JUST BE(LOVED) Poetry Slam & Open Mic ft Amanda Torress #SEMIFINALS

JustBe(Loved) is a poetry slam and open mic that occurs every 1st & 3rd Friday at JustBook-ish and is curated by Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah and Crystal Valentine. The feature for this month will be, Amanda Torres, a writer, educator, and arts administrator from Chicago whose writing focuses on queer family, latine futurity, and social imaginaries.

Amanda Torres (AT) is a writer, educator, and arts administrator from Chicago whose writing focuses on queer family, latine futurity, and social imaginaries. Their poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in Not Your Papi’s Utopia, The Acentos Review, Breakbeat Poets, and At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships. Over the course of two decades, they co-founded a youth literary arts organization in Boston, directed The National Incubator for Community Engaged Poets, and have taught and developed creative, justice-oriented events, installations, workshops, and curricula for young people, artists, and educators across the nation. They hold an M.Ed from…