RIK Vazquez is a spoken word artist and educator. At the age of eighteen he coached the Steinmetz Poetry team which competed in Chicago’s “Louder Than A Bomb” youth poetry slam, the team won and went on to compete on a national level. The teams RIK has coached in successive years have met all personal…
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE THIS YEARS PROSE AWARDS WINNERS Fiction 1st Place: “Shisha Love” by Sahar Mustafah Runners Up: “Left Leg, Just Above the Knee” by Jason Lee Brown and “Loose Ends” by Claire Bartlett Non-Fiction 1st Place: “TACET” by Ingrida Martinkus Runners Up: “Late Victorians: On Reading & Loving & (-not) Dying” by Suzanne Scanlon and “That Which I Should Have Done I…
This installment of Palabra Pura will explore the effect on individuals and communities of not fitting in to preconceived Latino identities. It is curated by Jennifer Patiño and features poets: Beatriz Ruiz, Anthony Michael Cooremans and Iztac Metztli.