Read the poem and listen to the author reading it, here!
Tues., Oct. 17, 2023
From October’s Poem-a-Day curator, #VanessaAngelicaVillarreal:
“I’m so proud that @vickievertiz brought conjunto, a subaltern Tex-Mex music popular in the RGV, with all its botas and accordions, to contribute to the Academy of American poets archive. That is the importance of her work—as record of working class Chicanx life, beauty, language. […] her poems are odes to us, animated with the surfaces of our neighborhoods, populated with our voices, not working, not migrating, but at a party.”
Gracias, Vanessa and thank you Academy of American Poets!
https://poets.org/poem/under-spell-conjunto
