Readings, Rated
Palabra Pura
Date: Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: NOT CALIFORNIA CLIPPER THIS MONTH: Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis, (19th and Loomis). Free admission.
Participants: Tim Hernandez, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez
We’ve featured Palabra Pura before; it’s a bilingual reading series presented by the Guild Complex (and Letras Latinas of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, along with the Rafael Cintron Ortiz Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago). Tim Hernandez will be reading from his book Skin Tax, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and called a “powerful print debut of a poet with a mature and complex talent immersed in the themes of a young male wrestling with his sensitivity and his desires for love and affection, and the societal pressures surrounding male sexuality, violence, and machismo.” Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez (a performer in “Machos,” an interview-based play about contemporary masculinities) will read her poetry.