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Vickie Vértiz

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Category: Writing

Every Day We Get More Illegal: City Lights Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera

In the summer of 2021, I interviewed Juan Felipe Herrera AKA the US Poet Laureate from 2015-17, AKA barrio forest … More

friendship, New York City, trip

KCET Story: Third-annual Southeast L.A. River Arts Festival held entirely online

Where else are you going to see a Latinx Bob Ross in huaraches this weekend? And naturally, Beto RosSela (see … More

art, Art Walks, Bell, Bell Gardens, California, Chicas Rockeras Southeast LA, Cudahy, DIY, Downey, entrepreneurship, home, Huntington Park, Los Angeles artists, los angeles dance, Los Angeles writing, Lynwood, Paramount, South Gate, southeast LA, Southeast Los Angeles, women, writing

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

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

Entropy–adding to an epic poem with epic girl drama

“Susi stopped being my best friend once she got bangs and a hickey. Because I’ve heard her say it, I … More

Bell Gardens, Birdwolf XXX, Chicana, Entropy, immigrants, los angeles, middle school, poetry, Southeast Los Angeles, Vickie Vertiz, white jeans

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

An Excerpt from the new collection, Swallows

Tocaya There’s an i and an e at the end of my name Mom and Dad did not pick the … More

Chicana, Chicano, family, sisters, swallows, tocaya

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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