Hispanic Heritage Month -
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This past #HispanicHeritageMonth 2021, we highlighted the work of Hispanic voices in poetry.
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Featuring Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, a first-generation U.S. citizen raised in Houston Texas by Mexican immigrant parents: Her debut poetry collection Beast Meridian has received many awards, including the 2019 Whiting Award. Villarreal’s work aims “to recover the truth from the absences and silences of migration, violence, and colonial erasure.”
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Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles based Salvadoran poet who writes about "her family, her culture, her city, and her fat brown body." She is an internationally recognized body-positive activist and the writer of the column Suelta for Remezcla.
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Rodney Gomez is from Brownsville, Texas, raised by Mexican immigrant parents. He is the author of four poetry collections and a recipient of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize. Gomez's poetry focuses on the intersecting themes of loss, history, racism, violence, and trauma.
Here we spotlight the words of Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Neruda was born and raised in southern Chile, gaining notoriety as a poet upon his arrival in Santiago in 1921. While known for his poetry remarking on themes of love and sexuality, Neruda also made waves with his political poetry, rallying against corruption and supporting the rights of workers.
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Here is the voice is Ada Limón with her poem, "The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual." Limón, who grew up in California, is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. https://www.adalimon.net/
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