Tucson Festival of Books

Fearless Forms


How can poets challenge traditional boundaries of form, voice and structure to produce innovative writing? Through prose poetry, visual poetry, and other experimental techniques, three fearless poets discuss how they push the limits of craft.


Panelists
Jose Hernandez Díaz

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of "The Fire Eater," "Bad Mexican," "Bad American," "The Parachutist," and "Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man." He has been published in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review,The Iowa Review, Huizache and other literary journals....

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Amber McCrary

Amber McCrary is of the Kin Łichíí’nii clan, born for the Naakaii Dine’é clan. Her maternal grandfather is the Áshįįhí clan and her paternal grandfather is the Ta’neeszahnii clan....

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m.s. RedCherries

RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in New York City....

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Books:
Bad Mexican, Bad American
Poems
Jose Hernandez Díaz
Poetry
Acre Books
March 2024
ISBN 9781946724731
82 pages
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Blue Corn Tongue
Poems in the Mouth of the Desert
Amber McCrary
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
January 2025
ISBN 9780816554300
114 pages
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Blue Corn Tongue is a like mixtape from a thirty-something Diné punk girl. It offers poetry about love, friendship, environmental destruction, and language loss.

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m.s. RedCherries
Poetry
Penguin Publishing Group
July 2024
ISBN 9780143137832
144 pages
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