Lyrics & Dirges

Pop Up Poetry featuring Indigo Moor and Carol Dorf followed by an Open Mic. Spend your day with Lyrics & Dirges, 5-7pm PST. See invite for Open Mic sign up and Zoom Link. Hosted by Sharon Coleman

Come celebrate the work of Virgie Tovar, Lyzette Wanzer, & Carlo Matos tonight at Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition! 7:30pm! Zoom link in the Invite.

Lyrics & Dirges is dedicated to reaching out to include new voices at every reading--for several years we never repeated a reader--but we also bring back readers to celebrate their new books. Come celebrate Virgie Tovar's The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color that came out this May 1st! This Wednesday at 7:30pm. See the FB invite for the Zoom link. Virgie Tovar is author of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (Ne...w Harbinger 2020) and You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press 2018). She is the host of the podcast, Rebel Eaters Club (Transmitter Media NYC). She holds a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. Virgie is a contributor for Forbes.com where she covers the plus-size market and weight discrimination at work. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She has been named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine, and received Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera and NPR. See more

Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition is still every 3rd Wednesday and presenting the diverse voice of the East Bay. Join us tomorrow to hear the extraordinary work of East Bay educator Lyzette Wanzer. Zoom link is in the FB invite. 7:30pm Pacific Time. Lyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over twenty-five literary journals and books, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie), The Naked Truth, Essay Daily, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission and Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient, Lyzette serves as Judge for the Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category. She is currently helming an essay anthology entitled TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: UNTANGLING OUR HAIR THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Wednesday evening, Lyrics & Dirges Ether editions is so excited to present poet Carlo Matos! Join us at 7:30pm and pout yourself a glass of wine! See the FB invite for Zoom link. Carlo Matos has published ten books, most recently The Quitters (Tortoise Books). His work has appeared in such journals as Hobart, DMQ Review, and PANK, among many others. Carlo has received grants and fellowships from Disquiet, CantoMundo, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. He lives in Chicago, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago, and is a former MMA fighter and kickboxer. He blogs at carlomatos.blogspot.com.