Poetry in the Park: Solange Aguilar

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Join us for an outdoor reading with award-winning poet Solange Aguilar, featuring selections from their debut collection Red Like Earth. Red Like Earth centers around the color red and explores the three main emotions Aguilar associates with it: love, anger, and their Indigenous identity.  The afternoon will also feature a Q&A and book signing session.

About the Poet:

Solange Aguilar (they/ze) is an award-winning queer Mescalero Apache, Yo'eme, and Filipinx (Kapampángan) multimedia artist, poet, and zinemaker. They are a 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize winner with Write Bloody Publishing, a co-winner of the Corazón de Oro from Raíces for their work on the Mispu Story Signs at Santa Barbara City College, and a first place winner in the Santa Barbara Poetry Slam. 

Aguilar is also a…