Tonight and every month until and including May second Thursday of the month
Poetry series
8-8:45pm featured poet
8:45-9:30 open mic
Symposia Bookstore [the only used bookstore in Hoboken! also have new books, books on tape, CD, intenet terminals, other cool events]
510 Washington St. in Hoboken [take bus or PATH from New York and walk west then north, uptown near 5th st. on washington]
This evening, Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Melida Rodas
Bio
Melida G. Rodas - Cora is a writer and artist whose work has been published in NJCU on-campus publications, in What We Hold in Common (The Feminist Press) and is forthcoming on an anthology, American Working – Class Literature, to be published by Oxford University Press. Her artwork has been exhibited in various art galleries and public spaces and as a featured writer, she has presented her work at: Barnes and Noble Book Stores, The Newark Museum, NYU, NJCU and Marist College. Also, she co-wrote the sold out play, “The Heist Project”, with Art House Productions.
She is currently working on her memoir titled “Me Llamo Guadalupe ”. Like a Mayan tapestry, it is a work of color embroidered by memories and present time experiences. Here words are threaded by Mayan art, Central American Customs, Guatemala food, North American culture, urban life, religious tradition and spiritualism.
(Although, to her family and friends she’s better known as Melida the really wacky, funny girl with big curly hair. Go figure.)
To see the rest of the series information, check out this link
http://www.symposia.us/article.php?id=40&PHPSESSID=d190921a1...
Melida, and the hostess of the series [me], and some of the audience members attend a weekly free poetry workshop that usually meets on wednesdays at 7-9pm at Beechwood cafe in downtown Jersey City on grove street, weekly assignments with copies for all, take turns reading and giving feedback, poems read by published poet of the month - join to get yourself writing regularly!
