A Book Launch Reading and Solidarity Building Evening. Please join Xochiquetzal Candelaria as she reads from her new collection, Show Me the Bells, and talks about how in the words of June Jordan, “We Are the One’s We’ve Been Waiting For.” 

Xochiquetzal Candelaria is the author of two books of poetry, Empire and Show Me the Bells. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Tin House, Colorado Review and other magazines. She is the recipient of awards including an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the LEF Foundation. Her poetry and essays have been anthologized, most recently in Other Musics: New Latina Poetry, The Poetry of Capital, and The Awesome Difficult Work of Love: June Jordan’s Legacy. She teaches writing at CCSF and lives in San Francisco, California.