SCRIBES WORLD 7

MARCH, 2025.

I guess this is it, huh? Spring is coming soon baby, we fucking made it, no more winter, it’s over for the haters.

Thank you all for coming to last month’s SCRIBES monthly event. I love you all, such a beautiful night. HERE are the photos from the February SCRIBES.

This month, we have a double feature!! The event is also a part of this year’s A Writer’s Party, an AWP alternative weekend of accessible literary events. Here is the lineup for A Writer’s Party:

The features for March 2025 are Mary Zhou & Cole Solis Jativa. The event is hosted by me (NDR).

MARY ZHOU is currently exploring Chinese ancestral spirituality and queer diasporic identity through visual poetry, lyric essay, and movement.

They are the author of cave mouth tongue loose (The Head & The Hand Press, 2024) in collaboration with visual artist Nora E Luks.

HERE is some writing from Mary.

COLE SOLIS JATIVA is an Ecuadorian interdisciplinary artist with a specialization in printmaking, poetry, and book arts. Currently she is pursuing two graduate degree programs at SUNY New Paltz: an MA In Creative Writing and an MFA in Printmaking at SUNY New Paltz. She considers her work to be driven by an environmentally conscious lens with a focus on sustainability and her footprint. Regarding minimal waste, for example, Cole has a passion for handmade paper. Conceptually she embraces the dance between poetry and visual. She believes the symbiosis between language and visual continually nurtures a path into the multiple life forms creativity intends to invite in. In her latest work, “Sheathed by the Wing of an Albatross,” a limited edition artist book, she deconstructs the psychological turmoil found in children of immigrated individuals, like herself, through storytelling in her poetry. A vital and initiative work embarking her career, the redemption piece is a form of mending wounds and expressing gratitude for her treaded journey. There are 9 prints paired with 9 poems. The images are viscosity inked collagraph and drypoints and the words are typewritten on her Olympia De Luxe typewriter..

HERE is some writing from Cole:

I hope you fuck with these poems the way that I do. HERE is the flier for the March Monthly SCRIBES event.

As always, thank you all for being a part of this poetic project I have been running for a few years. There’s no end in sight. The poem is ongoing. Never stop writing. Surrender to the voice. Read poems. Kick ass. See you on the 30th.