Amir Rabiyah

Bio:

Amir Rabiyah lives in Oakland, California and is an Arab/queer/trans poet and performer. He received his BA in Women's Studies from Portland State University and his MFA in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California. He has performed and read his poetry, fiction and non-fiction all over the US and has been published in Mizna, Riffrag, Tea Party Magazine and the anthology: I Saw My Ex at a Party. He was a finalist in Cutthroat Magazine's 2008 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest. This year, he was a featured writer with the Men's Story Project. The Men's Story Project is a new performance and dialogue project exploring social ideas about masculinity. Described by audiences as "groundbreaking" and "something that needs to keep on happening," the show highlighted 15 Bay Area artists, activists, and first-time presenters, ages 20-60, sharing true stories about their lives through slam poetry, monologues, music and dance. He most recently performed with Mangos With Chili in the San Francisco Queer Arts Festival. Mangos With Chili is a multi-racial, multi-gendered and multi-genre traveling cabaret of queer and trans of color performance artists working in theater, dance, spoken word, burlesque and drag. This October, he will be touring with Mangos With Chili for two weeks. Locations are to be announced shortly. He is a three time Voices of our Nations Alumni and was a Student/Teacher/Poet in 2008-2009 at UC Berkeley's Poetry for the People program which was founded by the beloved writer June Jordan. If you or your organization are interested in booking Amir, please feel free to contact him. Check out the following websites: www.mensstoryproject.org, http://www.voicesatvona.org and http://www.myspace.com/mangoswithchili.

Member Since:

May 03, 2009

Sounds Like:

Spoken word.