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I'M/MIGRATION UNPLUGGED to Feature Local Native Poets

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Following on the heels of the successful 2013 production of I'M/MIGRATION, which featured artists in various performing arts disciplines, I'M/MIGRATION Unplugged presents an opportunity for poets to share their interpretation of movement across invisible yet very real boundaries by exploring the role of women today as influenced by the sociopolitical, economic and cultural boundaries in our communities, Wed March 18, 2015, 7-9pm. Donations Accepted

Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center: 4705 West Marginal Way Southwest Seattle WA 98106 (206) 431-1582. This event is donation only and is supported, in part, by an award from 4Culture, with partial funding from Seattle Arts and Culture.

Celeste Adame is an MFA Candidate in the inaugural class of the Lo-Rez program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She's been published in Yellow Medicine Review, As/Us, Santa Fe Literary Review and numerous IAIA student anthologies. When not writing, she makes her life in Auburn, WA with her family.

Natalie Díaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), which New York Times reviewer Eric McHenry described as an "ambitious..beautiful book." Her honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.

Nilka Wherrette is an Acéntos Poetry Fellow of Colombian descent who divides her time between Seattle and Colombia, S.A.. Her poetry explores contemporary issues as experienced through the lens of an indigenous, mixed race woman. She has a passion for exploring the marriage between poetry and stage, and her poem-dramas have been produced and performed on various stages in Seattle and Los Angeles. She is currently a student in the "Low Rez" MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, working on her first poetry manuscript.

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