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Vickie Vértiz

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Tag: Maya Chinchilla

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

The Next Big Thing- Swallows

First I’d like to thank Arisa White for inviting me to be a part of The Next Big Thing, a … More

Aimee Suzara, Carmen Gimenez-Smith, chapbook, Cherrie Moraga, collection, Finishing Line Press, Kenji Liu, Lisa Marie Rollins, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Maya Chinchilla, nonfiction, poetry, Rachelle Cruz, Ruth Forman, Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood, swallows, The Blood Jet, The Next Big Thing, UC Riverside, Vickie Vertiz, VONA, Willie Perdomo

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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