The Taco Shop Poets and Poesia Para la Gente June 14, 2012 by J. Huskey Avenue 50 Studio’s “Poesia Para Le Gente” was presented through “The Taco Shop Poets” at Taqueria My Taco on 6300 York Boulevard on May 26th, 2012. “Poesia Para la Gente” is a program under the Avenue 50 Studio’s monthly La …
Resurrected Histories is a project funded by California Council for the Humanities, documenting Highland Park’s Chicano arts organizations during the 70’s. Aldama House /©2011 Atelier Visit. Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park From the late 1960s to the early 1980s Highland Park in Northeast Los Angeles was home to the …
I have been working on a cool oral history project, “Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park” from a California Council for the Humanities grant. Kathy Gallegos from Avenue 50 Studio included me in the grant and we all have been working very hard to move it along. We partnered with …
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CITY OF DAY For Alfred Arteaga Day and the presence of day Unlike its positive White and the presence of content Like its nemesis and incomplete waste Released to stitch together The feet In the light of midnight Much later Morning Outside the city of encounters and The malice of encounters In the …
I dreamed I killed a seal last night I dreamed I killed a seal last night. I sat in my umiak my muluks in two inches of water and my hands high above my head. Harpoon in my hands I asked him politely if we may eat him. I wrapped my parka close against me …
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Consecrated Offering (for Joseph Beckles) steel ripens into bird of paradise April smelted from gifts in the periodic table & sweat soaking a master drummer’s forearms insinuating tambourine stitches single dancers into a circle hissing with the alchemy of unlocking shackles shivering in the friction of transformation iron into sequin slavery into jewelry forged from …
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