!Litquake’s culminating event, the mother to end all poetry crawls, Lit Crawl happens today here in this city of San Pancho!
Medicina Para Pesadillas is feliz and excited to be hosting three amazing events for the crawl this year;
5-6pm; Sampaguita Press
Queer Filipinx Poetas of Sampaguita Press - Join us for a fierce night of rage and tenderness, grief and joy, with Sampaguita Press poets past, present, and future: Maria Bolaños, Christian Aldana, Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, and Keana Aguila Labra. Contact: sampaguitapress@gmail.com (Maria)
6:30-7:30 Chicano Futurism with El Porvenir !Ya! authors
With many futurisms rising, how can the speculative imagination apply to narratives and thoughts on the future of Chicana/o/x people, who will be the plurality of the future of this land? Local authors featured in the first Chicano sci-fi anthology El Porvenir, ¡Ya! (The Future Now) and the upcoming Chicanofuturism Now! multi-genre anthology accept the challenge of the future and see how other futurisms might intersect and what makes Chicanofuturism distinct. Join social justice writer and future thinker Armando Rendon, author of Chicano Manifesto, Maria Nieto, educator, author of Spectrum of Sex, Juan G. Berumen, educator, speculative screenplay writer and filmmaker, and Scott Russell Duncan, author of Old California Strikes Back, W.O. Torres, author of Tomorrow Lives Today, and Ricardo Tavarez, anthologized author, educator and organizer. Contact: scottrussellduncan@gmail.com (Scott)
8-9pm: !Speaking Axolotl; El Lit Crawl Edition!
La Area Bahia’s long running Latinx monthly Latinx reading series is hosting a special Lit Crawl edition and you and your abuellas are all invited! Come hear Pocho poesia, Latinx verse, Spanglish poemas and bilingual chismes as told by some of La Area Bahia miosy chingon poetas. Featuring readings by Sara Borjas, Angel Dominguez, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta. Hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
BIOS
Sara Borjas is a Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019. Sara was named one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets, is a 2017 CantoMundo Fellow, and the recipient of a 2020 American Book Award. She teaches innovative undergraduates at UC Riverside, lives in Los Angeles, and stays rooted in Fresno. Find her @saraborhaz or at www.saraborjas.com.
Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the Santa Cruz Mountains in Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of Desgraciado (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books, 2022), ROSESUNWATER (The Operating System, 2021) and Black Lavender Milk (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015). They were the 2021 Mazza writer in residence for San Francisco State University and have shared their work across the country in various venues, universities, and states of consciousness. You can find Angel’s work online and in print in various publications. You can find Angel in the redwoods or ocean.
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (they/them/ellx) is a cuír anarquistx virgo Jewish Latinx artist, poet, café worker, and sexual health educator from unceded Tongva lands, now living in unceded Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone lands. Their first book, The Easy Body, was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2017; their second book, La Movida, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in spring of 2022.