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Beaugeste

Two seemingly modest gifts with enormous power.
A book of poems gifted to me by a friend with an iconoclastic fire.
An enormous share of wild rosemary perfect for baking focaccia on this hot day.
The word?
"Beaugeste"
Small and beautiful mercies.

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Scenes from Pendemonium’s July show. Thank you, Erik Bitsui and Cathy Tompkins, for sharing your unique artistry and point of view! Another great audience who was hanging on every word. Thank you for supporting local artists.
Pendemonium will return in September! Enjoy the rest of your summer and keep on writing.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #spokenword #arizona

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Get ready, poetry people. Pendemonium is proud to bring you Erik (Hostiin) Bitsui as our special guest on Thursday, July 23 at the Queen B Vinyl Café. He is truly one of a kind.

Hostiin (Erik) Bitsui, a Navajo from Blue Gap, Arizona, has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Bitsui is the author of Gutter Punk: A Micro Memoir (rinky dink press), and Mosh Pit Etiquette Volume One: Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger (Tolsun Books). He lives with his wife and two daughters in Flafstaff, where he is a DJ for a weekly heavy metal radio show on KSZN 101.5 FM. We’re pumped for this show!

Plus readings from your Pendemonium favorites. $5 cover at the door. 6:30 pm. See you there 🤘

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Nightcap for the 10-year Anniversary @rinkydinkpress poetry festival. We've been fortunate to publish an eclectic array of dazzling poets and it was exciting to have a bunch of them gather for one day in Phoenix.
Here's to another decade of going out of business 🍸

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Tiniest big top rinky dink poetry festival this Saturday 📣
This Saturday is a free rinky dink press poetry festival on Grand Ave ✨️
This is to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of rinky dink press with a bunch of rdp poets from around Arizona. Flagstaff, Cottonwood, Tucson, and even Las Vegas.

1-3pm at Trans Am Cafe
with an open mic round at about 3:30pm

5-8pm Malegria Latin Cafe courtyard

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Had a great time reading with Farid Matuk for the wonderful students at Mesa Community College (big thanks to Jeremy Broyles and Dexter Booth for arranging this) and other recent things.

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@noazbookfest photo dump. 📝✏️📚✨🌻✨ #northernbookfestival #flagstaff #rezreaders #nativenerds

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my favorite book festival + the colorado plateau region’s finest, thank you @noazbookfest

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NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL PART 2 aka NDN GIRLS BOOK CLUB KARAOKE PARTY 🪩 #northernarizonabookfestival #ndngirlsbookclub #karoake #DISCO

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Thank you for having us, @noazbookfest! We had a good time despite the wind and cold, and paperweights were aplenty. We were elated to share table space with @rinkydinkpress and to hear our featured reader Megan Merchant (@meganmerchantpoet) share poems in the square.

1. “Last Night in the Pit…”—Erik Bitsui and Shawnte Orion with Shō No. 6

2. Will Cordeiro, whose poem “Alpenglow” appears in Shō No. 7

3. Shawnte Orion and Johnny Cordova with wind-ready displays

4. Blurry screen cap of our featured reader Megan Merchant reading in Heritage Square

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🌟Twisted Tongue’s Best American Essays Noninations🌟

Take a gander at these gorgeous nonfiction works in issue 1 of Twisted Tongue!
🔗Link in bio🔗

Born in Santo Domingo and raised on Long Island, Francisco Martínezcuello writes about the aftershocks of war, memory, and belonging. His work appears in Hippocampus Magazine, Split Lip Magazine, River Teeth: Beautiful Things, Hobart Pulp, The Line Literary Review, and Collateral Journal. He’s a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and an Into the Fire Writing Retreat Scholar.

Monica Prince (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Activist and Performance Writing at Susquehanna University and the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Roadmap: A Choreopoem. Her creative focus includes choreopoems, performance poetry, and social justice.

Erik Bitsui, a Navajo from Blue Gap, Arizona, has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Bitsui’s first book, Mosh Pit Etiquette, Volume One: Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger, was published in November 2023 by Tolsun Books. Hostiin Bitsui lives with wife and two daughters in East Flagstaff.

John Janelle Backman (she/her) writes about gender identity, ancient spirituality, the strangeness of karma, and whatever else comes to mind. She has published in Catapult, Typehouse, HerStry, and Braided Way, among other places, with a piece forthcoming in The Iowa Review. Her essays have made several contest shortlists and earned a few Pushcart nominations. Find Janelle at www.backmanwriter.com.

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🤘Rough Rock Monday Morning by Erik Bitsui🤘

Read the rest of Erik’s piece in issue 1 of Twisted Tongue!
🔗Link in bio🔗

Erik Bitsui, a Navajo from Blue Gap, Arizona, has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Bitsui’s first book, Mosh Pit Etiquette, Volume One: Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger, was published in November 2023 by Tolsun Books. Hostiin Bitsui lives with wife and two daughters in East Flagstaff.

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