NEWS + EVENTS
2024
FOOD POETRY WORKSHOP AT FEATURE FLORA
SUNDAY, 3/24 - 3:30PM - 5:30PM
$45 registration
Feature Flora, Downtown Raleigh, NC
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE READING (FACILITATED BY THE POET LAUREATE OF SLCC, BRENDA SIECZKOWSKI
Thursday, March 28 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Technology Building, TB 104 Auditorium 4600 S Redwood Rd, Taylorsville, UT 84123
ECHOES AND VISIONS READING SERIES (FACILITATED BY WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE)
Monday, February 26th, 7:00 pm EST
https://worwic.zoom.us/j/94883260842
2023
WEST END POETRY FESTIVAL CONVERSATION & READING
On Friday, Oct. 20, Carrboro Poet Laureate Liza Wolff-Francis will be in poetic conversation with Ina Cariño and Len Lawson at 7 pm at The ArtsCenter (400 Roberson St. Carrboro, NC 27510).
On Saturday, Oct. 21, Ina will read work from their debut collection Feast at 4:30 pm the Carrboro Century Center (100 N. Greensboro St. Carrboro, NC 27510).
The University of Hawai’i Center for Philippine Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature, Whitenoise Project and the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu cordially invite you to “Absences and Ancestors: An Afternoon with VA Poet Laureate, Emerita Dr. Luisa A. Igloria” on October 7, Saturday, 3:00-5:00pm at Ka Waiwai.
Accompanying our distinguished guest’s reading are performances featuring poets Ina Cariño, Jake Eduardo Vermaas, musicians Ryan Mercado, Paul Gabriel Cosme and Niño Villacastin.
Ina Cariño, an alumnus of the MFA Program at NC State, will read original poetry in Caldwell Hall on Oct. 10, 2023 at 7 pm. Free event open to the public.
OBSERVABLE READINGS: SHELLEY WONG & INA CARIÑO
Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Observable series celebrates its 20th season!
The Observable series features local and national poets sharing recently published and new work. Originally started in 2003 by poet Aaron Belz, Observable is a key part of the St. Louis poetry landscape, presenting the liveliness and diversity of contemporary poetry.
Series Curators: Dana Levin
SHELLEY WONG & INA CARIÑO
Friday, April 14
7:00 p.m. (CDT) – In-person at High Low + Livestream Event
$5 | suggested donation
SHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco.
Enjoy the livestream here.
Everything All at Once: Readings & Conversation with Four Alice James Books Poets
Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
Friday, March 10, 2023
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Four principal poets debut new collections from Alice James Books and discuss the expansive nature of storytelling in poems. Expressing individuality via internal and external landscapes; disabling hierarchies; examining lineage and familial influences; and uncovering how personal and collective histories collapse—and inform and obscure our memories, languages, and selves—the poets communicate collective visions of our myriad borders and query origins with an approach akin to transillumination. This event will be livestreamed. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
Panelists:
Joseph O. Legaspi (moderator) is the author of the collections Threshold and Imago, and the chapbooks Postcards, Aviary, Bestiary, and Subways. Recent works appeared in Poetry, New England Review, World Literature Today, and Best of the Net. A former Fulbright fellow, he cofounded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org).
Ina Cariño
Aldo Amparán
J. Estanislao Lopez
Janine Joseph
2022
SOUTHEAST ASIAN POET PANEL WITH ERIC TRAN AT UNC CHAPEL HILL’S ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER
April 22, 2022, 12-2 PM.
“In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, The Carolina Asia Center, Southeast Asian Approaches Carolina Seminar & UNC Asian American Center welcome NC poets Ina Cariño and Eric Tran to do a reading of their selected poetry and host a question and answer session. This event will be moderated by Trisha Remetir, a graduate student in the English and Comparative Literature Department.”
On April 6, the Whiting Foundation announced Ina as one of the winners of the annual Whiting Awards for 2022.
From the selection committee:
“The title of Ina Cariño’s debut poetry collection is Feast, and it is both evocation and instruction. Rich with ravishing imagery of flesh, sustenance, blood, rites of passage, and the ache of memory, these multilingual poems are both caressing and defiant. She reminds us that what tethers can also sever. Her work thrums with an ancient power like spells, or food-memories, placing the reader in a fever dream of observation and sensation.”
Advance praise for Feast:
"‘To be other is to read badly- / drawn maps,’ writes Ina Cariño, ‘to hum / with a revolutionary's love song.’ I love the vividness of these poems, the language of the senses that's so alive on each page of Feast. But these poems aren't just beautiful, sensual lyrics. There is more at stake here. Cariño is a kind of poet who claims family and identity with style that's akin to spell-making. ‘I dream in a tongue not my own’ the poet says—and we see it instantly: Here, even a simple act of cooking rice can become a ceremony, a rhapsody of liberation. All of this is done not with literary pretension but with vulnerability and honesty. If Ina Cariño says ‘names are spells,’ it is because this poet aims to write actual spells, and not just with the pen, but with breath: ‘I am the last spell, the only song left. deliberate utterance of bone’. Here, we are in presence of something special, I think. Bravo.”
— Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa
Click here for the full list of winners. Click here to preorder Feast from Alice James Books.
2021
FEATURED GUEST AT LOLA’S OPEN MIC HOSTED BY NCSU FASA
Thursday, Oct. 7, 6-8 pm at Hunt Library at NC State. Click for event info.
INA CARIÑO, RILEY RATCLIFF, AND CYANOTYPE AT THE OCTOPOD
Poetry + music outdoors @ the Octopod. Saturday, July 17, 8 pm. Click for event info.
92Y DISCOVERY POETRY CONTEST: THE JOAN LEIMAN JACOBSON POETRY PRIZES
The winners of this year's contest are Kenzie Allen, Ina Cariño, Mag Gabbert and Alexandra Zukerman. Each one receives a reading at 92Y, publication in The Paris Review Daily, a stay at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan and $500.
WRITERS ON THE RISE, HOSTED BY THE VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, SPONSORED BY THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION
Writers on the Rise is a spotlight reading series designed to uplift and amplify the diverse talent of a wide range of voices and creative visions.
Thursday, April 29, 7 pm ET. Register here for this event. A private Zoom link will be provided.
APIDArtists PANEL - NCSU
March 19, 2021, 7 pm
“Art and media have always been people’s way of escaping the harsh reality of life; however, some artists choose to use their art and their platforms to advocate and inspire during troubling times. Come join us on MARCH 19th, 7PM as we hold an intimate conversation with local APIDA creators about the meaning of their art, how their identity plays a role in creation, and what an audience should be aware of in their artforms. We will be welcoming poet Ina Cariño and podcasters/creators Kavya Kumar and Pooja Lenin to discuss some pressing questions about creators from a creator’s perspective.”
WORDS AS SYMBOLS, WORDS AS SPELLS - WORKSHOP WITH THE NC WRITERS’ NETWORK
March 11, 2021, 7 pm
2021 ALICE JAMES AWARD
From the statement from Alice James:
“Ina Cariño is Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award.
“We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award is Ina Cariño of Raleigh, NC for their manuscript, FEAST. They will receive $2,000 and their collection will be published in March 2023.”
2020
POWER TO THE POET, HOSTED BY NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER (NCAAT)
Live virtual reading: November 20th at 7 pm. Power to the Poet was a virtual poetry reading highlighting a panel of local BIPOC poets.
POETS RISE
Celebrate Women's Equality Day, with poetry! Wednesday, August 26, 2020, at 10:15 am to11:15 am PDT / 1:15 pm-2:15 pm EDT, featuring Grand Slam Champion & East Palo Alto native SevanKelee Boult, Indigena Collective founder Ina Cariño, U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Meera Dasgupta, Philadelphia vocussionist Bethlehem Roberson, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Still Breathing Movement Inc CEO & poet Tynea Smith, and acclaimed poet & 2020 Community Builder Awardee Angelique N. Zobitz, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto.
Register here.
THE WEEKLY BOP (BITS OF POETRY)
Hosted by Nish Ahmed on Instagram Live (@theweeklybop).
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 7:30 PM CST/8:30 PM EST.
POWER TO THE POETS: Poets of Color for Change
June 11, 2020, 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST
Via Facebook Live (this event will appear as a post on this page, under the DISCUSSION tab). Watch the full recording here.
Hosts: Aileen Cassinetto (San Mateo) & Raymond Tyler (Atlantic City)
2019
INDIGENA COLLECTIVE
In December of 2019, Ina started the Indigena Collective—a new community reading series and project centering marginalized creatives.
POETRY READING: CARIÑO, DENTZ, HARRISON, LUCYSHYN, AND TEDESCO
Hosted by So & So Books, 704 N Person St, Raleigh, NC 27604.
Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 7 PM EST.
Readers: Ina Cariño, Shira Dentz, Aimee Harrison. Richard Lucyshyn, Adam Tedesco
2019 KUNDIMAN RETREAT
In June, Ina attended the Kundiman summer retreat in New York City. Kundiman is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature.
2018
LITTLE CORNER READING SERIES, DEC. 1, 2018
“EXCESS WOMEN”
On Saturday Dec. 1, 2019, Ina read at Duke Coffeehouse in Durham, NC with Dorothea Lasky and Jessica Q. Stark as part of the Little Corner Reading Series.
See article in Indy Week here.
CREATE, or DIE. HOPSCOTCH DAY PRINT PARTY, SEPT. 7, 2018, 4 PM, WICKED WITCH RALEIGH
CREATE, or DIE. is a tri-city traveling print party showcasing art projects that enabled a path of expressive mental and social healing for the creator under moments of life where there was nothing to lose but to create. Ticket buyers and at the door participants will get the opportunity to join this process by live printing your own poster, designed by the organizers! Our goal is to empower others to create and express themselves by whatever means necessary, and support the causes in their cities that are enabling this process