THE NEXT WAVE OF LATINAS IN POETRY
ARIANA BROWN – ANDREW JULIUS GUTOW ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE RECIPIENT & COLLEGIATE NATIONAL POETRY SLAM CHAMPION 2014
BORN AND RAISED IN SAN ANTONIO, ARIANA HAS BEEN MAKING NATIONAL WAVES, BOTH CREATING AND EXPANDING THE SPACE FOR AFROMEXICANA VOICES. NOT ONLY A NATIONAL POET BUT ALSO AN INNOVATOR, HAVING CO-FOUNDED THE ‘FRESH INK YOUTH SLAM’ IN SAN ANTONIO AND THE ‘SPITSHINE POETRY SLAM’ AT UT AUSTIN. ARIANA GIVING US PURO ORGULLO AS SHE PERFORMS ACROSS THE NATION.
LAURIE ANN GUERRERO – TEXAS POET LAUREATE 2016-2017
GUERRERO, ALSO A SAN ANTONIO NATIVE, IS ONLY THE 3RD LATINA TO BE SELECTED AS THE TEXAS STATE POET LAUREATE. LAURIE, A NATIONAL RECIPIENT OF THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE AND THE 2012 ANDRÉS MONTOYA POETRY PRIZE, IS NOT ONLY AN AWARD-WINNING CHICANA POET BUT ALSO BECAME THE FIRST WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO
UPDATE: THE TEXAS STATE ARTS WERE JUST ANNOUNCED AND EMMY PEREZ, REPRESENTING McALLEN (AND THE BORDERLAND) HAS JUST BEEN SELECTED AT STATE POET LAUREATE FOR 2020!
Originally from Cali but relocated to El Paso where she has family and roots, Emmy then taught at the University of Texas El Paso and is now a resident of The Valley, where she is a professor as well. Author and activist she has been an active member of the resistance across the borderland. FELICIDADES EMMY!
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