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Wild Indigo Poetry Reading
October 20 @ 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Description (from host)
Wild Indigo is coming back on October 20 with a triple feature with Sonia Sanchez Carmen Calatayud and Roberto Carlos Garcia at Young American Cider.
We expect capacity to be reached quickly so if you are planning to come, don’t wait! We will be starting on time, so don’t be late!
$5 donation requested but if you can do more, wonderful! That helps us to continue to pay our featured poets!
BIOS Sonia Sanchez is the author of more than 20 books, including Homecoming (1969), We a BaddDDD People (1970), Love Poems (1973), I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1978), A Sound Investment (1980), Homegirls and Handgrenades (1984), Under a Soprano Sky (1987), Wounded in the House of a Friend (1995), Does Your House Have Lions? (1997), Like the Singing Coming off the Drums (1998), Shake Loose My Skin (1999), Morning Haiku (2010), and, most recently, Collected Poems (2021).
Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her second book This Tangled Body was published by FlowerSong Press, in conjunction with Letras Latinas, in 2024. Her first book In the Company of Spirits was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. Calatayud’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Poet Lore, Poetry, Rogue Agent and Tahoma Literary Journal, She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a Best of La Bloga winner and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. She is a DC area native living in San Antonio, Texas.
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is rigorously interrogative of himself and the world around him, conveying “nakedness of emotion, intent, and experience,” and he writes extensively about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. He is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing.
