Join us for our virtual Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead SF - Festival of the Altars in which we offer a collaborative ritual with poetry, music, dance, and altar installations. While the holiday is rooted in Mesoamérican spiritual traditions, we hold at the heart of our event that the circle of life and death, unites us all.

In this presentation, I read a section of my poem, “Air, Born,” in honor of the East altar, calling the element of air. The East altar is dedicated to our ancestral children, the interconnectedness of life and death, and all things seen and unseen. The East is also the direction of our first sunlight, voice, and new beginnings.