POETRY NIGHT: We’ll be hosting a poetry open mic followed by a reading by featured poet Amelia Díaz Ettinger. Come and share a poem you have written, or a poem you love!

Sign-ups for poetry open mic will begin at 6 pm. Each reader is limited to 2 poems or 5 minutes. Please know this is an all ages event, all are welcome, and adult content may possibly be shared. If you have any questions about poetry open mic, please email events@paulinaspringsbooks.com.

About Self-Dissection:

In Self-Dissection, Amelia Díaz Ettinger makes an anatomical journey through the physical body to find answers about heritage, environment, family, and the nature of being an immigrant. The poems in these pages are written in a crisp pen like in an anatomical text, but allows for the lyrical and metaphor to scrape the surfaces of the physical reality that is underneath, that ethereal something that is so often hard to embody.

Author bio:

Amelia Díaz Ettinger is a BIPOC writer who has lived all of her adult life in Eastern Oregon but whose poems are often sustained by the tropical breezes of her island, Puerto Rico, where she grew up. Her poems relate to that otherness found in immigrants and the need to conserve morsels of identity so often confused in a different landscape.