S133. CANCELLED: The So-Called Yellow Rose—Talking With Three Women Texas State Poets Laureate
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Participants
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.