 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Robert Vasquez is a Chicano/Latino poet, writer and teacher.
| This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Robert Vasquez is a Chicano/Latino poet, writer and teacher.
Born to working-class parents, Vasquez was raised in California's Central Valley.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University at Fresno and a Master of Fine Arts in English from the University of California, Irvine. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing for two years at Stanford University.
Vasquez's poetry has received various awards, including three Academy of American Poets prizes, three National Society of Arts and Letters awards, and a National Writers Union award.
In 2004 he was the inaugural judge for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. [1]
He has taught at Western Michigan University and University of California, Davis and University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently teaches at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA. In his creative writing courses, he focuses on Freudian theory in student writing.
He is the author of At the Rainbow (University of New Mexico Press) winner of the James Duval Phelan Award and the chapbook, Braille for the Heart, (Momotombo Press, 2007).
Vasquez's poetry has been published in various journals including The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Missouri Review , The New England Review , The Notre Dame Review , Parnassas: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares , VerseDaily.com, and The Village Voice .
 | This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: punctuation unclear.(June 2024) |
After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties edited by Ray Gonzalez, American Religious Poetry: An Anthology Edited by Harold Bloom, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, California the Beautiful, The Geography of Home, Highway 99, How Much Earth, Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State, Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets, Proud Harvest, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, and Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West.
Gary Anthony Soto is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.
Larry Patrick Levis was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems have appeared posthumously, and received general acclaim.
Paul Martínez Pompa is a Latino poet.
Luisa A. Igloria is a Filipina American poet and author of various award-winning collections, and is the most recent Poet Laureate of Virginia (2020-2022).
Andrés Montoya was a Chicano poet.
Valerie Martínez is an American poet, writer, educator, arts administrator, consultant, and collaborative artist. She served as the poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2008 to 2010.
Ned Balbo is an American poet, translator, and essayist.
Victor L. Martinez was an American poet and author. He won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his first novel, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida.
Letras Latinas is the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), with an office on campus in South Bend, Indiana, as well as Washington, D.C. It strives to enhance the visibility, appreciation and study of Latino literature both on and off the campus of the University of Notre Dame, with an emphasis on programs that support newer voices, foster a sense of community among writers, and place Latino writers in community spaces.
The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Competition is a biennial program of Letras Latinas in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Press. Founded in 2004, the Latino poetry competition seeks to publish the first collection of a promising Latino-American poet who has not previously published a book of poetry.
Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, professor, and served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023.
Francisco Aragón is a Latino poet, editor and writer.
Sheryl Luna is an American writer.
Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American poet, short story writer, translator, editor, and professor.
Daniel Chacón is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas. He chairs the University of Texas, El Paso's creative writing graduate program, the country's only bilingual MFA program. He founded the Chicano Writers and Artists Association with Fresno State classmate and close friend Andrés Montoya in 1985.
Beth Ann Fennelly is an American poet and prose writer and was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is a poet, former journalist, interdisciplinary artist and founder of Squircle Line Press. He has authored six poetry collections, an epistolary novel, and edited more than fifteen books. He has an MFA in creative writing, and is also an avid potter.
Laurie Ann Guerrero is a Chicana poet from San Antonio, Texas. She was the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2014 to 2016 and the Poet Laureate of Texas from 2016 to 2017. In the fall semester of 2017, she became the first writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University San Antonio and a "fully immersed faculty member. She will teach a contemporary American woman poets course, host numerous University writing workshops and mentor students while working on her next writing project."
David Campos (poet) is an American poet, writer, and producer of video poetry from California. His debut collection, Furious Dusk, won the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS).
Verónica Reyes is a Chicana, Latina, LGBT poet from East Los Angeles, California. She is known for her book of poetry Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives, which won her several awards. In 2014, she was honored with the International Latino Book Award and the Golden Crown Literary Society Award, and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. In 1999, she won the AWP Intro Journals Project award and was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
 | This American poet–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |