About this Event
Come enjoy an afternoon with Palabras Literary Salon, a BIPOC-centered literary community event co-hosted with Latinx with Plants, in the open air greenhouse in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
We are honored to feature the California State Poet Laureate Lee Herrick (Scar and Flower)in conversation with host and West Hollywood Poet Laureate Jen Cheng (Braided Spaces). The reading and conversation will be from 2pm-3pm and reception is 3-3:30pm. This special edition of the salon invites you to join in our community building efforts - please send your questions ahead of time and at the salon.
This salon's theme is "perserverance," celebrating May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month.
- This event is volunteer-run and grassroots-driven.
- Please kindly help us with your early RSVP here to attend and join in the facilitated discussion. Previous events have sold out so please join the waitlist and plan to attend if the RSVPs are full - people do cancel! We are asking for RSVPs for priority entry due to limited capacity in the back greenhouse patio.
- Your donations help us get a headcount and pay for chair rentals and light reception for this outdoor event. If you would like to bring cash donation to our event or send other payment, we gladly appreciate your support. *If you're challenged with limited funds and want to attend for free, please join us in community.
- Please arrive by 1:30pm to shop with the store and enjoy meeting new friends as we would like to start at 2pm and finish by 3:30pm to have time for community conversation and reception.
- Please plan for time to find your street parking in the neighborhood. There is a city lot on the side street of Chicago.
- Please message us if you would like to reserve seating for disabilities or other needs. There is a small ramp to get to the patio. A bathroom is available but is not wheelchair accessible.
We are glad to have you celebrate with us on Sunday, May 5th at 2pm.
>>>You can donate as little as $1 here to get a tix. This system was created to limit the number of no-shows and so we can get an accurate number for our chair rentals. Everyone is welcome. Drop-ins are welcome.
More about Palabras Literary Salon
With a mission to create intercultural community building, Palabras is a salon inspired by our elders of civil rights consciousness raising and Maya Angelou's salons in the Harlem Renaissance. Our facilitator, Jen Cheng, brings home-cooking and light snacks to the event as we build bridges by breaking bread together. We sit in a non-heirarchical circle, without a stage. This is not an open-mic. Talk-story and witnessing are ways we can build better understanding of our humanity. More about Palabras on Jen's website: www.jencvoice.com/palabras
This series is supported in part by Poets & Writers. www.pw.org
More about our featured writer
Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award; Gardening Secrets of the Dead; and This Many Miles from Desire.
He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books 2020). His poems appear widely, in The Poetry Foundation, Academy of American Poets, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice with a foreword by Common, HERE: Poems for the Planet, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Herrick serves on the advisory board of Terrain.org and Sixteen Rivers Press. He co-founded LitHop in Fresno. He has taught in Qingdao, China, and for Kundiman.
He was born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted as an infant. He lives with his family in Fresno, California and served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. He teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA program at University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. He is the 10th California Poet Laureate, and the first Asian American to serve in the role.
More about Lee Herrick and his Poet Laureate appointment here.
Community and Healing Through Plants
Latinx with Plants is a woman of color owned business in Boyle Heights whose focus is to celebrate and uplift people of color in the plant world. While the shop began with an Instagram account that was at first dedicated to sharing fun memes, plant inspo, and plant parent goals, our community grew into something we never could have imagined. Our physical shop has been bouncing around Cesar Chavez Avenue for a couple of years, and in June of 2022, we relocated to our largest location yet. We hope that through plant parenthood, people will be able to deepen their connection with nature and the Earth, and tune into the healing that caring for plants can offer us. @latinxwithplants
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Graphic: @JenCvoice
Group photo below is from the March 2024 Palabras salon. Lee's photo is from his website, with photo credit by Curtis Messer. Jen's photo is by Kayte Deioma. Andi's photo is from the Latinx with Plants website.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Latinx with Plants, 2208 Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, United States
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