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November 1, 2017April 25, 2018Elsa ValmidianoLeave a Comment on Serenade

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Teamed up with the 25th Pinay artist featured on Slicing Tomatoes, @shannahorencio. Thought I’d open up the New Year with a simple sexy poem, "alone sexy pretty lil thing." Sexy sound recording included. LINK IN BIO. Thank you to Shannah Orencio for her sexy painting pairing. DO check her out in the Featured Artist section. I’ve long admired Shannah’s work and had been hoping to pair it with a poem, and I’m so glad it’s finally happening! While her paintings echo a subtle Romanticism, it’s the Pinay figure in her portraits whom she presents under a female gaze that doesn’t objectify, but subjectifies the female figure, sensual with tones of the erotic without being gratuitous but maintaining an elegant repose. Yes to giving voice! * * * #PinayPoet #PinayArtist #SexyIntellectual #dalaga

Happy 108th Birthday to my Lilong. Me and Lilong at my college graduation. He was a proud grandfather to see all of his American grandkids excel in their education, going beyond anything he ever dreamed of from the barrio. . . . Always thought of. Always inspiring. #LolosAreTheBest #Grandpas #Granddaughters #Legacy

Happy New Year, and look what I just received to ring it in! So honored to be part of this labor of love, The Precipice Collective’s debut anthology, PRECIPICE: WRITING ON THE EDGE. * * * “How do we explore the edge in order to learn, to listen (sound in shift, an echo distilled)? How do we experience feedback—resonance and residue—as writers, researchers, beings? In what ways are we mediums, conduits, and transmitters for our environment? Can our writing be the medium, or is it always the translation? When we linger on the edge how does our presence shift the gradient? Do we pass the words or do the words pass through? How can the writer learn the membrane by embodying the edge? If words are energetic architectures inhabitable in the reading of a text, then can they be used to translate the language of a landscape? As bodies return to land, to carbon, how does breath-memory haunt? In exorcising place do we suspend space-time?” * * * Official launch party with open site for purchases to follow shortly. And for educators out there, resources for teaching/workshopping with the text and a place for readers to contribute—to continue the conversation—will be on the Precipice-Collective website at: http://www.precipice-collective.org/writing-at-the-edge/. STAY TUNED!!!! #PrecipiceCollective #PinayWriter #Anthology

Happy 4th Anniversary, Cosmonauts Avenue! Honored to share space in this special anniversary issue. The complete piece, “Tbilisi” can be read here: https://cosmonautsavenue.com/elsa-valmidiano-nonfiction/. #PinayWriter #Tbilisi #Pregnancy #PregnancyLoss #CreativeNonfiction #CosmonautsAvenue

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