Join us for an experiential performance of poetry with music, movement, and communion.

Saturday, September 24, 7:30 pm, Brasil Brasil Cultural Center

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Amy Shimshon-Santo (poems & collage); Robin Sukhadia (tabla); Amen Santo (surdo, atabaque, berimbau, makelé); Valecia Phillips (voice); Alixx Lucas (movement); Jenise Miller (story); Bruria (translation); Yonatan Perry (havdalah guidance); Q & A with Trifari White. Book gifting + receiving : )

About the Book

Catastrophic Molting asks readers to imagine: “what if we were a part of a whole / that loved us without ceasing?” The collection suggests that “stepping off might actually be, stepping in / turning away might actually be, turning toward." Refusing to normalize violence, the poet gathers war inside her own body to detonate it, then blows “tsunami-wind / to rattle clear the desks.” With the verve of Oya, the goddess of ancestral and radical change, the book claims ground for empathy and inter-being.

About the Author

Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer and educator who believes that creativity is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation. She is the author of Even the Milky Way is Undocumented (Unsolicited Press, 2020), and the limited edition chapbook Endless Bowls of Sky (Placeholder Press, 2020), and numerous peer-reviewed essays (GeoHumanities; Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice; Imagining America). She has edited two books amplifying community voices: Et Al (IOPN, 2022), and Arts = Education (UC Press, 2010).

About the Press

Flowersong Press nurtures essential verse from, about, and through the borderlands. The voices of those from Latin America, the U.S.A. and all over the world. We are literary, lyrical, and boundless, and we welcome allies that understand and join in the voice of people of color and our struggle, truth, and hope.