LA STORIES POETRY w/ CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA

Join us for a special Friday night poetry show hosted by poet and writer Carribean Fragoza. What defines a sense of Home for you? Is it a place, is it a person, is it a feeling? LA has a complex, multilayered history that lives and evolves as a beautiful spectrum of culture and the arts, and with the help of carefully selected poets by Carribean Fragoza, we’ll explore the meaning of home from different perspectives. Whether one has indigenous roots to the land or is the descendant of immigrants, or finally discovered the feeling of home in LA, we’ll explore the idea and discover how deep ones roots can grow.

Growing up in the peripheries of the Greater LA region and outside of Chicano communities of East LA that have largely come to define Chicano identity, including in culture and literature, has shaped my literary approach. Rather than sticking to usual tropes of Chicanx and Latinx writing, I break onto new thematic territory with unique character voices and perspectives. As a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), I push the boundaries of Chicanx literature using experimental approaches and devices and freely borrow from international queer and feminist literary movements. I have published fiction and poetry in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Huizache, Entropy, Palabra Literary Magazine and Emohippus.

My arts/culture reviews and essays have been published in online national and international magazines such as the Aperture, Los Angeles Review of Books, L.A. Weekly, KCET, Culture Strike, and Tropics of Meta.

I am also the founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP), a multi-disciplinary arts collective.

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This performance is made possible in part by grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture

Event Venue

Grand Performances, 350 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United States