Our Spirit, Our Reality – A panel discussion of our new anthology by Comadres: Geneva Escobedo, Mari Herreras, Kaitlin Meadows, Nina Madrid, Andrea Hernandez Holm, Rosi Andrade, co-editor of Sowing the Seeds: una cosecha de recuerdos, and Elena Díaz Bjorkquist, author of Suffer Smoke,Water from the Moon and co-editor of Sowing the Seeds: una cosecha de recuerdos.
Fiction Workshop – Presenter: Stella Pope Duarte, author of Fragile Night, Let Their Spirits Dance, and If I Die in Juarez.
“Manifesting the Muse” Poetry Workshop – Presenter: Odilia Galván Rodríguez, author of Migratory Birds: New and Noted Poems.
Keynote Speaker – Francisco Alarcón, author of numerous books of poetry, including Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation, Sonnets to Madness and other Misfortunes, Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems. He is a nominee for Poet Laureate of California.
Entertainment – Nancy Lorenza Green, poet, performance & recording artist.
Floricanto – Participants will have an opportunity to share one of their essays/poems at an open mic even
