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epi poetry reading Wed May 7th @ Cal State LA

About Me



Founded in 2001, the group Epicentro or EpiCentroAmerica doesn’t exist as it once did. But the passion for the creative work being done, the need to hear these voices and the desire to inspire new ones, does. Estamos listos mucha? Are you ready for the next quake to shake you out of that slumber? Desde el EpiCentro

Written about Epicentro in 2003 by founding member Raquel Gutierrez
From the center of America erupts EpiCentro: an organic literary ats collective straddling performance, spoken word and testimonial artforms, composed of inter-generational community-minded cultural activists of Central American extraction that write to resurrect memory and inspire action.
These Central American bodies in flux and immigrant voices rise from Hollywood bus stops, volcanic ashes, quetzal wings, peripheral MacArthur Park, SF Mission pupuserias y mas...
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Member Since: 8/1/2007
Band Website: epicentroamerica.blogspot.com
Band Members: Once a member always a member-These days we exist as a group only cyberspace and in the epicentro imagination...Once in while a group of us makes an appearance in 'real'space when properly coaxed and coddled.
Influences: Daisy Zamora, Claribel Alegria, Roque Dalton, Miguel Angel Asturias, Rigoberta Menchu, Giconda Belli, Manlio Argueta, Jacinta Escudos, Otto René Castillo, Ernesto Cardenal, Ruben Dario, Ramón Amaya Amador, Elia Arce, Romero, Bishop Geradi, Eduardo Galeano, Gloria Anzaldua, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Martin Espada, Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isabel Allende, Dostoevsky, Sherman Alexie, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison,Rainer Maria Rilke, LOS SIN NOMBRE, LOS DESAPARACIDOS..... who are your influences?

Poema de amor

Los que ampliaron el Canal de Panamá
(y fueron clasificados como "silver roll" y no como "gold roll"),
los que repararon la flota del Pacifico
en las bases de California,
los que se pudrieron en las cárceles de Guatemala,
México, Honduras, Nicaragua,
por ladrones, por contrabandistas, por estafadores,
por hambrientos,
los siempre sospechosos de todo
("me permito remitirle al interfecto
por esquinero sospechoso
y con el agravante de ser salvadoreño"),
las que llenaron los bares y burdeles
de todos los puertos y capitales de la zona
("La gruta azul", "El Calzoncito", "Happyland"),
los sembradores de maíz en plena selva extranjera,
los reyes de la pagina roja,
los que nunca sabe nadie de donde son,
los mejores artesanos del mundo,
los que fueron cosidos a balazos al cruzar la frontera,
los que murieron de paludismo
o de las picadas del escorpión a la barba amarilla
en el infierno de las bananeras,
los que lloraron borrachos por el himno nacional
bajo el ciclón del Pacifico o la nieve del norte,
los arrimados, los mendigos, los marihuaneros,
los guanacos hijos de la gran puta,
los que apenitas pudieron regresar,
los que tuvieron un poco mas de suerte,
los eternos indocumentados,
los hacelotodo, los vendelotodo, los comelotodo,
los primeros en sacar el cuchillo,
los tristes mas tristes del mundo,
mis compatriotas,
mis hermanos.

(Las Historias Prohibidas del Pulgarcito)
Sounds Like: Patojos y patojas, Cipotas y Cipotes, catrachos, ticos, nicas, chapines, guanacos...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Epis @ CSULA May 7, 7:30

http://www.myspace.com/useu...
Posted by Desde el Epicentro Book Project on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:09:00 PST

epi poetry reading Wed May 7th

Hola Vos,Epiamor, epiloca, epicentrist: a student organization at Cal State LA is organizing a poetry reading for you--American Central American--epipoet. Contact me and let me know if you can share o...
Posted by Desde el Epicentro Book Project on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:58:00 PST

Epicentro @ CSULB Nov. 1, 2007


Posted by Desde el Epicentro Book Project on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:03:00 PST

DESDE EL EPICENTRO

"An Anthology of U.S. Central American Poetry and Art"Introduction to forthcoming book:This anthology is about creating a home for those who have lost their home, who were taken from their home, who h...
Posted by Desde el Epicentro Book Project on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:22:00 PST

Book Update

Compitas,I'm working on compiling a book of poetry inspired by EpiCentroAmerica, born in centroamerica, founded in Los Angeles and propelled outward like an earthquakes aftershocks. Some of the origin...
Posted by Desde el Epicentro Book Project on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:06:00 PST

A call to arms! (the ones we use to write with)

So I was approached by a professor from the east coast if I had a book of poetry, literature or any other "cultural production" from the central american diaspora. I'm currently in the process of putt...
Posted by Desde el Epicentro Book Project on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:23:00 PST