Miriam’s Garden is a new reading series hosted monthly by Yago Cura at the Hyde Park Miriam Mathews Branch Library. Erica Ayón, William Gonzalez and Jeff Rogers featured in September. Continue reading Miriam’s Garden: A New Reading Series
by Brian Dunlap
It’s Saturday April 14th and the crowd is large. Café Con Libros is silent. There are no empty seats when I arrive so I stand. I’m in Pomona’s Art Colony for Obsidian Tongues, an open mic hosted by William Gonzalez and Ceasar K. Avelar. I’m 15-20 minutes late, and with the large crowd, worry there won’t be time for me to read as part of the open mic.
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