Are you wondering....Where is my Tribe?How do I know I have found "it"? Where do I fit in? How do I really know? I have found "my" tribe? Why do I even want to look? Is it important to have a tribe?!Where is your tribe? What is the difference b
Topic: Empowering the Awakened Self! Empowering the Awakened Self~ Julia will be Talking Story with Julie Williams, Holistic Therapist and Trainer~ Her work and teachings: Release ancestral entanglements with Family Constellation Work, Transfor
Bushra’s poetry has been collected in the chapbook Marianna’s Beauty Salon (Vagabond Press, 2001). Her writing been featured on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, KPFA and in The New York Times, India Currents andNY Newsday. Her work has also appeared in Color
Jason Bayani is a graduate of Saint Mary’s MFA program in Creative Writing. He is a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene. His work has been published in Fourteen Hills, Muzzle Magazine, Mascara Review, the National Po
Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts and the American Antiquarian Society. He’s published The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map
Jessica Hagedorn was born in Manila and now lives in New York. A novelist, poet, and playwright, her published works include Toxicology, Dream Jungle, The Gangster Of Love, Danger and Beauty, and Dogeaters, which was a finalist for the National
Matthew Olzmann is a graduate of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kresge Arts Foundation. C
Conney Williams is a Los Angeles based poet, actor and performance artist originally from Shreveport, Louisiana where he worked as a radio personality. He has published two poetry collections “Leaves of Spilled Spirit from an Untamed Poet (20
DERRICK c. BROWN is one of America’s most beloved and well travelled performing page poets. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent press
Conney Williams is a Los Angeles based poet, actor and performance artist originally from Shreveport, Louisiana where he worked a radio personality. He has published two poetry collections “Leaves of Spilled Spirit from an Untamed Poet (2002/
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the full-length book SPRUNG (San Francisco Bay Press, 2012), the letterpress book UNCLOSE THE DOOR (Gold Quoin Press, 2012), and the recent chapbooks SHE WHO LOVES H
Luivette Resto was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. Her first poetry book Unfinished Portrait was published by Tia Chucha Press in 2008 and was also named a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is a
Julia will share with you the healing that can take place through "Talking Story" with yourself and others. Julia will be sharing folklore stories. Julia will be interviewing Jennie E. Lake. Jennie Elizabeth Lake, an awakened individual, has
Cati Porter is a poet, editor, mother, and community arts facilitator. She is the author of Seven Floors Up as well as several chapbooks, including, The Way Things Move The Dark, published in 2013 by Dancing Girl Press. Her work has been anthol
Nicole Terez Dutton's work has appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, among other publications. Nicole earned an MFA from Brown University and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Cave Canem and
Khadija Anderson returned in 2008 to her native Los Angeles after 18 years exile in Seattle. Khadija's poetry has been published in Pale House (forthcoming), The Ark Magazine, Unfettered Verse, CommonLine Project, Qarrtsiluni, Gutter Eloquence,
Since 1970 he has published 2 novels,20 volumes of poetry and more than 1400 poems in hundreds of magazines around the world. His poetry has been taught at both the high school and university level as well as having been translated into several
Paul Suntup's poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Rattle, Spillway, Artlife, Cider Press Review, ISM and the anthology 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. His long-awaited collection of poetry, Sunset at the Temple o
Xánath Caraza is a traveler, educator, poet and short story writer. She was named number one of the 2013 Top Ten “New” Latino Authors to Watch (and Read) by LatinoStories.com. Originally from Xalapa,Veracruz, Mexico, she has lived in Vermont an
Eloise Klein Healy is Los Angeles' first Poet Laureate. For the next two years, Los Angeles looks to her to celebrate important events and to make poetry a public matter. She has earned this achievement many ways. She is a professor, a creat
Laura Walker’s most recent book, Follow–Haswed (Apogee Press, 2012), is created from fragments of individual entries in the sixth volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, “Follow-Haswed”. She is also the author ofbird book (Shearsman Books, 20
Ciara Shuttleworth’s poems have appeared and/or are forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, The New Yorker, Weber: the Contemporary West, and The Norton Introduction to Literature, 11/e. She is a native of San Francisco but grew up in Nebraska, Neva