Searching for Poetic Justice
What does the American Dream look like for Latinx people living in the United States? What does it feel like? Felicia Zamora and Gloria Muñoz explore those questions in their award-winning poetry. Today they will share their thoughts, and some of their poems, with all of us.
| Where: | Tucson Medical Center Stage (Seats 1000) |
| When: | Sat, Mar 6, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
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| Genre: | Poetry |
| Moderator: | Savannah Hicks |
Panelists
Gloria MuñozGloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, literary translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy and writing. Her poetry book Dawn’s Early / Danzirly was awarded the Academy of American Poets 2019 Ambroggio Prize....
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Felicia ZamoraFelicia Zamora is a poet, educator, and editor living in Ohio. She is the author of six books of poetry, including "I Always Carry My Bones," winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press on April 15, 2021, "Quotient" forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2021, "Body of Render," winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press, and "Of Form & Gather," winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize....
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Books:
Danzirly
Gloria Muñoz
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
April 2021
ISBN 9780816542338
160 pages
$16.95, NYP
Buy nowDanzirly is a striking bilingual poetry collection that fiercely examines the nuances of the American Dream for Latinx people in the United States.
With a backdrop of stringent immigration policies, the #MeToo movement, and the increasingly tangible threat of climate change, this collection considers multigenerational Latinx identities in a rapidly changing country and world. Through the author’s Colombian American lens, the poems explore the intersections of culture, gender, history, and intergenerational grief.
Danzirly does not shy away from confronting traditional gender roles, religion, and anxieties surrounding climate change and the digital age. Gloria Muñoz addresses Latinx stereotypes and powerfully dismantles them in poetic form, juxtaposing the promised wonders of a life in America with the harsh realities that immigrants face as they build their lives and raise their families here. Winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize, this collection of poems is an unforgettable reckoning of the grief and beauty that pulses through twenty-first-century America. More/less
Body of Render
Felicia Zamora
Poetry
Red Hen Press
April 2020
ISBN 9781597099752
$16.95, INSTORE
Buy nowBody of Render explores the internal and external impacts on our humanity when political, national, and societal decisions strip away our basic human rights.
What does it mean to be an underrepresented individual in a country where the most powerful seat in the land unashamedly perpetuates racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and classist behaviors? The voices document a journey before and after the last presidential election. These poems cry out for reconsideration of our broken systems to find common and safe ground rooted in equitable treatment of each other as human beings. How do we exude love when being a person of color or underrepresented person in this country means the dominate white-male-able-bodied-heterosexual narrative continues to threaten our voices? This collection carves at the physical, the political, the intimate, and the structural with poems that simultaneously create and encourage voice to seek a path toward collective mending. More/less
