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In Person
Poetry and portraiture provide a rare view into contemporary Mexican American women’s equestrian performance.
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Lineages & Legacies
Poems, essays, and events that engage with works or people in conversation with the poet. This includes poems about family, poems “after” other poets, works that pull lines from other sources, and land acknowledgments.
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- PoemBy Angelina SáenzThere is a framed photograph of my grandmother
She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china… - PoemBy Angelina SáenzIf you are going to wear this dress
you have to respect the rules
Yes, they are conservative and strict… - PoemBy ire’ne lara silvawe didn’t have time for ribbons or petticoats or
high-necked dresses no time for sidesaddles or
single… - PoemBy Shara McCallumAt this point, I don’t know what in me is Jamaican
versus American. Or, reaching further back,
Trinidadian… - Events-Poetry FoundationA discussion and creative writing workshop on our literary forebears.
- Events-In PersonJoin a live taping of VS in Los Angeles during AWP.
- Events-VirtualA discussion of the eaters of flowers by ire’ne lara silva.
- PoemBy Zoey YazzieI come from ablazea female mountain boulders scorchedcradled—in—betweenbeat—strainedbeet—stained…
- PoemBy Cynthia J. SylvesterThe way my mom restuccoed the house the color of the rosy pink mesas where she was born. The way she…
- PoemBy Danielle ManygoatsBrown, I want you Brown,
Brown roots, Brown trees.
Family lineage ripens into clans
And sheep graze … - PoemBy Hershman JohnWill Power. It is the deepest purple like huckleberries gnashed between bear teeth. The bears have been…
- PoemBy Nia FranciscoNiha hastsoí, nihidzanii
‘álastsii’ nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa’
bílák’ee naazhjaa’go
nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa… - PoemBy Kinsale DrakeIn the years of scorched earth,
Kit Carson’s pale-knife face
bayonetting the sky, his blood thirst,
… - Events-VirtualA discussion of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake.
- Events-VirtualA generative poetry workshop, “Waking Up in the Body,” created and led by Latif Askia Ba
- Events-VirtualA discussion and creative workshop on the power of poetry
- Events-Poetry FoundationJoin us for a poetry reading, artist talk, and reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home.
- Events-Poetry FoundationParticipa en un dialogo entre los poetas participantes del festival Poesía en Abril.
