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Vickie Vértiz

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Tag: UC Riverside

Hybrid reading/lecture at RaceCraft: A Symposium, Thursday, October 20

RaceCraft: A Symposium: A[…]* genealogy to the contemporary craft movement Barbara And Art Culver Center Of Arts, 3834 Main St., Riverside, … More

Aram Han Sifuentes, ArtsBlock, Bovey Lee, Clare Counihan, Culver Art Center, DIY, Jan Christian Bernabe, Marie Lo, Media and cultural studies, Racecraft, Sarita See, UC Riverside, urban gardening

El Monte Forever: A Brief History of Michael Jaime-Becerra

As the third installment of  the  Tropics of Meta series, East of East: Mapping Community Narratives in South El Monte and El … More

Chicano authors, Chicano literature, El Monte, Latino authors, Latino writers, los angeles, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Michael Jayme, SEMAP, Tropics of Meta, UC Riverside, UCR, Vickie Vertiz

Vertiz Hosts UC Riverside MFA Reading Series

Join Vickie Vertiz this school year as she hosts UC Riverside’s graduate student reading series. Come hear crisp stories, dangerous … More

Cal State San Bernardino, Cellar Door Books, Chad Sweeney, MFA reading series, reading, reading series, UC Riverside, UCR, Vickie Vertiz

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

  • 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 2020 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
  • Upcoming readings: April and May 2019
  • AWP 2019– Portland
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