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Our amazing reading photo was taken by Elisa Salasin!

Colossus Press is focused on gathering artists and writers in the spirit of resistance, mobilizing and giving voice to our passion for social justice. We create virtual and concrete spaces where we combine activism and art. We take the direct actions of publicizing pressing issues and making monetary donations to local organizations working on the ground. 
-Colossus: Published in 2017 and focused on the immigration crisis, included the work of 13 writers on the theme of immigration, proceeds from readings and book sales were donated to Freedom for Immigrants.
-Colossus:Home, published in 2019, included the voices of 68 writers on the theme of Home and donated all funds collected from sales of this book and from readings are donated to Moms 4 Housing.
 -Colossus:Freedom will be published in the summer of 2022. This anthology includes the writing and visual art of 48 individuals responding to the theme "freedom". This anthology includes the voices of currently incarcerated people, their family members, and victims of crime. We have also included writers who haven’t experienced a direct impact from crime or incarceration. All funds collected from sales of this book will be donated to support California Coalition of Women Prisoners.

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Home:Free is a reading featuring Tony Aldarondo, Elisa Salasin, Poet E. Spoken, Georgina Marie and Fred Dodsworth. These fantastic spoken work artists will read their powerful work and poems from Colossus:Home and our latest anthology Colossus:Freedom. Join us and celebrate the unstoppable combination of poetry and social justice.

Elisa Salasin is a poet and educator based in Berkeley, CA. She has poetry, essays, and photography published in Colossus:Freedom, AMP:always electric, SF Public Library Poem of the Day, sPARKLE & bLINK, CounterPunch, and the Bay Area Writing Project’s Digital Paper. Her first chapbook will be published in 2023.

Poet E Spoken is a History Teacher,Free Style Spoken Word Artist & Author of Cried Out Laughing  D -Day Aug 26 Co-Host of My Word, Vent

Georgina Marie is the Lake County Poet Laureate for 2020-2024, & a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast & Napa Valley Writers’ Conferences. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, & Poets.org, and is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Colossus:Freedom, and Yellow Medicine Review.

Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart is a writer, published poet, storyteller, performance artist, visual artist, radio producer and host, and author. Her poetry is published in many anthologies and has been shared internationally. Zakiyyah's recent book, Ghana On My Mind: Poetic Reflections on Journeying to the Motherland" was the #1 Best Seller in African Poetry on Amazon on March 13, 2021.

Tony Aldarondo has performed music and poetry in venues throughout the San Francisco Bay area, overseas and once while standing up on a jet blue airplane. He is also an actor and a voice over artist. His first poetry book titled,  BIG HEART POET from Humming Word Press is out now!

Fred Dodsworth's stories and poems have been published in Red Light Lit, Rag Mag, Troop, Oakland Review #3, riverbabble, Transfer, Milvia Street, Bay Area Generations, Writing Without Walls,Anti-Heroin Chic, Saturday Night Special, Something Worth Revising, US Represented, 11-9 the Fall of Democracy, RISE!, Colossus:Home, Poetry Apocalypse, and numerous others. Now he's created Dodsworth Books to publish interesting literary and visual works that might not find a publisher otherwise but definitely deserve to be published.

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Venue: Chapter 510 Leg: Two 5:30PM