Josiah Luis Alderete, Sara Borjas, Aideed Medina: October 5, 2023

The Poetry Center presents Mazza Writer in Residence for Fall 2023, Josiah Luis Alderete, together with Sara Borjas and Aideed Medina. The poets each perform mostly recent work, with Medina reading from her new book 31 Hummingbird: a suite of poems (editorial Xingao, 2023) among other poems; Borjas, American Book Award winner for Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press, 2019), reading new work from manuscript; and Alderete, author of Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos (Black Freighter Press,2021) and co-proprietor of Medicine for Nightmares bookstore and gallery,  performing a number of newer works.

The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.

Note: the first portion of Aideed Medina's reading is presented via audio only, due to a camera failure; video (thanks to the presence of BECA students at work on a project involving the poets) begins for the last portion of Medina's reading and continues throughout. Audio drops out briefly in the early part of the recording. 

 

Publisher
BECA (Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts)
Location
Medicine for Nightmares, San Francisco
Date
2022-10-05
Event Run Time
01:22:20
Contributors
Steve Dickison
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Aideed Medina (00:19:46)

Aideed Medina opens in Spanish, then shifting to English reads from her poetry — noting she writes both in Spanish and English: "I arrive as a tourist to my own story...." 

Sara Borjas (00:26:52)

Sara Borjas, after making opening remarks, reads a poem, "Sierra Vista Court," by Diana Delgado, then turns to her own poetry. Noting she'll read a couple poems about her brother, who is in the military, she remarks on how often families "are getting by" and have people working "as agents of the state in some capacity" — "in the Central Valley, they're probably corrections officers..." And, asked 'where do we start standing up?' she says, start at home. "A soldier knocks on a door and opens it...."

Josiah Luis Alderete (00:23:28)

Josiah Luis Alderete presents a set of his poems, after opening remarks. "At long last the pendejo explains himself, me being the pendejo...."

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