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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Vértiz Featured on KCET’s Departures

As part of the reading series “LAnguage” at the Last Bookstore hosted by Mike the PoeT Sonkensen, Vickie Vértiz was … More

Armond Kinard, Gloria Alvarez, Jaz James, Joe Gardner, Juan Felipe Herrera, KCET Departures, Kenji Liu, LAnguage, los angeles, Michael Ford, Mike the Poet, Rachelle Cruz, swallows, the Last Bookstore, Vickie Vertiz, Zoe Ruiz

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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