If you missed this wonderful reading, here’s the live recording, March 7, 2021
Brief Intros via their works
Gianna Russo, One House Down.
Gianna unsettles the past in One House Down. The poems in this book are packed with stories, filled with voices of people and their ghosts. History comes to life on the pages and leaves us like the poet, not knowing how to feel. That, perhaps, is what the poet sets out to resolve. The town of Tampa is the main character on trial, with its many faces and failures, urgent with life, love, music, and gossip too. The ears, above all other senses, record everything.
Aditi Machado, Emporium
Aditi’s Emporium takes us on a tour of expressions in sound and rhythm through the textile of silk as a commodity that’s won and traded in the narratives of bodies and country. There’s a sense of play, as well as pleasure in the voice and its shapeshifting metaphors, in the myth and longing to belong, for we are told that in the beginning there was a sound and the sound was good.
Jesus Sepulveda, Mirror of Details
In Mirror of Details we have a shaman summoning us to pay attention, to be truly present to life and the horrors of our time. The poems invite us to examine social justice issues and our role in making this world a livable and joyful exploration, because our bodies as a people intersect with the bodies of land and water to make our experiences more meaningful.
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