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Featured Readers

First Wednesday, February 1 ~ Alameda Island Poets on Zoom ~ Celebrating Black History Month
​7:00 pm - 9:00 pm            
Hosted by:  Cathy Dana and Alameda Poet Laureate, Kimi Sugioka
Featured readers:   Avotcja and Nia McAllister and our youth poet, Zouhair
        
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                                              Avotcja 
                  POET/PLAYWRIGHT/MULTI-PERCUSSIONIST/PHOTOGRAPHER/TEACHER

​Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She’s an award winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist. She’s a popular Bay Area DJ & Radio Personality & leader of the group “Avotcja & Modúpue” (The Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group Of The Year in 2005 & 2010). Avotcja teaches Creative Writing & Drama & is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates Of Minorities Org.), PEN Oakland, California Poets In The Schools, Local 1000 American Federation of Musicians & an ASCAP recording artist. Her latest Book is “With Every Step I Take 2” (Taurean Horn Press 2022). Visit her website here!

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                                         Nina McAllister  
​Nia McAllister is a Bay Area born poet, writer, and environmental justice advocate working at the intersection of art, activism, and public engagement. As Senior Public Programs Manager at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Nia creates participatory spaces for creative expression and literary dialogue. Nia’s writing and poetry have been featured on Poets of Color podcast and published in Radicle magazine, Meridians journal, and Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion (Nomadic Press, 2022).


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