<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div align="center" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="5"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.soulbone.org/spring-2024">SOUL BONE℠ LITERARY FESTIVAL SPRING 2024</a>
</span></font></div><div class="moz-forward-container" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 36pt;">Love Poems to the Earth</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino;">On the Feast of St. Valentine, a group of poets will share their love poems to the Earth, the Great Mother, Madre Tierra, Tonantzin, Pachamama, life-giver and standard of all beauty, whom we have treated with such unkindness and abuse that in her high fever the glaciers melt, land goes dry, forests burn; and in her delirium, storms rage and rivers flood. Everyone is welcome and there will be time for questions and answers. We pray that we be ignited with the fierce love it will take for us to heal ourselves and our Mother.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino;"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">A St. Valentine’s Day Reading</span></b></div><br><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Rafael Jesús González, Naomi Quiñónez,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Arnoldo García, Mary Mackey, Nynke Passi</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Wednesday, February 14, 2024</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">7:30 – 9:30 PM CT</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">(5:30 – 7:30 PM PT)</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/801764287567?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);">Free Eventbrite registration here</span></a><br></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);"><br></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);"><br></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);"></span></b></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>