Maya Chinchilla's Blog, page 4
April 14, 2014
Testing out a new mailing list!
Testing out a new mailing list! Click the image or link above to sign up for messages and updates about my events and happenings.Filed under: eat drink cultura, Readings
Donde Esta Mi Gente Poetry Festival
This festival of Latino Poetry and Spoken word is in full swing with the first two events standing room only! Such an amazing time this past Saturday. Final event is this Saturday April 19, 2014 at Galeria de la Raza 7:30. Hope to see you there! For more information go to www.dondeestamigente.com and check […]
March 31, 2014
SF Jazz Poetry Festival- Latino/a night
Following last year’s thought-provoking inauguration of the Poetry Festival, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Ishmael Reed curates the second happening, made powerful by the collective improvisation between words and music. Prominent Bay Area poets of Latino-American heritage have been invited to showcase their work Friday, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía. Poets include Leticia Hernández-Linares, […]
March 7, 2014
International Women’s Day at MCCLA
Happy International Women’s day to Women of ALL genders.Filed under: eat drink cultura, Performance, Readings
December 17, 2013
TONIGHT: Lunada featuring me and Lorenzo from Kórima Press
“LUNADA celebrates the end of a stellar Fall season, with guest curator SARAH GUERRA and featured artists of KORIMA PRESS. Published poets and spoken word vets MAYA CHINCHILLA and LORENZO HERRERA Y LOZANO will dish out a literary banquet to keep us nourished until our Spring season begins again in February. The OPEN MIC SIGN-UP […]
November 18, 2013
Chapina Poetry in Conversation
http://www.acentosreview.com/November... Check out these poems by Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez. I recently met her at a talk by a mentor of mine visiting Berkeley. She mentioned that she wrote a poem inspired by my poetry but I had no idea. Being mentioned in someone else’s poem is intense because I think my poems only exist in my little […]
