Latina/o Studies
Association (LSA)
&
Letras Latinas
are pleased to present
POETRY en LA PLAZA
@
“LATINX STUDIES NOW”
Latina/o Studies
Association Conference
Washington Marriott
Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, D.C.
July 11-15, 2018
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Thursday, July 12 @ 4 PM
QUIQUE AVILÉS
LETICIA HERNÁNDEZ-LINARES
ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADO
Quique Avilés has
been writing, performing, and leading community arts projects since coming to
the U.S. in 1980. A graduate of The Duke Ellington School of the Arts, he
co-founded the LatiNegro Theater Collective (1985) and Sol & Soul: Art and
Activism (2000). His poetry has been featured on NPR, and several anthologies,
including How I Learned English and Al Pie de la Casa Blanca. The Immigrant Museum, his first book of
poetry, was printed in Mexico City in 2004. He has written and performed over
10 one-man shows dealing with issues of race and identity, including Latinhood,
Chaos Standing, and Los Treinta. He has brought this work to theaters,
universities, and community centers around the U.S., Mexico City, and El
Salvador. In addition to his solo work, he was the founder and is the current
director of Paso Nuevo, GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Youth Theater Program.
photo credit: currently unavailable
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Alexandra Lytton Regalado’s
poetry collection, Matria, (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) is the winner of
the St. Lawrence Book Prize. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared
or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2018, Creative Nonfiction,
Gulf Coast, Narrative, Notre Dame Review, OCHO, Puerto del Sol and
elsewhere. She is co-director of Kalina press and is author, editor, and/or
translator of more than ten books about Central America, most recently, Puntos
de fuga / Vanishing Points, a bilingual anthology of contemporary
Salvadoran prose. For more info visit her website at www.alexandralyttonregalado.com
photo credit: Tomás
Regalado
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Leticia Hernández-Linares is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and
educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl, and
co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United
States. Widely published, her work appears in collections and
journals such as U.S. Latino Literature Today, Street Art San Francisco, Teatro bajo del Sol, Huizache, and Pilgrimage. She has performed her poemsongs throughout the country and in El
Salvador. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual
Artist grantee, she teaches in Latina, Latino Studies at San Francisco State
University. Visit her: joinleticia.com
photo credit: Michelle
Gutierrez
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Friday, July 13 @ 4 PM
BLAS
FALCONER
MANUEL
PAUL LÓPEZ
VANESSA ANGÉLICA VILLARREAL
Blas Falconer
is the author of two poetry collections, The Foundling Wheel and A
Question of Gravity and Light, and a coeditor of two essay
collections, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity and Mentor
and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. His awards include an NEA Fellowship,
the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange, and a Tennessee Individual Artist
Grant. He is the poetry editor for The Los Angeles Review and
teaches in the low-residency MFA at Murray State University. His third
full-length poetry collection, Forgive the Body This Failure (Four
Way Books), is forthcoming in 2018.
photo credit: Emily Petrie
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Manuel Paul López’s
books and chapbook include These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, Akrilica
Series 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013),
1984 (Amsterdam Press, 2010) and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He
co-edited Reclaiming Our Stories: Narratives of
Identity, Resilience, and Empowerment (City Works Press, 2016). A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Huizache, Puerto del Sol,
and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego
and teaches at San Diego City College where he also co-coordinates City
College’s Puente Program.
photo credit: Mireya
Rodríguez
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley borderlands
to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the
collection Beast Meridian (Noemi
Press, AKRILICA Series), winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First
Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, and featured as a Best of
2017 book at The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, BOMB, Literary Hub, and
elsewhere. Her work has appeared in The
Rumpus, The Boston Review, The
Academy of American Poets, Buzzfeed, and she is a CantoMundo Fellow currently
pursuing her doctorate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
photo credit: Vanessa
Angélica Villarreal
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Saturday, July 14 @ 4
PM
NAOMI
AYALA
URAYOÁN
NOEL
JOSHUA ESCOBAR
(aka DJ ASHTRAE)
Naomi Ayala
is the author of three books of poetry—Wild Animals on the Moon
(Curbstone Press), This Side of Early (Curbstone Imprint: Northwestern
University Press), and Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations
(Bilingual Press). A teacher and freelance writer/editor, translations of her
poetry have been published in Afghanistan and Switzerland. Naomi’s own
translation of Argentinean poet Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s book of poetry, The
Wind’s Archeology/La arqueología del viento (Vaso Roto Ediciones, Mexico),
won her the 2013 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book
Translation. Some of Naomi’s work in Spanish appears in Al pie de la Casa
Blanca: Poetas hispanos de Washington, DC (North American Academy of
the Spanish Language). Among Naomi’s awards are several Artists Fellowships
from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Special Recognition for
Community Service from the U.S. Congress, and the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Legacy of Environmental Justice Award. She lives in Washington, DC.
photo credit: Erica Sánchez Vazquez
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Urayoán
Noel
is an Associate Professor of English and Spanish at NYU, and also teaches at
the MFA of the Americas at Stetson University. His books include, most
recently, the poetry collection Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico
(Arizona) and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from
the Sixties to Slam (Iowa). He is currently completing a book based on his
improvisational poetry vlog (www.wokitokiteki.com) as well as
two translation projects: a bilingual edition of the Chilean poet Pablo de
Rokha, Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry, forthcoming from
Shearsman Books, and a chapbook by Garifuna Guatemalan poet Wingston González, for Ugly Duckling Presse.
Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel lives in the South
Bronx.
photo
credit: Rusty Ritek
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Joshua Escobar
a.k.a. DJ Ashtrae makes poetry into
a kind of music. He mixes family drama with travelogues, interviews about the
HIV epidemic with biographies of Mexican immigrants, the lyrical with the
actual, English with Spanish. He is the author of Caljforkya Voltage (No,
Dear/Small Anchor Press) and XXOX FM (DoubleCross Press,
2019). Bareback Nightfall, his first full-length work, will be
published in 2020 by Noemi Press, as part of the AKRILICA series, a
co-publishing venture with Letras Latinas. He is a CantoMundo Fellow. He
publishes the zine, Orange Mercury, and lives with lil’ piñata
in San Bernardino, California.
photo credit: Joshua Escobar
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