Join us for a night of Flor y Canto aqui en La Misión as we celebrate Aideed Medina’s new book of poesia “Segmented Bodies”. published by Prickly Pear Publishing. Aideed will be joined by her poetry hermanas Adela Najarro and Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl.
!Palabra, danza y música to invoke the whole heart!
Poet, spoken word artist, and playwright, Aideed Medina’s work has appeared in various publications, including Issue #26 of The Common: Farmworkers Portfolio and Somos Xicanas Anthology, Riot of Roses Publishing House. Her work has been a part of Eclectic Collective theatrical productions, The Opera Remix, Fresno Grand Opera, and 559 Mural Project murals. She is the author of 31 Hummingbird, Editorial Xingao, Segmented Bodies, Prickly Pear Publishing, and a forthcoming binational chapbook, selected poems from Segmented Bodies published by Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico.
Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, or Diosa X for short, is a multilingual and multidimensional spoken word artist, workshop facilitator, and international poetiza. She is a seasoned language arts educator with a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Cross-Cultural Teaching. Diosa X was selected Regional 2nd Runner Up in Inlandia’s Hillary Gravendyke’s Poetry Prize in 2023 for her poetry collection titled, When the Leaves Come Tumbling Down: An A to Z Poetry Collection About Loss. She was also selected as finalist for Somos en escrito’s Best Raza Short Story Award in 2023 for her piece titled, The Weight of the Scales. Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl is currently serving as a board member for Círculo de poetas and Writers, works as a Poet-Teacher with California Poets in the Schools, and is a writing coach for Quill & Company. Not only has she been published in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines in the U.S. and in Mexico, she is also the author of six poetry collections, with her seventh being released in 2024. To learn more about Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl’s work, feel free to visit www.diosax.net.
Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She serves on the board of directors for Círculo de poetas and Writers and works with the Latinx community nationwide, promoting the intersection of creative writing and social justice. She has published four poetry collections, and the Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Collaborative has selected Variations in Blue for publication in 2025. The California Arts Council recognized her as an established artist for the Central California Region and appointed her as an Individual Artist Fellow. More information about Adela can be found at her website: www.adelanajarro.com.