Indelible Ink

LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM - Deyo on Parchment Raised in Buffalo, Bertram has been a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholar, a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists’ Refuge, and is a Cave Canem alumna. Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Narrative Magazine, Subtropics, and other journals. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars poetry contest and has won the Gulf Coast Magazin...Continue reading

MICHAEL WARR - Deyo on Parchment Michael Warr’s books of poetry include The Armageddon of Funk, We Are All The Black Boy, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex, all published by Tia Chucha Press. His literary awards include the 2012 Poetry Honor Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library, the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and others. A frequent collaborator w...ith musicians, visual and perfor ming artists, Michael’s poems have been dramatized on stage, depicted on canvas, and set to original music compositions. Most recently his poetry was reviewed in The Crisis Magazine, which was founded by W.E.B. DuBois. His poems, essays, and links to recordings and videos can be found at Armageddonoffunk.com. LUIVETTE RESTO - California Pigment Luivette Resto was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. In 2003, she completed her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her first book of poetry Unfinished Portrait was published in 2008 by Tia Chucha Press and later named a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is also a contributing poetry editor for Kweli Journal, a CantoMundo fellow, and the hostess of a monthly poetry reading series called La Palabra located at Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles. J. WALKER - Composed Calligraphy J Walker is poet, performer and spoken word musician. He has four original CD’s Ambition of a Writer (2011), Rhymecology (2006), Hiphopoetry (2003) and Mind Pounds (2003.. The resident poet on the Fox Sports Radio talk show, The Loose Cannons (hosted by Pat O'Brien, Steven Hartman and Vic Da Brick Jacobs), he is dedicated to helping at-risk youth express themselves via spoken word. TRINI RODRIGUEZ - Ink Spot Trini Rodriguez is a long-time resident of the Northeast San Fernando Valley, graduating from CSUN as a bilingual teacher. She later moved to Chicago for 17 years where she was a newspaper editor/writer and court interpreter. In 2000 she returned to her hometown Pacoima, soon co-founding Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore with her husband, author/poet Luis J. Rodriguez, in Sylmar. She is the volunteer Operations Director at Tia Chucha's, writing poetry in the women 's writing circle. KATERINA TOMAS - Fine Resin Katerina has performed flamenco throughout the U.S., Canada, and in Spain.Katerina studied flamenco with giants in the field, including Gypsy dancer Rosa Montoya, Roberto Amaral, Inmaculada Aguilar, Alejandro Granados, and with the legendary nuevo flamenco artists Antonio Canales, Joaquin Grilo, and Eva "La Yerbabuena."

Trini Rodriguez, Jay Walker, Luivette Resto, Katerina Tomas, and Michael Warr were amazing tonight!

Katerina Tomas was spectacular with her Flamenco!