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L.A. Book Launch: Incantation by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
L.A. Book Launch: Incantation by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Celebrate the L.A. book launch of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo.Celebrate Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, and featuring readings by Josh Evans, féi hernandez, Jenise Miller, and Jasmine Williams. Art by Rafael Cardenas.Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites is a Chicana's witness to the American ethos in a time marked by controversy, division, and transformation. Bermejo delves into the heart of the matter, contemplating the significance of U.S. monuments as both symbols of history and battlegrounds for ideological strife, and imparts a compassionate ear to the marginalized, memorializing the lives of Black and brown individuals whose lives were cut short by state-sanctioned violence.About the authorsXochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications) and Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites (Mouthfeel Press). A former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, she’s received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Yefe Nof, and National Parks Arts Foundation in partnership with Gettysburg National Military Park and Poetry Foundation. Her poem “Battlegrounds” was featured at Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, On Being’s Poetry Unbound, and Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W.W. Read More ...