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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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  • Swallows: a chapbook

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New on KCET, Youth Resistance and Los Angeles Photography

From my latest article on Artbound KCET: “The week of November 14, 2016, nearly 4,000 students from about 18 schools … More

Chicana/o Movement, Chicano Movement, Chicanx, civil unrest, demonstrations, East Los Angeles, immigration, KCET, KCET Artbound, Latinos, Latinx, los angeles, protests, Rafael Cardenas, riots, student demonstrations, Tim Toyama, Vincent Price Art Museum, walkouts, Xela de la X

Cha Cha Nail Covers Take Over the World

This story is part of KCET Departures’ series of articles and essays on the Informal Economies of L.A. and how … More

Ana Guajardo, Artistas y Empresarios, AyE, Boyle Heights, Cha Cha Covers, Cha Cha Nail Covers, Chicana art, Chicana businesses, Chicana craft, City Lab, Good Mexican Girl, Latina businesses, Latina entrepreneurs, los angeles, LURN, mercados de Los Angeles, reina prado, Vickie Vertiz

The Next Big Thing- Swallows

First I’d like to thank Arisa White for inviting me to be a part of The Next Big Thing, a … More

Aimee Suzara, Carmen Gimenez-Smith, chapbook, Cherrie Moraga, collection, Finishing Line Press, Kenji Liu, Lisa Marie Rollins, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Maya Chinchilla, nonfiction, poetry, Rachelle Cruz, Ruth Forman, Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood, swallows, The Blood Jet, The Next Big Thing, UC Riverside, Vickie Vertiz, VONA, Willie Perdomo

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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