Nancy Aidé Gonzalez and Rhony Bhopla
Monday, January 13 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street
Host: Emmanuel Sigauke
Nancy Aidé González is a Chicana poet, educator, and activist. She graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. She attended Las Dos Brujas Writer’s Workshop in 2012. Her work has appeared in Huizache The magazine of Latino literature, Mujeres De Maiz Zine, DoveTales, Tule Review, Seeds of Resistance Flor y Canto: Tortilla Warrior, La Bloga, and several other literary journals. Her work is featured in the Sacramento Voices: Foam at the Mouth Anthology (2013). She is a participating member of Escritores del Nuevo Sol.
Tapestry of Dawn
Sun, summoning dawn
truth will come with portraits of consciousness
narratives of shelter
interlocked woven fabrics
find equilibrium
strings of transcendence in cosmos
beyond ancient knowledge alive
planets orbit echoing memory of universe
saffron stars manifest wholeness
nimbus treasures – rain
jaguars roam spirit realm
leave prints where
trees take root
in tierra firme
drawing humanity closer.
— Nancy Aidé González
Rhony Bhopla has been writing poetry since the age of 13. When first given a typewriter, she was inspired to type erotic poetry to increase her speed. Given that she was from a conservative East-Indian family, that practice was soon stopped. As an adult she continued to explore the genre. As an immigrant to the United States, she has been an advocate of exalting, splitting, collaborating, promoting, and eroticizing poetry that subjugates the reader to a multilingual voice, always trapped by the confines of her concrete abilities. Rhony is trying to set her imagination free. She’s recently been published in Medusa’s Kitchen. She feels that her poetry career will begin soon.
Luscious Phindhia
Okra, the binding, binding swell
of sticky gum
engulfing persperating
vegetable.What can I add
to this phallus, moist tipped
garden offspring?
Haldi.Elliptical beads that form
with water inside,
encapsulated by bronze
eradicating spice.Green plus yellow, does
not equal blue.
Arithmetic game falls
into desire chasing need.Word Key
phindia – okra
haldi – turmeric— Rhony Bhopla
