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Vickie Vértiz

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Tag: City of Commerce

“1989 Caprice Classic,” a poem

“Is it talking dirty if you’re just listening? What you see in the picture is me. Passenger Front seat. Cinder … More

Bell Gardens, BOOM, BOOM California magazine, Carribean Fragoza, City of Commerce, Fernando Mendez Corona, queer Chicanas, queer Latinas, queer poetry, queer writing, Romeo Guzman

“Faking Business,” a new story up at the JFR

What happens when your arch nemesis shows up at a random Commerce quinceañera in the same Payless platforms? Find out here at … More

City of Commerce, Kamala Puligandla, Latinos, Payless shoes, quinceañeras, Sergio's Tacos, southeast LA, teenagers, The James Franco Review, Vickie Vertiz, young adult fiction

A Man in His Backyard: sightseeing in City of Commerce with author Stephen Gutierrez

Read Vertiz’s new essay on KCET: “A Man in His Backyard: sightseeing in the City of Commerce with author Stephen … More

City of Commerce, KCET Departures, Southeast Los Angeles, Steve Gutierrez, the 710 freeway, the CItadel, the Five Freeway, Vickie Vertiz

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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