LatinX & Proud! Reading Series returns

 

LatinX & Proud! Reading Series With poets Casandra López and Angela Velez, musician FeralCat, and surprise host Eloisa Amezcua   Tuesday, November 17 7:00 PM Streamed Online  via City of Asylum @ Home FREE! Register now for free   Our LatinX & Proud! Reading Series is celebrating its first birthday, and one year of empowering local and national Latinx authors and performers. In honor of the occasion, we've created a powerhouse lineup of poetry and music and we hope you'll join the festivities!  This event is in proud partnership with Casa San Jose-Pittsburgh and PEN America's DREAMing Out Loud project—a series of tuition-free writing workshops for young, undocumented students to amplify the voices of many living in this country who are marginalized because of their immigration status. ¡Ven a celebrar con nosotros! (Come celebrate with us!)   Register now for free     Casandra López is a California Indian (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño) and Chicana writer who has received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf, and Tin House. She's the author of the poetry collection Brother Bullet. Angela Velez is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. Velez's debut YA novel, LULU AND MILAGRO'S SEARCH FOR CLARITY, will be published in Winter 2022, through Balzer + Bray. Feralcat aka Roger Romero has a freelance saxophone player in Pittsburgh, PA, performing as a sideman within a wide variety of genres. Romero's work embodies the American dream; his compositions comprise a melting pot of musical genres closely intertwined with his upbringing as a first generation middle-class child of Dominican immigrants. Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. Amezcua's debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón, (Shelterbelt Press, 2018). Amezcua is the founding editor-in-chief of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry, Associate Poetry Editor at Honeysuckle Press, & founder of Costura Creative.     Casa San Jose is a community resource center that advocates for and empowers Latinos by promoting integration and self-sufficiency. Donate to Casa San Jose via GIVE BIG PITTSBURGH to support immigrant justice and help us be able to continue our work, expand our reach, and honor our communities. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people. We're working hard to make our new virtual home accessible.    If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.   Click here to contact us about accessibility requirements       Copyright © 2020 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to hear more from City of Asylum, either at one of our events or online. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212