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Vickie Vértiz

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Tag: Latinx poetry

AWP 2021 in San Antonio: events!

Join Vickie in San Antonio at these events! Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6pm to 7:30 pm, One Poem Festival Reading: … More

AWP, AWP2020, Canto Mundo, Chicana poetry, Chicana writers, dignidad literaria, kidlit, Latinx poetry, Letras Latinas, Macondo, own voices, queer poetry, San Antonio

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 … More

Bell Gardens, Corazon, diverse literature, L.A. poetics, Latina feminists, Latino poetry, Latinx poetry, LitLit 2019, los angeles, Los Angeles writing, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, Yesika Salgado

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

Recent writing, news, and posts

  • 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
  • Teaching online? Don’t panic. Seriously.
  • AWP 2021 in San Antonio: events!
  • Yesika Salgado and I chop it up: video from 2019 LitLit Conference: Latinx/L.A. Poetics
  • Vickie in New York (and Vermont)!
  • To Collage, To Carry: A Fragmented Essay Writing Workshop, Sat. 8/24, NYC
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