Easter Sunday in El Sereno
The Echospace Collective coalesces
On cantilevered community calles
along the divided sides
of Huntington Drive
Cool, fervent primavera peace
Descends in El Sereno
Tranquil in the arms
And echoes of Eastside Café
Palabra del primo soldado
Canoso con su cuaderno
Bajo su brazo y la pluma
The lines in his face,
Forged in New York
And Chicago, are laughter
And pride as well as
suffering and sorrow
Etched in a blue smoke mirror
Of agile ink sketches
Underneath his wizard pen
Madrina and sister-tia
Brings word from our other
Big homie-brother, the gracious
Giver and hold-out warrior
Who smiles with Quetzal joy
And makes flower songs
On paper and through his child
The wordslingers gather,
Among them la maestra
Who conjures cookies and poems
A studio painter who lived
Though so many others died
For the war-monster machinery
Bringing barbershop revolutions
and a Chicano moratorium
Like daybreak absolutions
When our very own Salazar
Was consecrated and slain
Our bereft camarada Chileno
Exiliado en el este de Los Angeles
From the post-Allende purge
Telling stories while healing
The rift between brothers
Soldiers for love and peace
Across three continents
As the waft of tobacco
wanes gently over
The face of pain and triumph
Emerging from under his skin
And I leave Echospace renewed
Replenished, reborn, restored
I want to be the posterboy
The troubador, a bona fide vocero
de una guerra contra la opresion
Free our voices and lift our souls
With and by and for and through
a collective of mild-mannered
superhero poets who live humbly
because words of grace and beauty
are, more than ever
necessary and true
I say again a heartfelt gracias
Y aviento un suspiro contento
Over the leaves and trees
I want to inhabit the Echospace
Let it fill my veins and fingertips
With sonnets and smiles
Like a veil made from stars
Over our lady Nuestra
Señora Reina de Los Angeles
Tonantzin in our native tongue
Earthbound on a mission
To bridge the elders and young
Teaching us to share
The tenderness we seek
Ofrendas de ternura
We have only begun to speak
Easter Sunday
April 8, 2007
El Sereno
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Who I'd like to meet: Poets, writers, thinkers, creative artists and cultural workers... volunteers, community stakeholders, neighbors and all of those with a vision and dream who are willing to work for change one step at a time, knowing that change must first begin within. It's about peace and harmony, but it is also about respect and love for each other and for the earth as a living, breathing companion, a guide and caretaker that must, in turn, be protected and cared for. It's about the family and trust in our own innate talents, skills and knowledge which never ceases to grow... about change and the mystic forces that can take us further than we've ever been. It's about love and language and the flight, about freedom and creation when the muses are unleashed and we cry for our anscestors who suffered untold oppression, obliteration and annihilation, we release them and let go of genetic sadness. Sobre todo el el poema del loco enamorado, el que vive clavado dentro de mi pecho y la memoria de unos momentos mágicos.
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I hope to see you this Saturday at my event. Saludos, Reina
Dime/Tell Me: An Evening of Lyrical Disclosures featuring poets - Liz Gonzalez, Gustavo Guerra Vazquez, Ingrid Carolina Parra storytellers and performers - Pat Alderete, Bobby Plasencia, Ruth Otero.
The event is followed up with a dance party hosted by DJs Starskee Suave & Jon Hershfield, known for their monthly residency Leisure Suite at Bar 107 www. myspace. com/theleisuresuite
Tropico de NopalGallery-Art Space 1665 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles (Echo Park), CA 90026 213.481.8112 http://www. tropicodenopal. com
The first person to confirm her/his attendance by replying to this message (by Wednesday March 19th at 6 p.m.) will be placed on the guest list. If you don’t hear from me it’s because somebody else replied first.
CALatinidad Presents Dime / Tell Me An Evening of Lyrical Disclosures Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:00 p.m. - 1 am, minimum donation $10
Tropico de Nopal Gallery & Art Space 1665 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles (Echo Park), CA 90026 213.481.8112 - http://www. tropicodenopal. com
As a celebration of spring and the full moon CALatinidad presents "Dime / Tell Me: An Evening of Lyrical Disclosures" featuring some of Southern California's amazing writers at Tropico de Nopal Gallery & Art Space.
Featuring poets Liz Gonzalez, Gustavo Guerra Vasquez, Rachel Kahn, Alicia Vogl Saenz, and storytellers Pat Alderete, Ruth Othero and Maria Elena Gaitan sharing delightful and witty disclosures at Tropico de Nopal's backyard patio.
in support of CALatinidad poets & performers (Estrella del Valle,Roberto Leni, Reina Alejandra Prado, and Abel Salas) who have been invited to present at the XIII International Poetry Festival in Havana this coming May.
Minimum donation at the door is $10. A raffle will be held throughout the evening, auctioning an original drawing by acclaimed artist José Lozano.
Tropico de Nopal will also have a closing reception in the Gallery for "Los Eternos 2.0 (The Eternals 2.0) that features Charles Glaubitz drawings, acrylic paintings on canvas, mixed media, collage and installation for the first time in Los Angeles.
Thank you for inviting me! Yesterday was so nice. I was really blessed and inspired to read, to write, and to perform. Good to meet new, good, talented, friendly people in this cold, cold season! Blessings and Respect!
what a beautiful reading and gathering of kindred spirits. thank you for doing this event at Self Help Graphics. it was fitting that we began the ceremony at the Virgin de Guadalupe statue.
Please, if you have a quesion about the instruments just let me know, I can help you; but also don't forget to check myspace profile because I have a lot of INFO there.
Thanks for adding us. Your support is much appreciated.
What do you think of these newly discovered crime scene photos (viewed at Abu-Jamal-News.com)?
I have been personally contacting every media outlet I could find and still the mainstream media has completely ignored the story. Many independent media outlets have covered it, but the only independent outlet that has actually published one of the photos is the national Black newspaper, The SF Bay View (click here).
This is just the latest episode in a long history of corporate media bias (and arguably racism) towards Mumia and other political prisoners.
