Briana Muñoz features at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry

Join Briana Muñoz as she features for Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at The Ugly Mug in Orange, CA with a reading from Matriarchy: Sacred Poems (El Martillo Press, 2025).

The Ugly Mug (open for the event)

261 N Glassell St, Orange, CA 92866 (NOT in Burbank!)

$5 cover fee, cash only

No outside food or drinks.

Ages 12+ unless otherwise specified

About the Author:

Briana Muñoz is a poet from Southern California. She is the author of Loose Lips (Prickly Pear Publishing, 2019) and Everything is Returned to the Soil (FlowerSong Press, 2021). Her work has been published in the anthologies: Somos Xicanas, Reimagine America, and Beat Not Beat, as well as on websites and in literary journals: Cultural Daily, The Oakland Arts Review, Dryland Literary Journal, Angel City Review, and several other publications. Briana is the founder of Poetry as Harm Reduction and currently serves as a member on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Poetry Society. She has performed poetry in places like the International Poetry Festival of Havana, Cuba, the 2015 Festival de Poesia in Tijuana, Baja California, MX, as well as at the XXI Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispanicos in Quito, Ecuador. She currently lives in Southern California with her partner and child.

About the Book:

“A flame burns at the core of Briana Muñoz’s Matriarchy that both illuminates and razes social monstrosities. Fire is reignited as ceremonial copal, fire-keepers, wildfire, firewood, fire dance, Israeli fire, and more, in the context of eternal nature, our common lived experience, and the dying structures of the Patriarchy. You will find words in these poems that consume, transform, and regenerate in crisis and creation. It is an offering for our time and the future.”

—Michael Warr, 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee and poetry editor of the anthology Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)

Two Idiots Peddling Poetry:

Two Idiots Peddling Poetry is a weekly poetry reading held at the Ugly Mug Café in Orange, California on Wednesdays at 8 pm. There is a cover charge (cash only, see event pages for more info). The reading generally has one or two featured poets reading for 20-30 minutes each, plus an open mic.

El Martillo Press:

Founded by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo Press proactively publishes writers looking to pound the pavement to promote their work and the work of their fellow pressmates. El Martillo is the builder of bridges and the destroyer of walls.