& Also With You
& Also With You
Alyshia Tuyet Gonzalez dives into the link between music and poetry in her debut chapbook “& Also With You”, a multimedia exploration of love, lust, & heartbreak. She turns poetry on its head by curating an experience where words come alive, paving a new way for feeling to be more than flat text on a page.
About the Author
Alyshia Tuyet Gonzalez is a Mexican-Vietnamese NYC-based poet from Los Angeles. Alyshia is a first-generation college graduate with her B.A. in Ethnicity, Race, and First Nations and her M.A. in Sociology. Her expertise lies in critical race theory, abolitionist societal formation, and diversion advocacy, focusing on reducing the suspension, expulsion, and arrest of Black and brown students and ending the U.S. drug war. Alyshia believes in the power of principled struggle and ensures that a racial and transformative justice lens informs all of her work.
While never formally trained in poetry, she's been writing since she was 12 years old. She began her performance poetry career at ASU, where she won first place at the annual poetry slam. Since then, she has been invited to perform at Ray of Hope Walk LA and been a guest teaching artist for Compton School District and Broadway for Arts Education serving students in South Central LA & the South Bronx. Alyshia is a proud alumni of the Spoken Lit LA Poetry Intensive. Her work has been featured in the SJSA Voices of Change Gallery Guide, and she recently published her first chapbook on love titled " & Also With You"
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