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Keana Aguila Labra w/ Kerry J Heckman, Marty Salgado, Kalehua Kim, Eric Lochridge, & Lorenz Mazon Dumuk

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · 7:00 PM PDT · Elliott Bay Book Company
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Keana Aguila Labra w/ Kerry J Heckman, Marty Salgado, Kalehua Kim, Eric Lochridge, & Lorenz Mazon Dumuk
Poet Keana Aguila Labra celebrates her new collection The Language of Unbreaking with readings from fellow poets. The collection explores memory, family, and identity through blended Cebuano and Tagalog poetry.

Lineup

  • Keanu Aguila Labra
  • Kerry J. Hickman
  • Marty Salgado
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  • Kalehua Kim

    Winner of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association inaugural Pasifika Poetry Award Singing with the manifold tongues of the ʻāina, Kalehua Kim gives us mana from the depths of her heart and of the heart of Hawaiʻi nei. Beautiful! A first book of rare clarity and meticulous care, Mele honors the duality of inheritance.

    Official site
  • Eric Lochridge

    Eric Lochridge is the author of My Breath Floats Away from Me and three poetry chapbooks: Born-Again Death Wish, Real Boy Blues, and Father’s Curse. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, UCity Review, Okay Donkey, Hawaii Pacific Review, Slipstream, and many others, as well as in anthologies such as WA 129 and Beloved on the Earth.

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  • Loren Z. Macon Dumuk

Venue

Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA · Capitol Hill, Seattle
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