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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

  • 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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