Who We Are   |   Books   |   Order A Book   |   News & Events   |   Contact   |   Home

CDP Authors

"Cover to cover this book is magic. The poetry lifts from the page and shapeshifts into a thousand moving pictures that dance and sing and move seamlessly through time, place and gender. Maiana Minahal has taken a little-known Filipino folktale, spun it on its queer ear and made a most beautiful retelling.

Sharon Bridgforth, love conjure/blues

"In these poems, Sondayo and the Wind Goddess have written the Body back to History and beyond."

Leny Mendoza Strobel
Associate Professor American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University

Legend Sondayo

by Maiana Minahal
Legend Sondayo remixes an ancient Filipino myth with queer sensibilities, lyrical precision, and a sense of yearning that is at once specific and universal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maiana Minahal, a queer Filipina American poet and teacher, born in Manila, raised in Los Angeles, and currently living in San Francisco. She studied with June Jordan's Poetry for the People program, is a recipient of an Artist Award Grant from the Serpent Source Foundation, and is one of the founding members of the Queer Pin@y Kreatibo collective. She has most recently been published in the anthologies Going Home to a Landscape and Screaming Monkeys.

Learn more about the authors and their books.

Ananda Esteva
James Tracy
Maiana Minahal
Dani Montgomery

Molotov Mouths

The Outspoken Word Troupe. Molotov Mouths Website

  © 2009 Civil Defense Poetry