Poetry/Spoken Word

10/1: Community Poetry Fundraiser for Occupy Wall Street at ABQ Center for Peace and Justice

October 1, 2011 by Democracy for N...

From organizers Richard Vargas, Merimee Moffitt, Zachary Kluckman and Yasmeen Najmi: 

Join us for an evening of solidarity with our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters, who are taking a stand for all of us. A community poetry open mic fundraiser for Occupy Wall Street will be held at the Albuquerque Center for Peace & Justice, 202 Harvard SE, on Saturday, October 1, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Donate whatever you can to read; one-poem, three-minute maximum, please. Also asking for donations at the door, but no one will be turned away. The movement needs supplies, food, etc. No featured poets -- just people coming together to express solidarity with our brothers and sisters in NYC and across the country.

9/28: Poet Margaret Randall to Read From 'To Change the World: My Years in Cuba' at UNM

September 28, 2011 by Democracy for N...

From Event on Facebook:
The Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII), Zimmerman Library, Women's Resource Center, Peace Studies and the Queer Straight Alliance of the University of New Mexico proudly present an evening with Margaret Randall, an internationally revered poet, author, activist and a local Albuquerque resident. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 28, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Willard Reading Room at UNM's Zimmerman Library.

Randall will read from TO CHANGE THE WORLD: MY YEARS IN CUBA (Rutgers University Press, 2009), which is part memoir, and part political analysis of eleven years in Cuba (1969-1980).