Poetry Reading with EPFC Collective at Heavy Manners Library

WORKING TOGETHER: POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE

Monday, March 31: 7 – 9 PM

Join us for a beautiful evening of poetry as we celebrate the work and friendshipour March 2025 Il Nido Artist In Residence, Dora Prieto.

Dora Prieto is an emerging poet based in Vancouver and Mexico City. Her work appears in publications including Acentos Review, Capilano Review, Catapult, GUTS Magazine, the Ex-Puritan, and Maisonneuve. Her debut manuscript Girl Tejido ( unstable threads ), was selected for the 2024 Writers’ Trust Mentorship award and will hopefully be coming out sometime this year. She is also co-translating an award-winning poetry book titled JAWS by contemporary Mexican poet Xitlalitl Rodríguez, with support from the Canada Council and working on a self-published chapbook loosely centred around insomnia. Her work has been awarded by the BC Arts Council, the CBC Poetry Prize, and the Canada Council. She enjoys sharing the tools of poetry-making in her communities, rooted in a project called El Mashup, a workshop for Latinx youth that centers hybrid practice and amateurism in experimental poetry, fiction, analog cinema, sound art, and performance.

FREE EVENT! REFRESHMENTS SERVED! ALL WELCOME!

Heavy Manners Library is located at 1200 N. Alvarado St, Los Angeles, 90026