Shannon McCarville, the volunteer and events coordiantor at The Loft, sent me a CD with photos she took on May 31, at the second installment of
"The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry ON TOUR."
As a way of continuing to document and archive this Letras Latinas / Guild Complex initiative (with partial funding from The NALAC Fund for the Arts), I've made a selection of the photos below---perhaps in anticipation of our next stop: Richard Hugo House on September 25. The University of Arizona Press has recently updated the tour's web page to include biographical sketches of the Wind Shift poets slated to read in Seattle. Have a peek to see who they are. Thank you, Shannon, for sharing these photos:
"The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry ON TOUR."
As a way of continuing to document and archive this Letras Latinas / Guild Complex initiative (with partial funding from The NALAC Fund for the Arts), I've made a selection of the photos below---perhaps in anticipation of our next stop: Richard Hugo House on September 25. The University of Arizona Press has recently updated the tour's web page to include biographical sketches of the Wind Shift poets slated to read in Seattle. Have a peek to see who they are. Thank you, Shannon, for sharing these photos:
Carl Marcum
Carl Marcum
Emmy Pérez
Emmy Pérez
Urayoán Noel
Urayoán Noel
poets take questions@ Q & A
Carl Marcum, Francisco Aragón, Venessa Fuentes,Urayoán Noel, Emmy Pérez
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San Antonio has been a mainstay this summer: I had the immense fortune of participating in NALAC's 8th Annual Leadership Institute---a week-long training session for arts administrators working out of a Latino context. The highlights were many, including inspiring talks by Tomás Ybarra Frausto. The entire faculty, really, were extraordinary. But perhaps most meaningful was being in a room with people from all over the country who were also making a go at being cultural workers. The sense among us was, simply: we're not alone in the work we're trying to do. The comraderie by week's end was palpable.
Then it was off to Chicago to launch the tri-collaboration between The Guild Complex, the Cave Canem Foundation, and Letras Latinas.
And then back to San Antonio for Macondo.
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Finally, stay tuned: LETRAS LATINAS BLOG will be issuing a press release in about ten days to announce the winner of the third edition of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. The poet has been notified, but we are awaiting the final judge's award citation in order to include it in the announcement.
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