inner ear poets

inner ear poets (of fresno)

Inner Ear Poets (of Fresno) - Bocanova

S. Bryan Medina and his poetry have graced stages in Fresno Ca, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Kansas City. Bryan founded the Inner Ear Open Mic, The Beat Down Slam, and Poetry and Pints Free Writer’s Workshop.He is the author of More than Soil, Less than Sand (2017 HBE Publishing), and his forthcoming book Tears Of A Man Transfixed (2024 Out Loud Publishing). In 2017, Medina was named Fresno County's third Poet Laureate serving a distinguished 2-year term. Bryan is a Desert Shield, Desert Storm/Gulf War Veteran, and a graduate of Fresno Pacific University.


Roy Zuberi is from the Westside of Fresno California. Whitesbridge to be exact. Currently in pursuit of his BA in English studies, he has self-published a chapbook "American Allegory" and  featured in Fresno City College Literary Magazine of 2014. He competed in two NPS events, both in Oakland. He is very honored to have the opportunity to share work and humbled to be on an Oakland stage once again.


Michael Jasso is a Spoken Word Artist from Visalia. He has been Lead Organizer of Visalia’s Loud Mouth Poetry Jam for the last 10+ years bringing out the world’s most talented poets, as well as showcasing the talent of the Valley’s poetry community back to the world. He represented his home venue at the 2014 & 2015 National Poetry Slam in Oakland, competed in the 2018 Individual World Poetry Slam as a Storm Poet, a member of the 2023 Slam Team, and is the current 2024 Loud Mouth Grand Slam Champion. His work can be found in such collections as Dia De Las Poeticas (2020), Wayside Shrines & Other Offerings (2022), Flies, Cockroaches, & Poets (2023), and most recently Burn After Reading & Other Remains (2024).


Aideed Medina is a Chicana writer, a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, award winning spoken word artist and playwright. She is a UC certified California Naturalist. 
Her work has appeared in Fresno State's Club Austral Literary Magazine, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal, Split This Rock, Nueva York Poetry Review,The Common, Farmworkers Portfolio, Issue #26 Amherst College. as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix, Fresno Grand Opera, and co-writer of Eclectic Collective plays: Encounter Intuitive,and Artista Invisible. She is the author of 31 Hummingbird by Editorial Xingao and a forthcoming full-length poetry collection,
Segmented Bodies, from  Prickly Pear Press.

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