GHOST TOWN POETRY OPEN MIC
Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Partington
June 13, 2013
7pm
Cover to Cover Books
6300 NE St. James Rd.,
Suite 104B
(St. James & Minnehaha)
Vancouver, WA
christopherjluna@gmail.com
LGBTQ-friendly, all ages,
and uncensored since 2004
With our featured reader, Raul Sanchez:
Raúl Sánchez conducts workshops on The Day of the Dead. He was a featured in the 2011 Burning Word Poetry Festival. An avid collector of poetry books and self-proclaimed “thrift store junkie,” Sanchez volunteers as a DJ for KBCS 91.3 FM on the Saturday music shows Sabor! and Al Lado Latino. His most recent work is the translation of John Burgess’ Punk Poems in his book Graffito and his ardent inaugural collection All Our Brown-Skinned Angels, published by MoonPath Press in Kingston, WA. Filled with poems of cultural identity, familial and personal, civil protest, personal celebration, and passion, his book has been nominated for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry for 2013.
Breath
By Raul Sanchez
At day’s end we try to remain bright
speak colorfully, for words
are like the clothes we wear
we wear them on our tongues
Raul Sanchez at Teotihuacan 2012
PRINTED MATTER VANCOUVER 