POETRY Springtime PARTY

Join us for Poetry magazine’s seasonal party! Celebrate the March, April, and May 2016 issues of Poetry with contributors, editors, and the poetry curious. Festivities include readings, performances, music, and libations. Readings by Brenda Cárdenas, Franny Choi, and Mariame Kaba and music by Ida y Vuelta. Subscription specials and individual issues available. 

Brenda Cárdenas served as the Milwaukee Poet Laureate from 2010-2012. She is the author of Boomerang (2009) and the chapbooks Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors with Roberto Harrison (2011) and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (2005). She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Franny Choi is a queer, Korean-American pottymouth. A Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellow, she is a recipient of Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize, a finalist for the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and a member of the Dark Noise Collective. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (2014).

Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, and supporting youth leadership development.

Ida y Vuelta’s presentations come from a long tradition of Mexican folk music called Son Jarocho. The genre is a fusion of African, Spanish and Indigenous music and poetry. Ida y Vuelta’s instrumentation is native to the Veracruz region. Ida y Vuelta plays traditional “sones," some of which date back over 300 years, as well as their own arrangements and original tunes. They respectfully perform this music and aspire to make known its rich historical and musical value, specifically here in the U.S.

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