PreTenderizing Poetry event
October 12, 4-6PM
before the Rad Tender exhibition opening,
in an almost empty gallery,
poets Tureeda Mikell, Susana Praver-Pérez and Naomi Quiñonez
will embed the divine, the resilient, the changeful into the space,
writing on walls and reading their words.
Dream Farm Commons 349 15th Street Oakland CA94612
Biographies
Tureeda ‘Ture Ade’ Mikell
Susana Praver-Pérez
Naomi Quiñonez
Tureeda ‘Ture Ade’ Mikell, award-winning poet and story medicine woman, is a Black Panther Party Alum, an activist for holism, and hell bent on asserting life. Author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (2020) nominated for the California Book Award, and The Body: Oracle of Memory (2024), both published by Black Lawrence Press (NY). She received Berkeley Poetry Festival's 2024 Life-time Achievement Award.
Susana Praver-Pérez is a bilingual Oakland-based poet. Her first book, Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award (2022). Her second collection, Return Against the Flow was chosen by both Ms. Magazine and NYU’s Latinx Project as one of the best poetry books of 2024 and is currently a finalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Poetry Award.
website: susanapraverperez.com
Dr. Naomi Quiñonez is the author of three collections of poetry Exiled Moon, The Smoking Mirror and Hummingbird Dream. Her work appears in publications including Voices From The Ancestors, the Colorado Review, Infinite Divisions and From Totems to Hip Hop. She has shared her work throughout the U.S., Mexico, Spain and Cuba. Quiñonez is a recipient of the Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award, a Rockefeller Fellowship, the American Book Award, and the Latino Book Award.