Tag: Latino poetry

Auto/Body out for a spin: April 2024 Events

I’m taking my new-ish book, Auto/Body out for a spin! The book had its one-year birthday last month, so help me celebrate and say hello.

  • Thurs., 4/18/24 “Mommy’s El Camino” with Wendy Ortiz and Jessica Ceballos y Campbell.

Register for Wendy Ortiz’s amazing new project, “Mommy’s El Camino,” complete with interviews and writing advice to get the Zoom link for our talk: https://buttondown.email/wendycortiz

  • Syracuse University: “Cruel April”: Vickie Vértiz

Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 3 – 4:00pm PST. Click below to register and attend

https://calendar.syracuse.edu/events/2024-apr-25/cruel-april-vickie-vertiz/
I’ll be reading and sharing new poems from my future collection!

  • New anthology: Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis. I have new work in this wonderful book, detailing Chicana literary badassery. Get your copy from U of AZ Press below:
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento
  • BAY AREA! I’ll be reading in San Francisco at NACCS from this book along with Maya Chinchilla, Nadia Zepeda, and Fe Montes on Thurs., April 25th. Join the Chicanada or text me to meet up! https://www.naccs.org/naccs/General_Info.asp

Get a copy of Auto/body below or at a bookstore near you!

Book Details

The Offing: Dr. Ashaki Jackson talks with Vickie Vértiz about Auto/Body

Vickie talked to fellow poet Dr. Ashaki Jackson about the origins and poems from Auto/Body (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023).

From the Youtube Offing channel text: “The Offing previously published her essay, “Kissing.” Publisher Ashaki M. Jackson conducted the Q&A. Our Patreon supporters received exclusive access to the video interview with The Offing contributor Vickie Vértiz and receive other perks as well. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all of our supporters in sustaining our work.”

Donate to The Offing journal here! https://www.patreon.com/theoffing

Yesika Salgado and I chop it up: video from 2019 LitLit Conference: Latinx/L.A. Poetics

That time when Yesika Salgado and I read two poems and talked: about how we became writers, who we’re in conversation with, and who we wish to become, and what L.A. means to us.

Shout out to the 2019 LitLit Conference sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks again to Kyle Fitzpatrick for organizing our panel!

Southeast Los Angeles writing featured at AWP 2016

 

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The 710, Long Beach Freeway runs through Bell Gardens and dozens of southeast cities in LA county. (Photo: Hal Link, 1970, City of Bell Gardens Archive)

Join me as I moderate two panels at the #AWP16 writers’ conference happening in LA this year! Latinx writers from all over the southland will share our prose and poetry on the following panels, THURSDAY, March 31, 2016:

Panel R225. From New Wave and Punk: Musical influences on Latino Literary Aesthetics.  

1:30 pm to 2:45 pm, Room 505, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level

 With special guest Michelle Gonzales from SpitBoy, Daniel Chacon, Carribean Fragoza, musicologist Marlen Rios, and Vickie Vertiz.

From all corners of Los Angeles and across this country, punk and New Wave music have influenced Latino writers for decades. This multigenre panel is equal parts reading, discussion, and listening party. Through poems, essays, and stories, the panelists highlight how, as listeners, they blend literary aesthetics with New Wave and punk sounds to tell new stories.

3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

Room 410, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level

Panel R252. Mistaking Planes for Stars: Los Angeles Writing from Freeways to Flight Paths.  

 With Vickie Vertiz,  Aida Salazar ,  Steve Gutierrez,  and Melinda Palacio.

From Bukowski to Viramontes, working-class writing in Los Angeles is a longstanding tradition. Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the county, bringing avant-garde aesthetics to literature. However, many of our stories have yet to be told. This reading highlights cutting edge poetry, story, and performance by working-class and queer Latinos from a little-known part of Los Angeles: the southeast. From railroad yards to factory floors, writers share their work of grit and heart.

See you there!