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Vickie Vértiz

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Category: Readings

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

From the Stacks at the Poetry Center

      Everyone should visit the generous, lovely staff at the University of Arizona, Tucson’s Poetry Center. A tremendous … More

Hannah Ensor, Poetry Center, Tyler Meier, University of Arizona Tucson, Wendy Burk

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

Southeast Los Angeles writing featured at AWP 2016

  Join me as I moderate two panels at the #AWP16 writers’ conference happening in LA this year! Latinx writers … More

AWP16, AWP2016, AWPLA, Chicana writers, Chicano writers, Latino fiction, Latino music, Latino poetry, Latino writers, Latinos and New Wave, Los Angeles writers, Punk and Latinos, punk queer Chicana

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

Vertiz Hosts UC Riverside MFA Reading Series

Join Vickie Vertiz this school year as she hosts UC Riverside’s graduate student reading series. Come hear crisp stories, dangerous … More

Cal State San Bernardino, Cellar Door Books, Chad Sweeney, MFA reading series, reading, reading series, 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

Swallows Book Release Parties, Bay Area, June 7-9th

Come celebrate the official release of Swallows, my poetry collection just out from Finishing Line Press. Friday, June 7th ScholarMatch … More

Aimee Suzara, book release party, carne asada, Chicana, Chicano, daughters, Emilie Coulson, family, immigrants, Kenji Liu, Legg Lake, los angeles, Maya Chinchilla, McSweeney's, Pinay Poet, poetry, South El Monte Arts Posse, swallows, Vickie Vertiz, writing

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

KPFA with Luis Rodriguez and Ching-In Chen, Tuesday, February 11, 2013

Tune in to KPFA 94.1 FM, the Bay Area’s Pacifica station, next Tuesday for “Pinay Poet on Setting the Standard.” … More

Aimee Suzara, Ching-in Chen, KPFA, Lee Herrick, Luis Rodriguez, Pacifica, Pinay Poet, poetry, swallows

Reading at Skylight Books, Thursday, Feb. 21, 7:30pm

Join Vickie as she reads from her new book Swallows at Rainbow Gathering 4. It’s the fourth installment of UC … More

Recent writing, news, and posts

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  • 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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