Join us in celebrating the launch of Kimberly Alidio’s new poetry collection, After projects the resound (Black Radish Books). With readings from Kimberly, kt shorb, and Morgan Collado.

These poems are attuned to as many zeitgeists as reveal themselves. From Alidio’s dissecting eyes and focused hands—the “I [who] can sense the space around objects in the room because I’m often unnoticed”—the Filipino trait of Kapwa (interconnectedness) enables poems to arise and they bespeak: “This is exactly what gentleness is // dragging everything up whole—” —Eileen R. Tabios

Kimberly Alidio (center, above) wrote After projects the resound (Black Radish, 2016) and solitude being alien (dancing girl press, 2013). She held residencies at the Center for Art and Thought, Kundiman and VONA, and received fellowships from the University of Illinois’s Asian American Studies Program and Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program. She is a high-school history teacher and tenure-track dropout born in West Baltimore, raised in Baltimore County and living in East Austin.

kt shorb (left, above; BM, Oberlin Conservatory; MA, UT-Austin) is a director, writer, and performer who grew up in Massachusetts, rural Japan, and Tokyo. She trained and worked with Anne Bogart, Pirrone Yousefzadeh, Adelina Anthony, Sharon Bridgforth, Pauline Oliveros, and John Luther Adams. shorb is the Producing Artistic Director of the Generic Ensemble Company. Directorial work includes: THE MIKADO: RECLAIMED; ROBIN HOOD: AN ELEGY; WHAT’S GOIN’ ON?; THE EXPERIMENT (2012); STUCK ON GEE-DOT; THE PSYCHOPOMP PROJECT; RADIO KADUNA; A TORTOISE WALKS MAGESTICALLY ON WINDOW LEDGES; and EAGLE WOMAN POEMS. Her solo show, UNA CORDA has been performed in Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, Los Angeles, Oberlin College, and various Texas locations. She has served as faculty at Southwestern University and UT-Austin. She is currently directing on a solo performance installation by Shay Youngblood. She was a 2015 invited fellow at the Peer Leadership Exchange for the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation in Minneapolis, hosted by Pangea World Theater and Art2Action.

Morgan (right, above) is a working class femme trans Latina of Colombian and Puerto Rican origin. She works in Austin as a poet, performance artist, community organizer and family builder. She believes the revolution is not some distant day in the future but is right now by living, loving and thriving.