METRO ART PRESENTS “POETRY O’CLOCK,” an interactive POETRY
EXCHANGE POP-up in the historic UNION STATION INFORMATION BOOTH,
Friday, Dec. 10, from 1-7 p.m.
Los Angeles poets Taz Ahmed, traci kato-kiriyama and féi hernandez
will each have shifts, meeting one-on-one with visitors to create
individualized, personal poems on the spot. The booth will be
transformed into a bloomy wonderland by floral artist botanica brava,
an evolving project in creativity, collaboration, community and care
founded by nonbinary salvi floral practitioner and alien world builder
isa peña.
The schedule is:
• 1-3 p.m. — Taz Ahmed
• 3-5 p.m. — traci kato-kiriyama
• 5-7 p.m. — féi hernandez
About the Poets:
• Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller and
artist based in Los Angeles. She creates at the intersection of
counternarratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American
Muslim 2nd-gen woman. She has published two poetry collections:
“Emdash and Ellipses” (2016) and “The Day the Moon Split in
Two” (2020), which are featured in Tia Chucha’s “Coiled
Serpent” (2016). Her poetry has been commissioned by the Center for
Cultural Power, PolicyLink, the Garment Worker Center, KPCC’s
Unheard LA and more.
• traci kato-kiriyama is an award-winning multi-, inter- and
transdisciplinary artist; writer/performer; theatre deviser; cultural
producer; and community organizer grounded in collaborative process,
collective self-determination and art+community. She is a performer
and principal writer for PULLproject Ensemble, two-time NET recipient,
and NEFA 2021-22 finalist for their show “TALES OF CLAMOR.” Their
work is also featured in a wide swath of media and print publications
(including NPR; PBS; Elle.com; Entropy; Chapparal Canyon Press; Tia
Chucha Press; Bamboo Ridge Press; Heyday Books; Regent Press).
• féi hernandez is a trans, Inglewood-raised, formerly undocumented
immigrant artist, writer, healer. They have been published in POETRY,
Pank Magazine, Oxford Review of Books, Frontier Poetry, The Breakbeat
Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, amongst others. They are a Define American
Fellow for 2021 and are currently the board president of Gender
Justice Los Angeles. féi is the author of the full-length poetry
collection “Hood Criatura” (Sundress Publications 2020), which was
on NPR’s Best Books of 2020.
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