7pm Friday March 20, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St. (512-416-8885)

Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro, a bi-monthy open mike series, featuring activist/writer Samiya Bashir. Samiya’s collection of poetry, Where the Apple Falls, was a finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Samiya’s newest book of poetry, Gospel, is forthcoming in March 2009 from RedBone Press.

Bashir is the editor of two groundbreaking anthologies: Best Black Women’s Erotica 2 and co-editor, with Tony Medina and Quraysh Ali Lansana, of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. Bashir’s poetry, stories, articles, essays and editorial work have been featured in numerous publications including: Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Other Countries: Voices Rising, Callaloo, Reverie, Carry the Word, Essence, Obsidian III, Cave Canem #7, Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, Contemporary American Women Poets, Best Lesbian Erotica 03, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Ms. Magazine, Black Issues Book Review, Curve, Vibe, Seventeen, XXL, Lambda Book Report, and The American Journal of Public Health. Bashir is a fellow with Cave Canem and a founding organizer of Fire & Ink, a writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent.

She is currently an Artist in Residence with The Austin Project: www.samiyabashir.com. We invite poet/artistas to come share/enjoy the cantos & cuentos of emerging & established writers/musicians. Hosted by Carole Metellus.