Radical Poetry & Performance Reading Series: Craig Santos Perez, Reyna Grande, and Sonia Guiñasaca with Program for Writers Students
Radical Poetry & Performance
April 4, 2023
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM America/Chicago
Location
Madison Street Books
Address
1127 W. Madison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Download iCal FileJoin us in welcoming writers Craig Santos Perez, Reyna Grande, and Sonia Guiñasaca.
Craig Santos Perez is the author of three collections of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008), from unincorporated territory [saina](Omnidawn, 2010), and from unincorporated territory [guma'] (Omnidawn, 2014).
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings.
Sonia Guiñasaca is an international award winning queer migrant poet, cultural organizer and social justice activist. Sonia self-published their debut mini chapbook Nostalgia and Borders in 2016. They are a contributor for the new edition of ColonizeThis! Anthology (2019 Seal Press), a contributor to Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge Building a Community Archive (2022 University of Texas Press), featured on Stop Telling Women to Smile (2020 Seal Press), and What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (2023 The University Press of Kentucky).
They will be joined by Program for Writers student Angelica Julia Davila.
Date posted
Dec 9, 2022
Date updated
Jan 13, 2023