*from Emma Trelles’s “How to Write a Poem: Theory #62″

What are you doing Wednesday? You are going to Pilsen! Whether by Pink Line or the #60, by bike or by foot. Palabra Pura presents Chicago’s own Jacob Saenz and Miami’s Emma Trelles at Décima Musa, 1901 South Loomis. A brief open mic begins at 7:30, before the readers take it away.

To get a taste for these two, watch Saenz, a graduate of Columbia College, read his poem “Sweeping the States” during a Poetry magazine panel at this year’s AWP conference. Then, watch a video adaptation of Trelles’s poem “How to Write a Poem: Theory #62,” featuring her reading, and an eclectic mix of imagery, including a child adorably jumping down the street.

If all this weren’t enough, I hear the guacamole’s pretty damn good at Décima Musa. Fun fact: it’s named after Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a Mexican Carmelite nun (pictured above—in case you were thinking it was Jacob or Emma) who wrote poetry, prose, and theater in the late 17th century, and earned the epithet “La Décima Musa,” the Tenth Muse (refresh yourself on the other nine—always a good move to be able to invoke Terpsichore, the muse of dance). She defended her right as a woman to participate in the male domain of intellectual activities against many, including a bishop, and is widely considered to be the first feminist on the North American Continent! Amen, sista.