Tectónico: Voices in Shifting Times
Leg One| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Kingston 11
Event DescriptionTectónico: Voices in Shifting Times presents a multicultural and cross genre reading that features poets that identify as Latino/Latina, Indigenous and African American. Their combined experience spans social and literary movements both local and national.
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Co-Curators: harold terezón & Ricardo Tavarezharold terezón is an community educator and poet from Pacoima, CA. He received the James D. Phelan Literary Award in 2013. harold also curates The Jingletown Reading Series in Fruitvale.
Ricardo Tavarez is a writer and educator from Watsonville who teaches at Contra Costa College and facilitates youth writing workshops. Ricardo curates the Pan Dulce Poets reading series in the Mission.
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Event Readers
Naomi Quiñonez
Naomi Quiñonez is the author of Hummingbird Dream, The Smoking Mirror, and The Exiled Moon. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Infinite Divisions, From Totems to Hip Hop. She received a Rockefeller Fellowship and an American Book Award.
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Norman Antonio Zelaya
Norman Antonio Zelaya is a writer born and raised in SF, CA. He has published fiction in several publications, most recently in Apogee Journal, and was a finalist for the Zoetrope: All-Story contest in 2015. He teaches Special Education in SFUSD and lives in the Mission.
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Garrett Murphy
Garrett Murphy, a political and human nature satirist, lives in Oakland, CA, and has written several chapbooks of poetry and prose.
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Tony Robles
Tony Robles was born and raised San Franciscan. Author of "Cool Don't Live Here No More--A letter to San Francisco. Works as a tenant’s rights advocate and is president of Manilatown Heritage Foundation.
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Moon Flower
Moon Flower is a two spirit, multi-disciplinary artist of Native and mixed heritage. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. She is currently working on publishing her debut poetry book “Love and the Lost Nation.”
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