It's November, which means time to cast your ballot and then reignite your hope in humanity with all of us at Voz sin Tinta. This month we are proud to feature:
JENNIFER BARONE, author of three books of poetry, her most recent titled "Saporoso - poems of Italian food & love." She can be found collaborating with fine artists and musicians, most notably as the host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz series. She has been a featured poet at The SF Public Library, The Red Poppy Art House, SF MoMa, DeYo...
It's November, which means time to cast your ballot and then reignite your hope in humanity with all of us at Voz sin Tinta. This month we are proud to feature:
JENNIFER BARONE, author of three books of poetry, her most recent titled "Saporoso - poems of Italian food & love." She can be found collaborating with fine artists and musicians, most notably as the host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz series. She has been a featured poet at The SF Public Library, The Red Poppy Art House, SF MoMa, DeYoung, The Beat Museum, and most poetry venues in San Francisco. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Bay Area Generations and Quiet Lightening. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more.
HAROLD TEREZON, an educator and poet from Pacoima, CA. He received the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Literary Award in 2013. Harold has taught the Poetry for the People class at City College of San Francisco and his work has appeared in POECOLOGY, Puerto del Sol, PALABRA, Rushing Waters Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community, The Acentos Review, among other publications. As a WritersCorps Teaching Artist he helped San Francisco youth find their voice through poetry and writing. Harold is the author of the award-winning Hunting Izotes, a collection of poems inspired by his family's immigrant experience.
NANCY AU, whose stories have appeared in Foglifter, Liminal Stories, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Necessary Fiction, Fiction Southeast, Word Riot, Identity Theory, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Spring Creek Project collaborative residency (Oregon State University), which is dedicated to artists and writers whose work is inspired by nature and science. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Anthropology, and is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University where she taught creative writing. She teaches at California State University Stanislaus. And is the co-founder and instructor at The Escapery, a writing unschool. https://escapery.org
Event is FREE and open to the public. Instructors are encouraged to share the event with their students as serious knowledge sharing happens here.
A few words from co-curator, Rene Vaz:
"Voz sin Tinta is a safe space, for those who have been silenced, marginalized, denied a voice.
There is no room for misogyny and assault- both in words and in the physical realm."
Can't wait to see you all there!