Café Libro Open-Mike Presents

Poeta Kimberly Alidio

Featuring Selections from Her New Chapbook, Solitude Being Alien

With Friends and Other Special Guests

7 pm Friday, May 2, 2014

Hosted by Olivia Slusher

New Location: Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts
4926 East Cesar Chavez St., Unit C1, Austin, Tejaztlán 78702
(512) 389-9881 • revolu@resistenciabooks.com

Please make sure to park in the rear of the lot and enter through the second door of the lime green house from the front.
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Kimberly Alidio is a poet, historian, and teacher living in Austin, TX. She is the author of Solitude Being Alien (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems appear in Equinox Tinysides (Fact-Simile Editions), Drunken Boat, Spiral Orb, Horse Less Press Review, ESQUE, Bone Bouquet, Lantern Review, and Make/shift. Her scholarly essays and criticism are published in Social History, American Quarterly, Journal of American History, and Social Text. She is a VONA/Voices of our Nation Fellow and a Kundiman Fellow and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Awards include the Center for Art and Thought Artist-in-Residency, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship, the University of Illinois Asian American Studies Program Postdoctoral Fellowship , and the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Solitude Being Alien enacts dream re-enactments of archives, queer desire, colonialism, and girlhood. It revels in found and revived language, and the joys of unproductive searching.

The chapbook will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow the event.

Donations accepted.

This project is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.  Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.