R210. Literary Changemakers: Representation & Visibility in the Writing World

Portland Ballroom 251, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Thursday, March 28, 2019
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

How can writers craft a world in which diverse voices are heard, especially in institutions without diverse leadership? This panel brings together writers and editors to discuss the ways in which they have advocated for a range of voices in the arenas of publishing, prizes, and the university, and the successes and challenges they’ve experienced along the way.


Participants

Moderator:

Tina Cane is a poet, teacher, and the founder/ director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. Her books include The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena, and Once More With Feeling. She serves as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island.

Christopher Soto is the author of Sad Girl Poems and the editor of Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. In 2017, he was awarded the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism by Split This Rock. He cofounded the Undocupoets.

Suzi F. Garcia has an MFA in poetry with minors in Gender Studies and Screen Cultures. She is a poetry editor at Noemi Press, a CantoMundo Fellow, Macondonista and her work is published or forthcoming from the University of Arizona Poetry Blog, Vinyl, Fence, the Offing, Drunken Boat, and more.

Farid Matuk is the author of This Is a Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse. Matuk serves on the editorial team at Fence and on the faculty of the MFA program at University of Arizona.

Eloisa Amezcua's debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. She is the author of three chapbooks, is the founder and editor of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry, and the founder of Costura Creative.

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