Kiki—A Sky of Changing Lights… Book Launch & Reading
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, November 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Join us for a magical evening at the Chicago Art Department as we celebrate the book launch of “Kiki—A Sky of Changing Lights”. This special evening is brought to you by Kiki Club Editions, and promises to be filled with literary magic. We are lucky to have four of the anthology’s contributors joining us—Miguel Jiménez, Flor Flores, Melissa Castro Almandina, and L Goldstein
They’ll be reading both from the book and other selected works. This is your golden opportunity to meet the authors, mingle in a dreamy atmosphere, and, of course, take this beautiful anthology home. Lets Kiki
Featured Readers
Melissa Castro Almandina
Melissa Castro Almandina is an anarchist, poet, & resident artist at AMFM gallery. They write poetry, make zines, & dance ballet in their spare time. Find their work online, in zines, & in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.
Miguel Jiménez
Miguel Jiménez is a writer and professor of English living in Chicago.
L Goldstein
L Goldstein’s first collection of poetry, loaded arc, was released by Trembling Pillow Press in 2013 and her second collection, awesome camera was published by Make Now Press in 2014. They have also published several chapbooks with vibrant small presses across the country and give workshops in various places on somatic writing and pedagogy. They are a Senior Lecturer in Core Literature and Writing at Loyola University Chicago.
Flor Flores
Flor is a transdisciplinary artist and poet whose creative works revolve around the concept of queer belongings. Some themes in their works include flowers as a symbol for self (Flor), Kiki – a queer monarch butterfly that enjoys going to the discotheque, which has evolved into an experimental publishing project [kiki-club.com], and “X” – an Epic poem about the letter X, exploring its significance in Latinx identity and its other uses as a gesture of erasure, inclusion, voidance, and a placeholder for a language that is yet to come.
They recently exhibited at Everybody & Good Naked Gallery and have been featured in reviews and publications such as Artmaze, Sixty Inches From Center, New American Paintings, and Newcity Art. They are excitedly anticipating the publication of “Kiki: A Sky of Changing Lights” this Fall.
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