S.O.M.O.S. SUMMER WRITERS' SERIES
Next Reading: Friday, July 28, 7:30 pm at the Harwood Museum
Joint Benefit for Community Against Violence
DORA MCQUAID
Descendant of traveling gypsies, Irish Golden-gloved boxers, and strong women, Dora McQuaid combines passion for language with activism, using poetry and performance as a means of empowerment. Winner of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Pathfinders Award and Vagina Warrior Honoree, McQuaid is also the subject of Kate Bogle’s short film, “One Woman’s Voice,” and current Artist-in-Residence at the Harwood Museum.
SUSAN BERMAN
Singer-songwriter Susan Berman performs with indigenous instruments native to the southwest and Mexico. In Mexican tradition, the songwriter’s duty is to give voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Berman’s world-folk music gives voice to the heart and soul as it confronts universal issues of peace, justice, and authentic relationship.
MICHELLE HOLLAND
Michelle Holland’s poetry has been anthologized in The Practice of Peace, Written with a Spoon: A Poet’s Cookbook, Mirror Mirror: Reflections on the Way We Look, and published in Puerto Del Sol, Manzanita Quarterly, and Journal of New Jersey Poets. Slam poetry coach for the Espanola Valley Youth Slam Team, Holland also coordinates New Mexico Culturenet’s Poetry in the Schools Program in Santa Fe, and is co-poetry editor of Sin Fronteras Journal.
Admission is $5 for S.O.M.O.S. members / $7 non-members
