March Press Updates: New Chapbook, Upcoming Events, & AWP Plans!
Order Bilingual Bitch by Angelica Julia Davila now-- or pick it up from us in LA!
Our latest poetry chapbook Bilingual Bitch by Angelica Julia Dàvila is officially out now!
"Reminiscent of the poetry of Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and the sounds of Snow Tha Product, Bilingual Bitch puts serrano peppers on the cuts left by 'E.E.U.U.S.A.' Against the foreign museum of assimilation, Angelica Julia Davila's pocha poems invade English and reclaim the daily crossings of memory, of family, of history that make home."—Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, author of lo terciario/ the tertiary and AlgarabíaOur next hybrid title Sea Changes by Hayun Cho is also available for pre-order!
Sea Changes is a hybrid collection that weaves theories of survival and transformation in the face of negotiating rage, grief, pleasure, kinship, and the Korean diaspora. This collection will be out May 31st!
Abode at AWP!
Abode will be at AWP in LA this week! You can pick up all of our chapbooks and even meet some of our authors all week at T848.
On Wednesday March 26, kick off the conference at our offsite reading with Infrarrealista Review and Audrey Hollis, Lit and Leather: Celebrating Queer Defiance, featuring Abode authors such as MICHAEL CHANG, féi hernandez, and Angelica Julia Dàvila.
On Thursday March 27th, Angelica will be signing Bilingual Bitch from 11am to 12pm, Farrah Fang will be signing Quererme en La Luz from 2pm to 3pm.
If we miss you in LA, we also have a few local events coming up!
Austin Independent Book Fair - April 5th, 12-4pm
Check out our table and say hello to our staff at the second Austin Indie Book Fair, at Radio/East, 3504 Montopolis Dr, Austin, TX!
Community + Resistance Celebrating the Latino Poetry Reader Anthology - April 19th, 6-8pm
Join Abode Press at the Price Center in San Marcos, TX to celebrate the release of the Latino Poetry Reader! This reading will specifically focus on themes of Community and Resistance from the anthology and will feature anthology contributor Carmen Tafolla and special literary guests including Anel I. Flores, Cloud Cardona, Chibbi Orduna, aureleo sans, Stephen Rendon, Bianca Alyssa Perez, Gaby Benitez, and more!
This event is free to attend! Masks are strongly encouraged and will be provided. We will also have air purifiers courtesy of Clean the Air ATX to help ventilate airflow.
Virtual Workshop - Docupoetics: Distilling Truths in Oral Histories - April 28th, 6:30pm-8pm CT
The next workshop in our virtual series is “Docupoetics: Distilling Truths in Oral Histories” led by Dena Igusti. Tickets for this workshop are $25 with options available for writers in need.
With commonly known forms of western documentary and its history of exploitation, there are potential risk factors that can affect the way a community and/or self tells a story, such as including identifying information that endangers other community members, exposure of immigration status, unintentionally increasing surveillance of a community, and more. Drawing examples from Philip Metres, Tarfia Faizullah, and Dena Igusti's personal anecdotes of navigating state surveillance in post 9/11 New York City, we will explore docu-poetics, and how being able to place archives and oral history in poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks.
We can’t wait to celebrate and create radical literature with you virtually or in person soon!