Firestorm • Women’s Voices Rising
Saturday, Oct. 13, 8pm
Firestorm is a poetry reading series featuring women poets, which was originally started in the early 1990s by Juliette Torres. Current organizer Maresa Thompson says, "The world needs women’s voices. They remind us of who we are and where we came from. They speak of what it is to be a warrior, a mother, a wise woman, and look to who we are becoming. This event inspires participation because the poets know they will be heard and understood in a welcoming environment."
READING
Inga Abele
Latvian poet, novelist and playwright Inga Abele is one of the most popular, unconventional and prolific authors of the youngest generation of Latvian writers. She has written four plays including her tragic drama Dark Deer, which has been staged at theatres in Riga and Valmiera, at the Stuttgart State Theatre, and the Bonner Biennale in 2002 and has also been made into a film. Abele has also published one novel and several books of poetry and short stories including, Notes During the Time of Snow, which won the Annual Award for Literature in 2004.
Inara Cedrins
Inara Cedrins is an artist, writer and translator of Latvian descent. She has studied both traditional silk painting in China and thangka painting in Nepal. Two collections of her poetry were published bilingually by the Foreign Literature Press in Beijing. Her latest book of poetry Fugitive Connections was published by the Virtual Artists Collective in 2006. She currently lives in Albuquerque and is writing a book on Albuquerque ghosts for Schiffer Publishing.
SLAM
3 Rounds • 12 Poets • 3 minutes each
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