WOMEN OF COLOR READING SERIES

March - May 2006

Demetria Martinez
March 6, 2006
7 p.m. Antigone Books
Demetria Martinez is an author, activist, lecturer and columnist. Her collected essays, Confessions of a Berlitz Tape Chicana: Collected Columns (Univ. of Oklahoma Press) was published in September 2005. Her books include the widely translated novel, Mother Tongue (Ballantine), winner of a Western States Book Award for Fiction, and two books of poetry, Breathing Between the Lines and The Devil’s Workshop (Univ. of Arizona Press). She writes a column for the National Catholic Reporter, an independent progressive newsweekly.

Demetria read from her latest book, Confessions of a Berlitz Tape Chicana

 

Margo Tamez
April 1, 2006

4 p.m. Kore Press Backyard (21 E. 15th St.)

In 1997 Margo Tamez completed an M.F.A. in Poetry in the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University, working closely with Norman Dubie, Jeannine Savard, Beckian Fritz-Goldberg, Alberto Rios. She is widely known for her work among traditional communities. Her work explores social themes that go against the myths and romantic notions of indigenous peoples. Her poetry and prose examines the erosion of social ties among Native families, personal vs. group sovereignty, gender sovereignty in the contexts of racism, classism and gender oppression within Native communities.

Margo read from her forthcoming manuscript, Daugher of Lightning, along with border activist Teresa Leal.

 

Niki Herd

May 1, 2006

6:30 p.m. Kore Press Backyard (21 E. 15th St)

Niki Herd has published in various forums such as Crimson Crane, XCP: Streetnotes, Black Issues Book Review, and has work forthcoming in PMS: poemmemoirstory. She is a graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles and is a member of the Cave Canem Workshop for African-American Poets.