What i been working on. Palabristas Outside the Lines Chapbook Release! 9/5/08

PALABRISTAS, Latin@ Wordslingers

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

August 05, 2008

 

 

For immediate release                                                Contact:            Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria

                                                                                                651-353-7373

rsanchezchavaria@comcast.net

 

 

MINNESOTA’S ONLY LATINO spoken word and poetry group releases first collection

Outside the Lines debuts at an evening of music and poesía at the Loft Literary Center

 

 

From the Westside to Machu Picchu, From El Yunque to El Salvador, Palabristas meld, mold, mezclan and sazonan the spoken word – the living word.  Celebrate with us as Minnesota’s only spoken word and poetry group releases its first collection, Outside the Lines.

 

Representing the work of nine of Minnesota’s most unique, talented and challenging Latino voices, Outside the Lines includes love poems, lost poems, political poems and everything in between.  These are the urgent words of poets as they straddle the divides of language, culture, politics, economics, education and opportunity. 

 

With Minnesota’s Latino community growing larger, and more under siege than ever, these voices begin to give voice to the voiceless.  We grew from a bond of shared identities.  In a country that allows us one box to check, we write Outside the Lines.

 

WHAT:             Outside the Lines Release Party

WHEN :            Friday, September 5th, 2008, 7:30-9:30pm

WHERE:           The Loft Literary Center, Open Book

1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415

COST:              Free

 

 

ABOUT the Poetas:

Lupe Castillo Texas born, Minnesota raised, and Xicana through and through. La Poetress has performed from Mexico City to Wisconsin to Texas to Minnesota.

 

Brandon Lacy Campos is a spoken word artist, editorialist, playwright, and community organizer.  His writing has appeared in 60 Seconds to Shine by Simon and Schuster Press, The Liberty Tree Journal, Queer Codex: Chile Love by Evelyn Street Press, and Mariposas: A Modern Queer Poetry Latino Anthology by Floricanto Press.

 

Rodrigo Sanchez Chavarria, Winner of the 2005 SASE Verve Grant, spoken word poet of Peruvian descent, writes about family, life and injustice. Released Desconcidos album in summer of 2007.

 

Dessa Darling is a Latina spoken word poet, essayist, and rapper living in Minneapolis. She won the 2005 Jerome/SASE grant for writers and was nominated for the best spoken word artist at the MN Music Awards in 2005 and 2006. Dessa is the only female member of the critically-acclaimed Doomtree hip-hop collective.

 

Lorena Duarte is a Minnesotana-Salvadoreña, poet, writer and teacher; recipient of a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and finalist in the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry. In 2007, she represented Minnesota at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Vancouver and the National Poetry Slam in Austin.

 

Magdalena Kaluza, a young phenom, Magdalena was mentored through The Loft’s Equilibrium Spoken Word Series by Tatiana Ormaza and Juliana Pegues.

 

Larry Lucio , Jr. is a Cofounder of The Twin Cities Celebration of Hip-Hop; a poet and producer, he was named LCN's 2006 Artist of the Year.  He blends hip hop styled lyricism with performance poetry.  Larry is a proud graduate of McNally Smith College of Music.

 

Tatiana Ormaza has received awards and grants from The Loft Literary Center, The Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the University of Minnesota Office for University Women.

 

Teresa Ortiz is the author of Never Again A World Without Us, Voices of Maya Women in Chiapas, Mexico and is a mentor for the Espejos project at Intermedia Arts.

 

 

ABOUT Palabristas:

Palabristas formed to solidify our connection as Latino writers.  We are a collaboration of poets of Latino descent; we write about what we see, what we experience, our culture, our language, our people. We write in English, Spanglish, Spanish; we educate and we inspire.  Between us we have won awards, grants, slams. We’ve performed for crowded auditoriums and small coffee houses, for toddlers and for their grandparents.  We conduct workshops and aim to nurture literary talent within the Latino community.  What brings us together is a common thread of defiance, a sense of social justice; it is the poetry of definition and identity, rooted in politics and a reality not defined but defied by its creators.

 

 

This event is co-sponsored by the Loft’s Equilibrium: Spoken Word series.

We gratefully acknowledge their support.

 

 

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