365 Revolutions Free Event: Dramatic Reading and Book Signing

Dramatic Reading and Book Signing

Lucas Smiraldo, Author, Poet

Join author and past Tacoma Poet Laureate and Performance Poet Lucas Smiraldo in the launch of his illustrated hard cover masterpiece, six years in the making, 365 Revolutions. The book is a collection of daily liberation poems inspired by yoga poses that can be integrated into yoga practice or as food for reflection and social transformation.

Upright Bass Musician, Bill Berry in performance collaboration during the reading.

Bill Berry, Bass Musician

Smiraldo will dramatize these poems of embodied metaphors in song-prayers, soul-manifestos and persona monologues that implore change and unearth the hidden histories of an emergent nation of voices that demand a center space. Light refreshment and a book signing will follow immediately afterward.

“Lucas has written a book that calls us into deep embodiment, not for the purpose of transforming our physical shape or physical exercise. But instead to deepen our understanding of how we have been conditioned by dominant culture To heighten our awareness of how we and others are suffering in our bones, tissues, muscles, and hearts…To become aware of the reality that we must change…”
–Michelle Cassandra Johnson, Author of Skill in Action and National Yoga and Social Justice Trainer