The Target Shoots Back featuring: Chibbi
The Target Shoots Back is hitting the road—next stop: McAllen, TX!
Join us SATURDAY July 19 • 7–9PM at @commonspaceconcept for an unforgettable night of spoken word, radical joy, and community power.
Featuring special guests:
@uriel_landeros_conquista
@cesardeleon73
@amandapuryearel
@suapri
@edward_vidaurre
This is more than a show: it’s a gathering, a call to reclaim space, a celebration of the voices that refuse to be silenced.
Come through. Be moved. Be seen.
FREE ENTRY | Live painting | Album merch available
The Mouth Dakota Project Presents:
Edward Vidaurre
It's the regular open mic with amazing chips and queso, but also with special guest Edward Vidaurre.
Edward Vidaurre is an award-winning poet and author of ten collections of poetry. He is the 2018-2019 City of McAllen, Texas Poet Laureate, 2022 inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters, and publisher of FlowerSong Press. His writings have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Texas Observer, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other journals and anthologies. Vidaurre resides in McAllen, Texas with his wife Liliana, and daughter Luisa Isabella.
Edward will be reading from his latest book, El Viejo, published by El Martillo Press.
As seen on Poets & Writers
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Pandemia & Other Poems has been selected as a Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards.
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JAZZHOUSE, Wins the Award of Merit 2020 by The Philosophical Society of Texas for Best Book of Poetry by a Texas Author.
JazzHouse ~ compelling love songs to the intensity of everyday life; from the magic in the routine to the marvels and miraculousness of living. Edward Vidaurre takes us with him on his life trip, from East LA to the Rio Grande Valley and all the far reaching roots that accompany him in the form of ancestors, spirits, family, and other familiars. JAZzHOUSE is a base camp, and a life. We are invited in to share some food, some cafecito, or a glass of wine - to sit awhile and be grateful for every minute we are alive.
Prickly Pear Publishing, 2019
“Write with truth, conviction, kindness, and vulnerability. But never fear conflict writing, it's your revolution, it's what keeps you free.”
— Edward Vidaurre
I offer these medicine poems
“Sometimes the barrio claims us, holds us by our feet like roots in its field of chalk outlines closed off by the screaming yellow tape being pulled from its soul.” — Edward Vidaurre
Vidaurre, a Californian of Salvadoran ancestry transplanted to the Texas borderlands, writes poems that are loving evocations of mystery and memory, waking up the heart and rallying hope.