Original music inspired by two local authors! – Shin Yu Pai and Claudia Castro Luna

Curated by Pepe Montero

Bushwick is happy to celebrate two of our past INKALOUD! curators as this year's featured authors. Each will give a short reading along with the songs inspired by their work.

Don't miss this special event. Eight musicians, two authors, one incredible night!

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Adamantine - Shin Yu Pai

Performers include: Gary Mula, nance!, Tomo Nakayama, and Drea Marilyn.

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Killing Marías - A Poem for Multiple Voices, Claudia Castro Luna

Performers include: Tara Chugh, Nancy K. Dillon, Christiana Crabbe, and Alexis

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Book reviews of our two amazing authors

Adamantine - Shin Yu Pai

"Adamantine bristles with taut, startling language that continues to yield surprises even after readers realize that they are at serious play within the fields of the human heart, a realm in which 'we must know when to give in.'"–Carolyne Wright

"How wise of her to know that what is adamantine is the open heart. Fearless seeing, ancient mutterings on contemporary pathways and boulevards, inventive poetics, merciless memories and tender, knowing hands all take their proper place here."—Peter Levitt

Killing Marías - A Poem for Multiple Voices, Claudia Castro Luna

“In this epic poetry collection Killing Marías, Claudia Castro Luna, both poetically and physically, settles spaces that were unclaimed by Latinas. Her inscription of the disappeared women of Juárez is a live cartographic image of struggle and spiritual survival. Castro Luna does not allow for these dead women to lack agency; they nourish us and the earth, and they speak with their bodies, literally, positioning themselves as recovered entities with agency, in the poet’s skilled narrativizing hands.” – Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Ph.D., author of A Most Improbable Life and The Runaway Poems: A Manual of Love