Francisco X. Alarcón—and Moderators, who include Alma Luz Villanueva, Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Hedy Trevino, Scott Maurer, Abel Salas, and Andrea Hernandez Holm.
30 July 2010
23 July 2010
25 June 2010
Poets' Duel at the Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT)
Organizer: Mara Maciel
Tijuana Poets' Duel: Colectivo Intransigente
Tijuana and San Diego Poets’ Duel : Sonia Gutiérrez, Victor Soto, Lucy Villa and Tomás H. Lucero
Special Guests: José Eugenio Sánchez and Luis Cortés Bargalló
from Café pa todos
"Tijuana y San Diego en duelo poético"
from El Mexicano: Gran Diario Regional
"Enfrentarán sus poesías"
15 June 2010
Ben Arnold's Poetry Circus
“A death defying return to San Diego by poetry impresario Ben Arnold with three rings of spoken word by Jim D. Babwe, Filly 7 and Sonia Gutiérrez."
—Brandon Cesmat, Award Winning Poet for Light in All Directions
Date: June 20, 2010
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm
Where: Hill Street Cafe at 524 S. Coast Highway in Oceanside, California
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