S133. CANCELLED: The So-Called Yellow Rose—Talking With Three Women Texas State Poets Laureate

Status: Not Accepted

Room 214B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Emily West, the so-called Yellow Rose of Texas, has come down through lore as a slave, a spy, and an erotic distraction. The powerful reality was a free woman of color making Texas history. Also historic is the recent naming of women of various ethnicities, life experiences and esthetics to the position of Poet Laureate. Panelists will discuss being a civic poet of a large diverse state during the years of border wall debate, climate change, and #metoo, each engaging the position on her own terms.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: The_So_Called_Yellow_Rose.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

ire’ne lara silva is the author of three poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, Cuicacalli/House of Song, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. She and poet Dan Vera are also the coeditors of Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzalduan Borderlands.

Emmy Pérez, 2020 Texas poet laureate, is the author of With the River on Our Face and Solstice. She is a past recipient of an NEA poetry fellowship, cofounded Poets Against Walls, and serves on CantoMundo's organizing committee. She is also professor of creative writing at UT Rio Grande Valley.

Laurie Ann Guerrero is the author of A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying and A Crown for Gumecindo. She held consecutive posts as the San Antonio poet laureate (2014–2016) and Texas poet laureate (2016–2017). She is the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.

Rosemary Catacalos was 2013 Texas poet laureate. Her work has has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry, and she has held NEA and Stanford Stegner fellowships. She is the author of a fine press chapbook, Begin Here. She is listed on the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster.

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