Featured Readers
Wednesday, October 6 ~ Alameda Island Poets on Zoom
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month/Latinx Heritage Month
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz, Cathy Dana and Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate
Featured readers: Aideed Medina, Susana Praver-Pérez, and Josiah Luis Alderete
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month/Latinx Heritage Month
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz, Cathy Dana and Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate
Featured readers: Aideed Medina, Susana Praver-Pérez, and Josiah Luis Alderete
Aideed Medina
Aideed Medina is a poet, and spoken word artist. She is a member of Reforma del Valle Central, advocating for “libros y comunidad”, and of Mothers Helping Mothers, an organization that works to alleviate crisis needs caused by political and environmental disasters. She is a UC CNP certified California naturalist, and practices “flor y canto" as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history.
Her work has appeared in Fresno State's Club Austral Literary Magazine, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal, La Bloga, Poets Responding, Art of the Commune, Split This Rock , Nueva York Poetry Review, and as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix, Fresno Grand Opera.
Aideed Medina is a poet, and spoken word artist. She is a member of Reforma del Valle Central, advocating for “libros y comunidad”, and of Mothers Helping Mothers, an organization that works to alleviate crisis needs caused by political and environmental disasters. She is a UC CNP certified California naturalist, and practices “flor y canto" as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history.
Her work has appeared in Fresno State's Club Austral Literary Magazine, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal, La Bloga, Poets Responding, Art of the Commune, Split This Rock , Nueva York Poetry Review, and as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix, Fresno Grand Opera.
Susana Praver-Perez
Susana Praver-Pérez is a Pushcart-nominated poet and a winner of the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Prize for Poetry (2021). Born and raised in New York, Susana currently resides in Oakland, California where she works as a Physician Assistant at La Clínica de la Raza.
Susana’s work has appeared in various literary journals including About Place Journal, The Acentos Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Culture Counts Magazine, La Respuesta, Meow Meow Pow Pow Press, Milvia Street Art and Literary Journal, Nueva York Poetry Review, Poets Reading the News, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Sparkle + Blink, Toho Press, Writing for Peace: Dovetales, as well as numerous anthologies. Susana’s first full-length book of poetry, Hurricanes, Love Affairs and Other Disasters, is now available from Nomadic Press.
Susana Praver-Pérez is a Pushcart-nominated poet and a winner of the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Prize for Poetry (2021). Born and raised in New York, Susana currently resides in Oakland, California where she works as a Physician Assistant at La Clínica de la Raza.
Susana’s work has appeared in various literary journals including About Place Journal, The Acentos Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Culture Counts Magazine, La Respuesta, Meow Meow Pow Pow Press, Milvia Street Art and Literary Journal, Nueva York Poetry Review, Poets Reading the News, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Sparkle + Blink, Toho Press, Writing for Peace: Dovetales, as well as numerous anthologies. Susana’s first full-length book of poetry, Hurricanes, Love Affairs and Other Disasters, is now available from Nomadic Press.
Josiah Luis Alderete
Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho, spanglish speaking poeta who first learned how to write poesia in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was one of the founding members of Bay Area outspoken word group “The Molotov Mouths” and is the curator and host of the long running monthly Chicano/Latinx reading series “Speaking Axolotl”. This year he had the honor of being one of the recipients of the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award and also had his first book of poems “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos” published by Black Freighter Press.
Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho, spanglish speaking poeta who first learned how to write poesia in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was one of the founding members of Bay Area outspoken word group “The Molotov Mouths” and is the curator and host of the long running monthly Chicano/Latinx reading series “Speaking Axolotl”. This year he had the honor of being one of the recipients of the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award and also had his first book of poems “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos” published by Black Freighter Press.