INDIGENA COLLECTIVE is a reading series & platform for marginalized creatives in the community.
The Latin root word of “indigenous,” INDIGENA calls to mind not only the roots from which we ascend, but also the ways in which BIPOC, QTPOC, and people with disabilities, put down roots in the face of being constantly othered and denied existence.
What does it mean to come from somewhere else, to really come from somewhere else? And, in trying to find home, how does one navigate such an othered life?
Perhaps, through sharing our art, we can attempt to answer such questions. We encourage those who identify as part of a marginalized community, including but not limited to such groups as BIPOC, QTPOC, and people with disabilities, to be part of and enrich this collective.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Ina Cariño is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in the American Poetry Review, the Margins, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.