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Vickie Vértiz

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Category: Events

AWP 2021 in San Antonio: events!

Join Vickie in San Antonio at these events! Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6pm to 7:30 pm, One Poem Festival Reading: … More

AWP, AWP2020, Canto Mundo, Chicana poetry, Chicana writers, dignidad literaria, kidlit, Latinx poetry, Letras Latinas, Macondo, own voices, queer poetry, San Antonio

Vickie in New York (and Vermont)!

Chicana, femme, Latinos in Los Angeles, los angeles, New York City, palm frond, poetry readings, QTPOC, queer, queer Latinas, vermont, writing workshops

To Collage, To Carry: A Fragmented Essay Writing Workshop, Sat. 8/24, NYC

To Collage, To Carry: A Fragmented Essay Writing Workshop, Sat. 8/24, 10am-12pm ACE Hotel, $40 per person, limited full scholarships … More

Asian American writers, essayists, femme, femme writers, New York City, writers, writing workshop, writing workshops

AWP 2019– Portland

Join Vickie for a book signing and cumbia dance party pop-up with poet Heidi Restrepo Rhodes, author of The Inheritance of … More

AWP, AWP2019, Latinx poetry, poetry

South East Los Angeles River Arts Festival, July 21, 2018

          Photo: Kency Cornejo After dozens of amazing artists had performed, and following LA bands Quetzal … More

#LApoetry #LAliterature #LAart, #SouthEastLosAngeles #LosAngelesRiver #ArtsFestival

Hybrid reading/lecture at RaceCraft: A Symposium, Thursday, October 20

RaceCraft: A Symposium: A[…]* genealogy to the contemporary craft movement Barbara And Art Culver Center Of Arts, 3834 Main St., Riverside, … More

Aram Han Sifuentes, ArtsBlock, Bovey Lee, Clare Counihan, Culver Art Center, DIY, Jan Christian Bernabe, Marie Lo, Media and cultural studies, Racecraft, Sarita See, UC Riverside, urban gardening

Macondo Writers’ Workshop 2016– open mic recordings

Thanks to Joseph Rios, here is a sample of the open mic at Macondo Writers’ Workshop 2016 in San Antonio. … More

Alex Espinoza, Joe Jimenez, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Macondo, Macondo 2016, Macondo Writers Workshop, San Antonio, Sandra Cisneros, Tim Z. Hernandez, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Allendale Library Reading, Dec. 5, 4-6pm

F. Douglas Brown, family friendly, free event December 5 in LA, Jessica Ceballos, los angeles, Pasadena, poetry readings, poetry readings in LA, public libraries, Vickie Vertiz

El Monte Forever: A Brief History of Michael Jaime-Becerra

As the third installment of  the  Tropics of Meta series, East of East: Mapping Community Narratives in South El Monte and El … More

Chicano authors, Chicano literature, El Monte, Latino authors, Latino writers, los angeles, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Michael Jayme, SEMAP, Tropics of Meta, UC Riverside, UCR, Vickie Vertiz

ROAR SHACK- It Takes a Year

Vickie will join the Roar Shack Reading Series in July for their Live Write! Live Writing is a thrilling feat … More

826LA, Amy Boutell, Brittany Michelson, Caitlin Myer, David Rocklin, reading series, Roar Shack, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Zoe Ruiz

Vértiz Featured on KCET’s Departures

As part of the reading series “LAnguage” at the Last Bookstore hosted by Mike the PoeT Sonkensen, Vickie Vértiz was … More

Armond Kinard, Gloria Alvarez, Jaz James, Joe Gardner, Juan Felipe Herrera, KCET Departures, Kenji Liu, LAnguage, los angeles, Michael Ford, Mike the Poet, Rachelle Cruz, swallows, the Last Bookstore, Vickie Vertiz, Zoe Ruiz

Riverside Youth Opportunity Center Open Mic

Join me as I host the Youth Opportunity Center Open Mic this Friday, December 7, 4-6 PM. Come witness the … More

open mic, poetry, Riverside poetry, Riverside readings, youth, Youth Opportunity Center

Recent writing, news, and posts

  • LA Times Story: Avenue 50 and other Eastside havens from gentrification
  • Every Day We Get More Illegal: City Lights Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera
  • KCET Artbound: L.A. Residents Push for More Inclusion in Gehry-Designed Arts Center
  • KCET’s Artbound: In Bell Gardens, American Legion Hall Post #465 Is an Unlikely Musical Mecca
  • April 2021 Readings
  • Virtual AWP 2021 panel, “The Woven Verse: An Exploration of the Latinx Verse Novel in Kidlit”
  • Toyoteria: Jaime Muñoz’s Apparitions of Faith
  • On family violence and waiting for the Big One
  • “1989 Caprice Classic,” a poem
  • KCET Story: Third-annual Southeast L.A. River Arts Festival held entirely online
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