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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Tag: youth programs

Worth Gold: Feminism and Leadership at the Miss Bell Gardens Pageant

Bell Gardens City Council members with the 2015 Miss Bell Gardens Court. Photo: City of Bell Gardens “All the court … More

710 freeway, Bell Gardens, Bell Gardens CIty Council, Bell Gardens High School, Bell Gardens mayor, Bell Gardens Youth, City of Bell Gardens, KCET, KCET Departures, los angeles, Los Angeles Latinos, Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, Miss Bell Gardens, Miss Bell Gardens Court 2015, Miss Bell Gardens Pageant 2015, the 710 Corridor Project, youth programs

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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