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Testimonios + Witness Writing as Social Action Workshop with jo reyes-boitel
Testimonios + Witness Writing as Social Action Workshop with jo reyes-boitel
Pay What You Can
Suggested $40 or pay what you can
Proceeds benefit Red Salmon Arts
Followed by a closing reading by participants and the author at 5:30pm. Community Is Welcome!
About the author
jo reyes-boitel is a poet, playwright, and scholar. jo is also a queer, mixed-Latinx parent working in community. Somehow born in Minnesota, their family calls Texas, Florida, Mexico, and Cuba home.
Recent and forthcoming publications include Huizache Magazine, OyeDrum Magazine, Scalawag Journal, The Ice Colony, Windward Review, Chachalaca Review, The Americas Review, and Your Impossible Voice.
Book publications include jo’s chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock, 2021), which addresses the struggle of working through others’ views and dominant culture’s impact on the body and the self – from domestic violence on to personal liberation. Their first book, Michael + Josephine, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press, 2019), reimagines St. Michael the Archangel as a queer woman who begins a love relationship with Josephine, a disaster relief worker. the matchstick litanies, their forthcoming book through Next Page Press, follows the author’s upbringing. Out November 1, pre-sales are happening now.
FMI: https://joreyesboitel.com/
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