SHIBBOLETH: liz's meanderings

September 25, Sunday 5:00 PM HITCHED: LATINO L.A.

2011-09-22T23:20:00.000-07:00

HITCHED: LATINO L.A. will celebrate Latino heritage month by featuring a wide range of Latino poets and writers including PALABRA editor-in-chief ELENA MINOR with RUBEN R. MENDOZA, author of The Art of Exile WILLIAM ARCHILA with emerging poet HAROLD TEREZÓN, and LIZ GONZALEZ with LAURA LONGORIA.

Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center

Venice Blvd.

Venice, California

ELENA MINOR is publisher and founding editor of PALABRA, a magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art. Her fiction and poetry have been published in RHINO, Mandorla, Hot Metal Bridge, OCHO, Quercus Review, Puerto del Sol, Diner, City Works, Poetry Midwest, 26, Segue and BorderSenses, among others. A seasoned arts administrator, she also teaches creative writing to high school students. She is also a first prize recipient of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in drama..
Elena Minor

RUBEN R. MENDOZA is a Chicano writer from East San José, California. Since 1990, he has lived, worked, and performed in Los Angeles as a writer, scholar, educator, community organizer, and digital documentarian and artist. He has taught Chicana/o Studies at East Los Angeles College and English composition at California State University, Northridge. Currently, he is a student in the English doctoral program at UC Riverside, where his scholarly work focuses primarily on performance, storytelling, rhetoric, urban space, and digital media production, in the decolonial praxis of contemporary Chicana/o art.
Ruben R. Mendoza

WILLIAM ARCHILA was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, and earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have been published in The Georgia Review, AGNl, Poetry International, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, and Portland Review among others. He is a PEN Center USA West Emerging Voices fellow. He has been awarded the Alan Collins Scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has also received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. In his first book The Art of Exile Archila asks readers to engage with a subject seldom explored in American poetry: the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980’s and its impact on Central American immigrants who now claim this country as home. The Art of Exile is the recent winner of the Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer’s Center and the International Latino Book Award. It is also featured in “First Things First: The Fifth Annual Debut Poets Roundup” — the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Poets & Writers.
"A poet of the heart and head, of the personal and public, at times WILLIAM ARCHILA'S poignant poems make me hear and feel an echo of Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo," from the introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize winner.
William Archila

LIZ GONZALEZ's family has been in Inlandia for 5 generations, since early 1900. liz’s work has most recently appeared in Inlandia Literary Journal, BorderSenses Literary Art Magazine, and Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug Anthology and has been honored with the Arts Council for Long Beach's 2005 Professional Artist Fellowship, an artistic grant from The Elizabeth George Foundation, and a residency at Hedgebrook: A Retreat for Women Writers. She is also a member of the Macondo Writer’s Workshop. liz teaches comp. at Long Beach City College and creative writing at community workshops and through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. For more info: lizgonzalez.com

Liz Gonzalez
HAROLD TEREZÓN was born in Los Angeles, CA. He has studied at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. He was awarded the Rosenthal Emerging Voices in 2006. His work has appeared in Blue Print Review, Amistad, Borderlands, Puerto del Sol, and PALABRA. He currently teaches poetry and the importance of higher education to students in the Salvadoran Corridor and resides in Reseda, CA, working on his first collection of poetry.
Harold Terezón
A native Angeleno, LAURA LONGORIA has been writing since high school, sporadically, but writing and was first published in her high school literary magazine. Laura was also published in a poetry portfolio anthology of the Echospace Poetry Collective and has read her work on KPFK. For more than four years, Laura co-hosted and produced the La Palabra monthly poetry reading at Avenue 50 Studio. During those four years, poets Alurista, Naomi Quinones, Luis Rodriguez, and a plethora of other Los Angeles area poets were featured at La Palabra.
Laura is currently working on a book of her poems.
Laura Longoria

Reading, Friday, July 29, 7-8:30 FREE

2011-07-23T02:11:00.000-07:00

Spellbound ( Free Admission )

Manazar Gamboa Theater
Homeland Cultural Center
1323 Gundry Ave. Long Beach, 90813

This Spellbound event will feature members of the Homeland Players, published and critically acclaimed poets, and emerging writers all living Long Beach, San Pedro, Wilmington, and nearby communities

Spellbound is part of FLOW, a series of SlangAIR events organized by Slanguage Artist In Residence Mario Davila

