What does it mean to bring a life lived into art? What is your truth? What are the similarities between music, writing, visual arts, and dance? Listen as poet Edith “Blackbird” and I discuss the various ways artists bring their experiences, both personal and external into their work, the diversity of voice, and Edith’s own development as a multi-media poet.

Edith was born in the capital of Mexico but raised in Sinaloa state, in a small town near the Pacific coast. She started to participate in local events since elementary school like “Civil Mondays”, writing patriotic and traditional poems to perform for government members at the time alongside some classmates. In middle school, she competed in a statewide contest, winning second place. In 2005, she won second place in the nationwide contest, representing her high school. The Sonora University awarded her an honorable mention for her participation in their regional contest with the piece “Plegarias de Una Luna Enamorada” and was published in their anthology Realidad Aleatoria. In this same year, she discovered Jaime Sabines, a Mexican poet who's work project deep themes about love, loneliness, existential anxiety, and death, impregnated by his own feelings, which show the reality of a changing and decaying society.

Now living in Austin since 2017, Edith attends open mics around the city sharing her bilingual art. She has been featured twice for the “Austin Poetry Society” monthly event in 2018. She has won three Hearsay Poetry Ekphrastic Challenges, published on hearsaypoetry.com.