~Jenuine I’m sitting here lights down low candles all a glow my stomach is churning I’m about to go on stage but not quite yet it is the before music is playing and all I can think about is how much I want to hold your hand I wish you were here These moments that [...]

    On Saturday, September 24, 2011 poets all over the globe will be stepping up to microphones in coffee shops, bookstores, cafes, community spaces, living rooms, street corners, and anywhere else people gather to share–in solidarity–our poems about change.  I get chills every time I just think about this event!  Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural [...]

~ L.B.Nelson Mellow-strange it is at first. Choiceless soul enwrapped Within the surreal, fleecy blanket of grey clouds Crocheted loosely. Here-and-there Golden, sun-glow threads Woven throughout; Beautiful-sobering; Oddly serene. Seemingly infinite textile; Dissipates slowly, then scatters; Now-and-then sparkles Left behind. Great mercy While stepping through What is left for us to do.

~Jenuine for some it is a glass of wine to unwind at the end of a stressful day for others a grueling and intense session at the gym to work off steam for some it is headphones in the ears and volume on blast not a second thought spent on the past for others it’s [...]

~Jenuine I am resilient stubborn as a thistle rugged stem protective prickles soft, vibrant, bloom though I may be tossed about by wicked whistling winds I am not easily broken though I may be cut down by sleek sharp slices I am not easily destroyed though I may be ripped out by careless or clumsy [...]

~Jenuine the greatest change begins not with world leaders and heads of state I will not be ruled by hate the most epic transformation occurs not in the spotlight of the world stage I choose to heal the grandest evolution is not what can be seen in the mirrors of the Hubble I will seek [...]

~Jenuine I see you there back of the class on the edge of the field kickin’ rocks as you walk down the street I see you there grown up problems weighin’ down on still boy shoulders I see you there hiding in the bathroom stall mascara runnin’ down your face no words in the language to [...]

~Jenuine I celebrate my sisters who put pen to paper and give sound to our story and volume to our voice creating a collective consciousness unified in the vision of womyn writers and poets and artists and leaders and thinkers and doers I celebrate my mothers who drew lines in the sand stepping out of [...]

~ Angie Castro FOR HOURS AND HOURS ON THE COLD PAYMENT YOU LAY WHILE A FEW BLOCKS AWAY I WAS DRIFTING AWAY THE SEE THE MOON LIGHT’S FADING THE PHONE RINGS AND I HEAR THE SCREAMS “TELL ME IT’S NOT TRUE AND HE IS THERE THEY TOLD ME HE’S ON HUBBARD & 4TH AND THAT [...]

Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural is hosting their 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival on Saturday May 21, 2011 from 1-7pm at LA Mission College and In the Words of Womyn will be there hosting a networking tent for Emerging Writers and Chapbook sales and YOU are invited! If you are an emerging writer and are interested [...]