SlanguageStudio.com

Readings Saturday, July 16 & Friday, July 29

2011-07-14T03:52:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 16 · 1:00pm - 4:00pm Inlandia: A Literary Journey celebratory reading and reception Light refreshments will be served. Arlington Library 9556 Magnolia Avenue Riverside, CA Friday, July 29, Evening Slanguage Event The Manazar Gamboa Community Theater Long Beach Details TBA

I'm reading in Long Beach, CA, This Friday, July 8 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

2011-07-07T10:38:00.001-07:00

Friday, July 8 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Exhibit [A]

555 N. Pine Avenue

Long Beach, CA

After the Carnival's 2nd Friday Reading at Exhibit [A]: A Night of Dedications

Mixing things up a little this month ATC(LE) is theming the evening. We have given one simple directive to our participating writers: bring us work that you've dedicated to something or someone. Our features for the evening are liz gonzalez, Frankie Hernandez, Jade Hidle, and Sarah Miller.

It's a diverse and dynamic bunch and we can't wait to see what they bring us. Check out their bios below:

liz gonzález, a fourth generation So Cal native, grew up sixty miles east of Los Angeles in Rialto, California. Currently, she lives and writes in Long Beach, California. liz’s work most recently appeared in the literary and art magazine BorderSenses and the anthology Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug. She teaches composition at Long Beach City College and creative writing at community centers and through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. For more info: lizgonzalez.com

Frankie Hernandez is a poet from East L.A. She writes to create a world that inspires her and to say what others only think. She is a mother. She is an award winning film producer, now writing and producing for television.

Jade Hidle received her MFA from CSU Long Beach and is currently working on her doctorate in Vietnamese American literature at UC San Diego. She is a regular contributor to the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)'s blog site, diacritics.org, and her work has also appeared in Spot Literary Magazine, Word River, and World Parade Books' Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry. As of today, her greatest loves include purple-flavored popsicles, the exclamation "toronja!", and good ol' scatology. The works she will read for tonight's "Dedication" event are "For My Mother on the Day I Shit My Pants" and "To My Chicanas, Past and Present."

When told to calm down, Sarah Miller becomes a mouthy saloon girl. The rest of the time she's a fairly nice lady. She has an MFA in Fiction from CSU, Long Beach where she spent a few years indulging her desire to write pretty sentences she enjoys reading aloud. Her biggest claim to fame is making the list of the top 25 in Glimmer Train’s December 2008 Fiction Open. Her poetry has been published in Bender, Sheila-Na-Gig, and Rip Rap--two of these are now defunct, and she hopes she had nothing to do with that.

THIS Sat, July 11, 7:30p: Words with a Purpose

2009-07-10T12:02:00.001-07:00

Click on the image for a full view or see the blog:
http://wordswithapurposewriterscollective.blogspot.com/

My 3 Minutes of Fame

2009-06-05T15:16:00.000-07:00

If you're on Facebook, click on the link to see a video of me reading my poem "The Summer Before 9th Grade": https://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=94360047867&comments

Chacho's & my white Christmas in Idyllwild, So Cali, December 2009

2009-01-02T19:55:00.000-08:00

DNA Project

2006-03-18T23:20:00.000-08:00

My good friend visual artist Linda Parnell is collecting DNA for her next sculpture. It's a great project. I encourage you to participate. Here's the lowdown: The inspiration for this idea came in a dream while reading the myth of Psyche and Eros. "Psyches’ qualities were that of lightness, transparency and spirituality and it’s those qualities I concentrated on while looking for materials to work with for this new piece." For more info and photos, please check out her website at: http://www.dnaproject.org/

Sky, Soundscapes, East Los, & Poetry

2006-03-12T11:22:00.000-08:00

Yesterday it hailed for about three minutes. Glorious hail splattered on the rooftops! So many shades of pink, gray and blue tinted the sky, it seemed as though someone above the clouds had dropped her pastels. We had a magnificent weather show.

From Sesshu Foster, man about East Los Angeles and beyond. (If you don’t know who these people are, check it out. You’ll be glad you learned about them.):

Check out a terrific piece by diane gamboa, as well as work by marisela norte, myself (fotos by arturo romo) and teto:

Sesshu:
http://www.kcet.org/explore-ca/california-stories/ritesofpassage/maps/timestudy.php

diane's punk photos and marisela's vex memories here:
http://www.kcet.org/explore-ca/california-stories/ritesofpassage/

others:
http://www.kcet.org/explore-ca/california-stories/ritesofpassage/maps/index.php

Scroll down the blog for an interview of Sesshu Foster discussing his new novel and more.