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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Tag: UCR

Poetry Center Award, Summer Residency at the University of Arizona, Tucson

Vickie is thrilled to have been selected by Natalie Diaz for the 2016 Summer Residency at the Poetry Center. Stay … More

Natalie Diaz, Poetry Center, Summer residency, UCR, University of Arizona Tucson, Vickie Vertiz

On KCET’s Departures, “Bell Gardens? That’s Indian town!”: 1980s Pow Wows and Cultural Persistence

My family has lived in Bell Gardens since 1976, but we never drove past a pow wow at a local … More

710 freeway, KCET Departures, KCET. Bell Gardens, Natalie Stites, Native Americans in Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles, UCR

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

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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