BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry presents jo reyes-boitel and Carmen Calatayud

BookWoman welcomes featured poets jo reyes-boitel and Carmen Calatayud reading from their newest collections. An open mic follows.
About this Event

BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry is delighted to welcome featured poets jo reyes-boitel (the matchstick litanies (Next Page Press, 2023)) and Carmen Calatayud (This Tangled Body (FlowerSong Press, 2024) Thursday, December 12 from 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CST in-store (5501 N. Lamar #A-105) for this fully-hybrid reading, simultaneously on Zoom . Cindy Huyser hosts and a "round robin" open mic follows.

jo reyes-boitel is a queer, mixed Latinx poet, playwright, and scholar, having just completed their MFA at the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley where she served as a Presidential Research Fellow and taught undergraduate creative writing courses. jo’s work centers on decoloniality and the role of longing and mourning in reclaiming cultural inheritance and identity. Their publications include Michael + Josephine (FlowerSong Press, 2019), the chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock, 2021), and her newest work, the matchstick litanies (Next Page Press, 2023). jo has also written and produced “she wears bells”, a hybrid opera, which was a finalist in Guerilla Opera’s 2022 virtual festival. jo is a fellow of Macondo and VoNA/Voices of Our Nations.

Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her second book This Tangled Body was published by FlowerSong Press, in conjunction with Letras Latinas, in 2024. Her first book In the Company of Spirits was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. Calatayud’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a Best of La Bloga winner and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

If you’re joining us in-store, please bring your mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you’re joining via Zoom, be sure to register via Eventbrite and to log into Zoom with your email and password before accessing the meeting.

Contact BookWoman to order your copies of the matchstick litanies, This Tangled Body, and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com .