Poetry Multiplied

Three Amazing women writers are featured tonight with musical accompaniment.

Leticia Hernandez-Linares merges songs based on the musical traditions of Central America with performance art antics to create poetry that crosses genre and geopolitical borders.In 2002 Calaca Press published her first poetry chapbook, Razor Edges of My Tounge.

Tammy Gomez is a Chicana poet, performance artist, producer, and activist. Her orignal scripts include titles such as “No Humans Involved” (activist burlesque), and “IndiGenes” (pirating of nature)

Ruth Forman is the award winning author of We Are The Young Magicians (Beacon Press, 1993), which won the prestigious Barnard New Women Poets Prize and a listing by the American Library Association. She has read for the United Nations, and PBS’s The United States of Poetry. Hip-hop, funk, rock and sprinklings of jazz and soul are found in the blend of electronic and live instrumentation that is Contriband. This series is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.