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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Tag: working-class

How Bell Gardens is Banking on Bicycle Club Casino’s Luxury Hotel

The sign illuminates eight lanes of the neighboring 710 Freeway. In contrast to the new monument to luxury, the gritty … More

Bell Gardens, California, Communities for a Better Environment, environment, environmental justice, environmental racism, Exide, Gov.Brown, Governor Jerry Brown, immigrants, KCET, KCET Departures, Latino immigrants, Latinos, los angeles, pollution, South east LA, South Gate, southeast LA, Southeast Los Angeles, Vernon, Vickie Vertiz, working families, working-class

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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