Come celebrate the launch of Hari Alluri's chapbook with a trio of powerful West Coast poets!
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is a migrant poet of Filipinx & South Asian descent on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples and Kwantlen, Katzie, and Kwikwitlem lands of Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. Siya is author of The Flayed City (Kaya Press) and chapbooks The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press) and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page Press). A recipient of grants, fellowships, awards, and residencies, his work appears widely in print and online, most recently—via Split This Rock—in Best of the Net 2022 and this winter as part of the Burnaby Art Gallery’s Dream Marrow exhibit.
Karla Cordero is a descendant of the Chichimeca peoples of northern Mexico, a Chicana poet, artivist, educator and author of the poetry collection, How To Pull Apart The Earth (Not A Cult.) a 2019 San Diego Book Award winner and awarding-winning finalist for the International Latino Book Award and the International Book Award. In addition, as a performing artist, Karla is the 2013 Grand Slam Champion, aiding the Elevated San Diego Slam Team to rank 4th in the nation at the National Poetry Slam Competition. She has performed for television networks such as NBC 7 San Diego Art Pulse, TBN Juice Live and the Old Globe Theatre. Her work has appeared in NPR, Academy of American Poets, O-Oprah Magazine, PANK, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4 LatiNext Anthology, among other publications. Karla is a Macondo, VONA, CantoMundo, Pink Door Writing Retreat, Community of Writers Fellow. She is a professor in composition and creative writing at MiraCosta College and San Diego City College. You can follow her work at www.karlacordero.com or IG: @karlaflaka13
Arthur Kayzakian is the winner of the inaugural 2021 Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series award for his collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was also selected as a finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is also the winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition for his chapbook, My Burning City. He has been a finalist for the Locked Horn Press Chapbook Prize, Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, the C.D. Wright Prize, the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and the Black River Chapbook Competition. He is a contributing editor at Poetry International and a recipient of the Minas Savvas Fellowship. He serves as the Poetry Chair for the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA). His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from several publications including Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Portland Review, Chicago Review, Nat. Brut, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness Magazine, and Prairie Schooner.
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