Leslie Bumstead is a poet, writer, and teaching artist in Maryland and DC. She currently teaches creative writing workshops for incarcerated adults in several Maryland prisons, poetry to non-speaking autistic teens and young adults, and literature, composition and creative writing to teens at community art space Rhizome DC. She co-creates distance-learning arts curricula for incarcerated people with artist Carien Quiroga. Her collection of poems, Cipher/Civilian, was published by Edge Books in 2005.
Lara Payne is an award winning poet, and has been a teaching artist since 2001. She works with students of all ages, often incorporating seasonal writing, nature, art and diverse writers into her curriculum.
Poema Zahir de Rafael Benavente Saavedra
Here is the live reading of the poem Zahir, made by its author, Rafael Benavente in Granada, Nicaragua in 2018. Benavente Saavedra consolidates her poetic work and has launched her latest collection of poems in December 2021. He is currently writing his third collection of poems, which will soon be published in 2024. However, from this his Itinerary, he already gave us a glimpse of the strength, vitality, and mastery of the written word that accompanies him. Raphael proposes, along with his poetry, to renew romantic verse and give us an antidote to the pain of the soul. Aguilar was the director, editor and photographer of the video.
Medium: Video
Year: 2018
Details: 2 minutes 20 seconds
Raúl Aguilar with the artistic name Héctor D'León, was born in 1973 in Estelí, Nicaragua, is a multifaceted artist and engineer. Influenced by his uncle, painter Donaldo Altamirano, and his father, a lawyer who first career was industrial design. He began formal art training at age 12 at the "Casa de la Cultura." Educated under the Jesuits at Central American High School, he developed a passion for literature and initially pursued "Arts and Letters" at UCA before switching to electronic engineering at UNI.
Music, Playwriting, Photography, Spoken Word.
Brian Suryah (b. Baltimore 1996) is a Baltimore-based transdisciplinary artist whose work explores the power of practice through the use of ritual, art and design to explore ancestral veneration, ethnobotany, collective liberation, diasporic anthropology and cultural archiving. The direction of Brian’s work is a direct response to an upbringing that lacked cultural context and a disconnection from the people and places that brought them to their place in the present.
Hello my name is Talanee Tillery. Better known as Dr.T
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Presenter
See more information about Los Angeles Times Festival of Books PresenterMedium: Speech
Year: 1999