Join poets Kinsale Drake (Diné), Sunnie Ishtimonabi’ (Chickasaw), and Chantal Jung (Nunatsiavut Inuk) for an evening of poetry readings and a discussion of their work as writers, zinesters, multimedia artists, care workers, and more.

Signed zines, totes, and other items will be shared from Abalone Mountain Press and Changing Wxman Collective.

About Chantal Jung

Chantal Jung (she/they) is a Nunatsiavut Inuk and self-taught collage artist, writer, filmmaker, and zine creator originally from Happy-Valley Goose-Bay, NL, Canada (Nunatsiavut). She currently resides as a guest on unceded Muwekma Ohlone territory (San Jose, CA). Chantal has produced animated work for the musician Black Belt Eagle Scout, and her writing and artwork have been featured in Inuit Art Quarterly and on the Inuit Art Foundation's website. She is currently part of the Bartow Project and is a member of an Indigenous-led collective called Indigenous Honeys.

About Sunnie Ishtimonabi’

Sunnie Ishtimonabi’ (she/they) is a Black Chickasaw and though her people come from Oklahoma and Louisiana she was born and raised within the territory of the Confederated villages Lisjan (Vallejo). She currently still lives on Lisjan Ohlone land in Huchin (Oakland) where she is a senior at Mills College studying Sociology. She is a care worker, land nurturer and anompa shali (language carrier). Sunnie’s poetry explores what it means to straddle Blackness and Nativeness, grief work as well as her relationship to the land and her journey through language revitalization.

About Kinsale Drake

Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a writer and narrator whose work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Yale Literary Magazine, TIME, New World Coming (Torrey House Press, 2021), her zine Hummingbird Heart (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022), and elsewhere. She is an In-Na-Po Fellow, and the recent winner of the Academy of American Poets/Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize, and the Young Native Playwrights Award. Her work is forthcoming in Poetry Online, Poets.org, The Languages of our Love (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022), and elsewhere.