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Laura Tohe has been a writer and scholar for over 23 years and is the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate (2015-2017). She has published several books of poetry, edited an anthology of Native American women writing, written an oral history book on the Navajo Code Talkers, and written a commissioned libretto for the Phoenix Symphony. Her current project is a commissioned libretto for an opera scheduled for a 2018 premiere in France and Austria. She has been affiliated as a speaker for the AZ Humanities for 21 years. She is the author of Making Friends With Water (chapbook); No Parole Today (poetry); Sister Nations (anthology of women writing); Tseyi, Deep in the Rock (poetry); Code Talker Stories (oral history); Enemy Slayer (libretto and CD) performed by the Phoenix Symphony, Colorado Music Festival and the U of Utah, Salt Lake. Her awards include the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award; Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers; AZ Glyph Award; Pushcart nomination; the Arizona Humanities Dan Schilling Public Scholar Award; Faculty Exemplar (ASU). For more about Laura Tohe, visit lauratohe.com. |
Friday, September 29, 3:30-4:30pm, Seedboat Gallery, Poetry Reading and Discussion: Venturous Journeys Jesús J. Barquet (Havana, 1953) arrived in the U.S. in 1980, via the Mariel Boatlift. He is a Professor Emeritus of NMSU and the founder and Editor Chief of La Mirada publishing house since 2014. Winner of the "Letras de Oro Prize" for his Consagración de La Habana (1991); and the "Lourdes Casal Prize" for his Escrituras poéticas de una nación (1998). 2nd Prize Winner of "Chicano-Latino Poetry" for his Un no rompido sueño (1994). Among his books of poetry are Sin decir el mar, Sagradas herejías, JJ/CC, Sin fecha de extinción, Los viajes venturosos /Venturous Journeys, and the compilation Cuerpos del delirio. |
Originally from Colombia, Andrea Cote-Botero is the author of the poetry collections: Chinatown a toda hora (2017), Desierto Rumor (2016), La ruina que nombro (2015), Port in Ashes (2003), Fragile Things and Chinatown 24 hours (Object Book). She has also published books of prose: A Nude Photographer: A Biography of Tina Modotti and Blanca Varela or Writing From Solitude. She has obtained the following recognitions: The National Prize of Poetry from the Universidad Externado of Colombia (2003), the Puentes de Struga International Poetry Prize (2005) and the Cittá de Castrovillari Prize (2010) to the italian edition of Port in Ashes. Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Arabic, Polish, Greek and Chinese. Her first poetry book Puerto Calcinado, was published in French by the prestigious quebecois press Ecrist de Forge. She is Assistant Professor of poetry in the Bilingual M.F.A in Creative Writing at the University of Texas of El Paso |
Currently the City of Albuquerque's Poet Laureate, Manuel González, is a performance poet who began his career in the poetry slam. Manuel has represented Albuquerque on a national level as a member of the Albuquerque poetry slam team 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007. He has also appeared on the PBS show, Colores: My word is my power. Manuel was one of the founding members of the poetry troupe The Angry Brown Poets. Manuel also has a collection of his poetry published by Swimming with Elephants Press entitled But my friends call me Burque.... He teaches workshops on self-expression and poetry in schools, at risk youth facilities, youth detention centers and most recently at the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. Manuel is from Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
Jessica Helen Lopez is the former City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate and the Poet-In-Residence for the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History from 2014 - 2016. She has also been a featured writer for 30 Poets in their 30's by MUZZLE and named one of the "10 Up and Coming Lantina Poets You Need to Know" by international digital publisher and agency, Remezcla. Lopez holds the title of 2012 and 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam ABQ Champion. She is a member of the Macondo Foundation. Founded by Sandra Cisneros, it is an association of socially engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community. Her first collection of poetry, Always Messing with Them Boys (West End Press, 2011), made the Southwest Book of the Year reading list and was also awarded the Zia Book Award presented by NM Women Press. Her second collection of radical feminist poetry, Cunt. Bomb, is published by Swimming with Elephants Publication (2014). Her third collection, The Language of Bleeding: Poems for the International Poetry Festival, Nicaragua (SWEP) is a limited release in honor of her ambassadorial visit to Granada, Nicaragua. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Lopez is a Ted Talk speaker alumni and a featured poet on PBS Colores! An Adjunct Instructor for UNM Chicana Studies Department and Institute of American Indian Arts, she is also a book reviewer for World Literature Today Magazine. |
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