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Christine Imperial + Lara Mimosa Montes

Kate Rhoades, "Chicken Women"
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Small Press Traffic presents an evening with Christine Imperial and Lara Mimosa Montes, two writers whose books challenge allegiances of form and language. Confronting fantasies of interiority within colonial genres, their writing asks: What fictions do we enter, and how — when the self is already mistaken, translated, in detour?

Mimosa Montes’s The Time of the Novel (Wendy’s Subway, 2025) and Imperial’s Mistaken for Empire: A Memoir in Tongues (Mad Creek Book's Gournay Prize, 2023) will be sold on a sliding scale.

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Arrive early to check out Et al.’s incredible shows, up now: Hermana / Hermano / Hermanx, organized by Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa and Victor Saucedo, and a solo exhibition by Kate Rhoades, The Chicken Bit the Dust.

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WHEN
Saturday, December 6 | Doors at 6:30 PM, Reading at 7 PM
Saturday, December 6, 2025
7:00 pm

WHERE

Et al.
2831a Mission St, SF

NOTES ON ACCESsIBILITY

Et al.'s exhibition spaces are on the ground floor; the entrance and bathrooms are wheelchair-accessible.

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Lara Mimosa Montes

Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of The Time of the Novel, now available from Wendy's Subway, in addition to two previous books of poetry. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, POETRY, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere. She teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. Read more: laramimosa.info

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Photo credit: Anna Robertson

Christine Imperial

Christine is a poet and writer based in Oakland. She is currently a Cultural Studies PhD student at UC Davis where she was awarded the Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Their first book Mistaken for an Empire was published as Mad Creek Book's Gournay Prize winner in 2023. Her work has recently been published or is forthcoming in FENCE, Meniscus, and The Kenyon Review.

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