October
Sunday Kind of Love
featuring
Carmen Calatayud &
featuring
Carmen Calatayud &
Fred Joiner
Sunday October 21, 2012
5-7pm
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th St. NW
Washington, DC
Hosted by:
Sarah Browning & Katy Richey
$5
As always, open mic follows!
Join us on Sunday October 21st to hear the fabulous poetry of Carmen Calatayud and Fred Joiner, as they feature at this month's Sunday Kind of Love.
Hot off the press, Carmen will launch her new book and first published poetry collection, In the Company of Spirits.Carmen will be joined by local literary favorite, Fred Joiner, an editor of the Tidal Basin Review. Come experience the poetry of these talented poets.
Carmen Calatayud's first poetry collection In the Company of Spirits was published in October 2012 by Press 53. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Gargoyle, PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, and the anthology DC Poets Against the War.
She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a runner-up for the Walt
Whitman Award and recipient of a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
fellowship. Calatayud is a poet moderator for Poets Responding to SB
1070, a Facebook group that features poetry and news about Arizona's
immigration law that legalizes racial profiling. Born to a Spanish
father and Irish mother in the U.S., Calatayud works and writes in
Washington, DC.
Fred Joiner is a poet/artist/curator living in Washington DC. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora, Gargoyle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas and
in other publications. Fred has read his work throughout the Washington
Metropolitan Area and in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he is working
on a long term multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange between
Northern Irish artists (courtesy of Belfast Exposed Archives and
Gallery) and Washington DC poets. He is a curator of literary and
art-related events including the American Poetry Museum's INTERSECTIONS
Reading Series, Hillyer Artspace's HOME Series, the Phillips
Collection's Voices Series and others. Joiner is also the literary
editor the peer -reviewed scholarly hip-hop journal Words, Beats and
Life and the Tidal Basin Review.
Co-Sponsored by Busboys and Poets
&
Split This Rock
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202-787-5210
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