Brava Book Release Pachanga

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Galeria E.V.A | San Antonio, TX

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¡Amiguis! Friends! Come celebrate with me the release of my very first poetry book BRAVA. I will read you some funny and deep poems in my trademark style. My guests will read as well:
--Eddie Vega, San Antonio Poet Laureate and spoken word artist
--Amalia Ortiz, American Book Award winner and punk singer/songwriter
--Dragonfly, La Pocha Nostra collaborator & master storyteller
We'll have light snacks, BRAVA merch, a book signing-- and of course, it wouldn't be a pachanga without the baile. Ajúaaaaaaa. Come dance with me and let's take a selfie with your copy of BRAVA. Can't wait to see you there.
BRAVA description:
BRAVA is a bilingual gut-punch of a debut—fierce, funny, and full of heart. Violeta Garza speaks from the messy middle: too Mexican, too white, too tender, too loud. These poems claim space in the body, in memory, in each awkward threshold. Drawing from ancestral memory, queer joy, and the ache of in-betweenness, Brava blends humor with heartache, sacred rage with laughter. Garza turns shame into sass and silence into sound. Brava is a bold offering for anyone learning that being brave sometimes means becoming unapologetically yourself.
BRAVA blurbs (see what Yesika Salgado, Rigoberto González, and Anel Flores have to say about BRAVA):
“Brava is a fierce and tender collection of poetry. Violeta Garza explores the constant question of belonging, of too-much-ness, of the understanding of the misunderstood—a bilingual love letter to home, self, and the beyond. To be Brava is much more than to
be angry; it is to be bold and daring. Garza gifts us a collection of poetry that dares to bare its teeth and name itself a miracle, a Bluebonnet raising her face to the sky.”
—Yesika Salgado, author of Corazón
“Let us celebrate our good fortune: that Violeta Garza’s voice is now part of a literary lineage of poetas chingonas—word warriors who dare to amplify the unsettling moments and experiences that afflict a woman’s body, peace of mind, and spirit. Brava, brimming with empathy, passion, but also bravado, soothes with the sensibility of a healer and commands with the ferocity of a comadre, which is another way of saying that there’s love medicine to be found in its empowering inquiry into womanhood.”
—Rigoberto González, poet and editor, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology
“This book is a holy reckoning. A honeyed lament. A bold prayer. It’s a love letter to the Body, to the Comadre, to our collective wounds and resilience. Each page feels like sacred breath: intimate, irreverent, hilarious, devastating. These words remind us that being too much, too tender, too jiggly is divine. If you’ve ever needed permission to weep, scream, whisper, or cackle under the covers with your soul sister, this is your scripture. BRAVA!”
—Anel I. Flores, author of Curtains of Rain &
Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas
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Galeria E.V.A, 3412 S Flores St, San Antonio, TX 78204-2807, United States

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