Pinta Tu Propio Mundo

Sat, Sep 3
8pm
$6-$12 - Galeria Members Free

Join host Leticia Hern=E1ndez, dj Maestramind, and a bevy of Bay Area =20=

poetry goddesses as they celebrate, for a fourth year, an evening of =20
women's poetry and performance. This year's event features legendary =20
Nicaraguan poet Daisy Zamora and two of San Francisco's Poet Laureates.

Daisy Zamora (Managua, 1950). During the 1970s revolution in =20
Nicaragua, Zamora was a combatant in the National Sandinista =20
Liberation Front and director of Radio Sandino's clandestine =20
programs. After the triumph, she served as the Vice-Minister of =20
Culture and the Executive Director of the Institute of Economic and =20
Social Research of Nicaragua. She has published three books of =20
poetry, En limpio se escribe la vida, La violenta espuma, and A cada =20
quien la vida, as
well as the anthology, The Nicaraguan Woman in Poetry (La mujer =20
Nicarag=FCense en la poesia).

devorah major is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco. In =20
addition to being a poet she is a performer, lecturer, fiction and =20
creative non-fiction writer and editor. The recipient of a 2002 =20
California Arts Council Spoken Word Literary Arts Fellowship, her =20
first novel (1995), An Open Weave (Seal Press), received the First =20
Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library =20
Association. Her first solo book of poetry, street smarts (1996), =20
received the PEN Oakland 1996 Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in =20=

Literature.

Janice Mirikitani is an award-winning poet, editor, choreographer, =20
activist and administrator. In 2000 she became San Francisco's second =20=

poet laureate. She has compiled and edited children's writing about =20
crack cocaine (I Have Something to Say About this Big Trouble) and =20
adult writings about incest (Watch Out, We're Talking). She has =20
received more than 35 awards and honors for her art and community =20
service. A third generation Japanese American who was incarcerated =20
during World War II in an internment camp, she graduated from UCLA =20
with honors and earned a teaching credential from UC Berkeley.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it =20
received from the James Irvine Foundation.

Venue:

Galeria de la Raza
2857 24th St.
San Francisco
415-826-8009
http://www.galeriadelaraza.org

Additional Info:

415-826-8009
http://www.galeriadelaraza.org