Calendar

You can hear me at the following events:

2025

Saturday, March 8th, 11 am Reading - Somos Xicanas, City of Commerce Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, March 19th, 6:30pm, Reading - WeHo Reads: Feminism and Fearlessness, Online, West Hollywood, CA

Wednesday, March 26th, 7pm, Reading - Resistance and Revival: a celebration of Los Angeles-based Latine poets, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, LA, CA

Wednesday, March 26th, 9pm, AWP Off-site Reading - Wednesday Night Poetry, The East Angel, LA, CA

Thursday, March 27th, 7pm, AWP Off-Site Reading - Octavio Quintanilla, ire’ne lara silva , J Bruce fuller, Marcela Fuentes, Deborah Miranda, Lisa Lee Herrick, Angelina Sáenz, Gustavo Adolfo Guerra Vásquez, bridgette bianca, Lindsey Haley, féi hernandez, Brian Sonia Wallace, Altar Los Angeles, LA, CA

Saturday, March 29, 2 pm Reading - Somos Xicanas, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA

Thursday, April 17th, 5pm, Reader & Panelist, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

Sunday, May 18th, 4pm, Reader - Roar Shack, featuring with Cara Lopez Lee, The Echo Park Time Travel Mart, Los Angeles, CA

PAST EVENTS

Sunday, February 23, 1:00 pm Somos Xicanas Reading, Mi Vida - 5159 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, January 25th, 2:30 pm Reading - Miriam’s Garden, Hyde Park Branch Library, Los Angeles, CA

Friday, November 30th, Reading and Book Signing, 6 pm, Jaguarland Open Studio, Pico Rivera, CA

Tuesday, November 26th, Reading and Book Signing, 1:30pm, Mt. Sac College, Student Center, Room 2030

Thursday, November 7 , Reading and Book Signing, University of California, Santa Barbara

Saturday, October 19, Reader - VersoFrontera Literature and Arts Festival, San Antonio, Texas

Tursday, October 17, Panel Discussion, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Ft. Worth, Texas

Tuesday & Wednesday, October 15 & 16, Featured Reader, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas

Sunday, September 29th, 6pm, Featured Reader, Chola Conference, Hello Stranger, Little Tokyo, LA, CA

Saturday, September 14, All Day, East Los Angeles Book Festival, East LA, California

Saturday, September 7th, 4pm, Featured Reader- Paris/LA Cultural Olympiad, Los Angeles Central Library, California

Saturday, August 31, 7pm, Reader, 54th Chicano Moratorium, Los Libros, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles

Thursday, June 13th, 7pm, Reading at Trenches Full of Poets, 2714 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA

May 16-18, 2024 El Mundo Zurdo Conference, San Antonio, TX

Thursday, April 18th, 5pm PST, Reading with Essentially Poetic: A Flowersong Press Series, Zoom Link Coming Soon

Sunday, April 14th, 1:00 pm, Reading at 2024 NELA Poetry Fest at Los Angeles College Prep, 625 Coleman Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Saturday, April 13th, 7:30pm, Reading at Verbatim Books, 3793 30th Street San Diego, CA

Friday, March 22, 2024 5:30pm, Escaramuza-the poetics of home Exhibit at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, 1720 Gendy St., Fort Worth, TX

Saturday, March 9, 2024, 7pm, Corazón Collective Chapbook there is so much I want to tell you Release Event, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, Texas

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7pm Triple Book Release: Angelina Saenz’ Maestra, Eddie Vega’s Somos Nopalitos, and ire’ne lara silva’s the eaters of flowers. Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St., Dallas, TX

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 6pm, Nuestra Palabra & Tintero Projects Present: Poetry at Torre Latina! featuring Marie Elena Cortes, Angelina Sáenz, Octavio Quintanilla, and ire’ne lara silva. La Torre Latina,150 W. Parker Rd, Fifth Floor, Houston, TX

Saturday, March 2nd 12pm, 8th Annual Boca de Oro Festival, Panel session with Cecilia Sanchez, Jesenia Chavez, Iuri M. Lara, The Santora Building Basement, Gallery B-6, Santa Ana, CA

Saturday, February 17, 2024 TIME TBA, Reading featuring Angelina Sáenz, Ire’ne lara silva, Jen Yáñez Alan’s and fei Hernandez, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, February 3, 2024 5pm, Book Release Event: Angelina Sáenz’ Maestra and Ire’ne lara silva’s the eaters of flowers, Resistencia Bookstore, Austin, Texas

Saturday, January 27th, 2024 2pm, Reading, Hyde Park Branch Library, Los Angeles, California

January 20, 2024, 6pm, MAESTRA book launch, Los Angeles, California

Friday, January 5, 2024 7pm, Feature Reader, Light the Mic, Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, California

Sunday, November 19, 2023 2pm, Palabras at Latinx with Plants, Los Angeles, California

September 22nd 8pm, Feature for Book Release for Teresa Mei Chuc, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, California

September 17th 5:00 pm LéaLa - Festival Literario - LA Plaza de La Cultura Y Artes, Los Angeles, California

September 8th 7:30pm ¿Qué me cuentas? Storytelling Night - Live Storytelling, Horchatería, Paramount, California

June 16TH 7pm Corazón Collective Reading, Café Mayapan, El Paso, Texas

June 17th 1pm Corazón Collective Workshop, El Paso, Texas

June 18 2-4pm Corazón Collective Workshop, Nopalito’s Galería, Las Cruces, New Mexico

June 18th 6pm  Corazón Collective Reading, Nopalito’s Galería, Las Cruces, New Mexico

June 20th 7pm Corazón Collective Reading, Jules’ Poetry Playhouse LLC, Placitas, New Mexico

June 22nd 6pm Center Corazón Collective Reading, National Hispanic Cultural, Albuquerque, New Mexico

June 23rd 7pm Corazón Collective Reading, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 24th 10 - 1:30pm  Corazón Collective Workshop, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

May 25th 7pm Perla Batalla Concert Appearance, Nakano Theater, Torrance, California

May 6th 12:30pm LitFest Pasadena Panel “Writing Our Own History”, Old Radiance Hall, Pasadena, CA

April 21st 11:30am, Chicano Park Day Poetry Stage with Karla Cordero and Julita Corrales, San Diego, California