Authors Alan Chazaro, MK Chavez and Gris Muñoz will discuss and read from their respective poetry books: Piñata Theory, Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal, and Coatlicue Girl. Combined, they will introduce audience members to diverse and complicated identities, share life challenges and vulnerabilities, yet also celebrate moments of joy, love and personal acceptance.

About the Poets: Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley, a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco, and co-founding editor of HeadFake, an online NBA zine. Catch him rambling on Twitter @alan_chazaro.

MK Chavez is a writer, editor, and educator who splits her time between Portland, Oregon (the occupied territory of the Cowlitz, Clackamas, and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) and Oakland, California…