May 1 — Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) — Celebrate the release of Red Like Earth with us!

 Red Like Earth is a collection of poems that centers around the color red and the three main emotions Aguilar associates with it: love, anger, and their Indigenous identity. Red is passion. Red is history. Red is the color of homelands and skin. Red Like Earth is a raw and real look at poetry through a lens of reclamation of the heart, the body, and the land. Solange Aguilar moves us through a collection of poems that seek to paint the complexity of identity, culture and land politics, and love in the colors, tastes, and memories of being a body in a tender yet breaking world.

Solange Aguilar (They/Ze) is an award-winning queer Mescalero Apache, Yo’eme, and Filipinx (Kapampángan) multimedia artist, poet, zinemaker, and author of Red Like Earth. They are a 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize winner with Write Bloody Publishing, a co-winner of the Corazón de Oro from Raíces for my work on the Mispu Story Signs at Santa Barbara City College, and a first place winner in the Santa Barbara Poetry Slam. They’re also a recipient of The Pachamama Skillshare and Women’s Creative Collective for Change artist scholarship and a 2021 fellow from the Artist2Artist program by the Art Matters Foundation. Their work has been featured in News from Native California, Earth First! Journal, at The Getty, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and in Harvard Library’s zine collection.