Our featured reader this month is Lion and Pirate regular, Edith Tapia “Blackbird”. Edith was born in her beloved country, Mexico. She took part in local events since elementary school, including  “Civil Mondays”, writing patriotic and traditional poems to perform for government members.

In middle school, Edith competed in a poetry statewide contest, winning second place. In high school, she won second place in a poetry nationwide contest. The Sonora University awarded her an honorable mention for her participation in their regional literary contest with the piece “Plegarias de Una Luna Enamorada” and was published in their anthology Realidad Aleatoria.

Now living in the USA, Edith attends open mics sharing her bilingual work. She has been featured twice for the “Austin Poetry Society” monthly event in 2018 and also published in their anthology 2020. She has won three times the Ekphrastic challenge in “Hearsay Poetry” open mic and been published on hearsaypoetry.com. Read Edith’s poems at Medium and Wattpad. After we’ve flown with Blackbird, it will be your time to shine. As always, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!

Performers sign-up. For more details, check out our Facebook page.

Questions? Please contact Ms Boye, [email protected].

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