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2nd Annual Poetry Reading
An evening of poetry readings and performance with some of San Diego's most exciting and accomplished poets. Featuring Jihmye Collins, Michael Klam, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Jennifer Geran, Jim Moreno, Sylvia Telafaro, Bennie Herron, Marsella Alvarez, Laurie Macrae, and Roger Aplon with percussionist/sound artist Marcos Fernandes.
Jennifer Geran is a librarian, performance artist and poet whose work has appeared in Cityworks, Joe's Journal, Driftwood Highway, and Poetry Motel. She has performed at The Sweet Tooth Theater as part of "Third Eye Screams" and the KPBS Radio Slam. She has served as a librarian for the City of San Diego since 1998. Jim Moreno is a member of San Diego's Langston Hughes Poetry Circle and a past board member of the African American Writers & Artists. He teaches poetry workshops for gang youth in lockups, children in afterschool programs, and adults who are beginning or practiced poets. Moreno has been published in City Works, The Langston Hughes Poetry Anthology, The Magee Park Poets Anthology, the poetry conspiracy, Tidepools, and others. He performs with The Three Deuces, a jazz trumpet, dance, and spoken word ensemble with Mitch Manker and Michael Tompkins. He is the director of the Encanto Boys and Girls Club Children's Poetry Choir. He is the author of Dancing in Dissent: Poetry for Activism. www.jimpoet.com Sylvia Telefaro is President of the African American Writers and Artists; author of essay "Using the Arts to Heal", and "Innovations, Illusions, Devices, & Desires"; poetic expressions on family relationships, love, social injustice, and politics. Sylvia is a writer, poet, activist, and storyteller.
Marsella Alvarez, student and poet. Laurie Macrae received her BA in history from University of New Mexico and her MLS from the University of Arizona. She started a poetry reading series which drew poets to NM from all over the region. She has served as Vice President of the Taos Poetry Circus and World Poetry Bout, which brought great San Diego poets like Quincy Troupe and Jerome Rothenberg to Taos. Her poetry has been published in several magazines and the Santa Fe Poetry Broadside anthology, Just Outside the Frame.
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Jihmye Collins is a poet and visual artist. He is a founding member of African-American Writers and Artists, Inc. of San Diego and on the board of San Diego Writers, Ink. 
Michael Klam is a poet/teacher whose work ranges from slam to translations. He is the moderator of Poetry and Art for the San Diego Art Institute, and Poet Programs Coordinator for the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park. He was a member of the first San Diego Slam Team at the 2000 West Coast Regionals, and represented San Diego with the 2002 Slam Team. He has published two collections in English and Portuguese, Ervas e asfalto and Mouthfuls of Red Confetti, with Portuguese poet, Miguel Barbosa and has authored several books, including Sheep Go Mad and Cue in the Goats. His most recent publication is Emma and the Buddha Frog. 
Shadab Zeest Hashmi is the editor of the annual Magee Park Poets Anthology. She graduated from Reed College in 1995 where she completed "Passage Work", a creative thesis comprising poems that explore the impact of British colonialism on the culture of her native Pakistan. Her poems have appeared in New Millennium Writings, Hubbub, Poetry Conspiracy, The Bitter Oleander,
Bennie Herron's literary and musical activism began with Hip Hop and grew into poetry. Bennie is currently one of seven passionate souls that comprise the poetry collective, Taco Shop Poets. His CD is "Churches and Liquor Stores." 
Roger Aplon is an internationally acclaimed writer who has published six books of poetry and prose, including Barcelona Diary and, most recently, The Man With His Back to the Room and Intimacies. He has also published three chapbooks, and a new chapbook, Homage to a Widow, will be released by Carnaevon Press this month. A cofounder and editor of Choice Magazine with Aaron Siskind and John Logan, Roger’s work has also appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. He served as editor for From These Walls, an anthology published by The Writing Center and has led private writing workshops and groups and taught both prose and poetry at University of Hawaii, Roosevelt University, The Writing Center, and SDW, Ink.
Marcos Fernandes: born in Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes has long been active in San Diego as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada and the US as a solo improviser, phonographer and as percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles. Fernandes runs the artist-based independent label Accretions,home to some of today's more innovative experimentalists. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective, dedicated to creative music in Southern California. Fernandes' recordings have appeared on Accretions, Bake/Staalplaat, Circumvention, Pan Handler, Pax, Pfmentum, Phonography.org, Public Eyesore, Ribosome and Solitary B. 
