Latina Poetry Across the Americas
2nd Annual Madrid Lecture and Symposium
The 2nd Annual Madrid Lecture and Symposium, Latina Poetry Across the Americas, will be a full day of poetry and conversations about Latina poetry and poetics. This symposium, hosted by Dr. Norma E. Cantú, will take place at the Holt Center at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX on April 12, 8:30AM - 10PM, and will include authors such as Carmen Tafolla, Rosemary Catacalos, Lucha Corpi, Rossy Evelin Lima as well as many other authors from Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Ecuador, Texas and the U.S.
The hostess and organizer, Norma Elia Cantú, mentioned, "The symposium is named after Arturo Madrid who retired from Trinity ... Every year we focus on a branch of Chicano Art. Last year was visual arts and this year is poetry, the following will be theatre ... The immediate impact is to put Latino / Chicano Arts within the reach of our community."
You may click here to RSVP for the free poetry Symposium.
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Norma E. Cantú, PhD, is a professor at Trinity University and is considered a leading scholar in Chicano/a and Latino/a studies. She was a senior arts administrator with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC and was Acting Chair of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her teaching interests include Cultural Studies, Contemporary Literary Theory, Border Studies, Chicano/a and Latina/o Literature & Film, Folklore and Women’s Studies. Dr. Cantú has published articles on a number or academic subjects as well as poetry and fiction.
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Carmen Tafolla, PhD, was born in San Antonio, Texas and started her career in literature as a poet. Her very first collection of poems, “Get Your Tortillas Together” and other literary works were reflective of her Mexican descent. Featuring Chicana culture and themes in almost all her writings, she emphasized their strength and resiliency. She has also ventured into writing children’s books and memoirs. Tafolla has received various literary awards such as Tomas Rivera Mexican American Award for Children’s Books, Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and Charlotte Zolotow Award for Best Children’s Picture Book. She also won first prize in the National Chicano Literary Contest. Carmen Tafolla is an internally recognized writer, educator, poet, and inspirational speaker.
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Rosemary Catacalos was the first Latina to be named Texas Poet Laureate (2013). Her work is seen in textbooks and trade anthologies and has twice been collected in The Best American Poetry. She has earned poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University’s Stegner Program, and the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL)/UT Austin. Her full-length collection, Again for the First Time (Tooth of Time Books, 1984) received the 1985 TIL poetry prize. She is a former executive director of the San Francisco Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Antonio’s Gemini Ink, and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s former InterAmerican Bookfair. Her poems are deeply rooted in the history, folklore, and myths of her Mexican and Greek ancestry.
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Lucha Corpi was born in Jáltipan, Veracruz, México. She came to Berkeley, California, as a student wife in 1964. She is the author of two collections of poetry (translated into English by Catherine Rodríguez-Nieto, two bilingual children’s books, six novels, four of which feature Chicana Detective Gloria Damasco, and a collection of personal essays and family stories. She was a tenured teacher in the Oakland Unified School District’s Neighborhood Centers Program for thirty-one years. She has been the recipient of numerous literary awards and citations. A retired teacher, she resides in Oakland, California.
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Rossy Evelin Lima, PhD, is an international award-winning Mexican poet and linguist. Her work has been published in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies in Spain, Italy, UK, Canada, United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. She has been awarded the Gabriela Mistral Award by the National Hispanic Honor Society, the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Altino in Italy, the International Latino Book Award, the Premio Orgullo Fronterizo Mexicano award by the Institute for Mexicans abroad, the Premio Internazionale La Finestra Eterea in Italy, among others. She is the president and founder of the Latin American Foundation for the Arts, the founder of the International Latin American Poetry Festival (FeIPoL), as well as founder of Jade Publishing
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Liliana Valenzuela is the author of Codex of Journeys: Bendito Camino (Mouthfeel Press, 2013). Her poetry has appeared in Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, Tigertail, Huizache, Borderlands, Drunken Boat and other publications. She has held residencies at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and the Vermont Studio Center. An award-winning translator of U.S. Latino/a writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Dagoberto Gilb, Cristina García, and many others, Valenzuela is the editor of ¡Ahora Sí!, the Spanish publication of the Austin American-Statesman. An inaugural CantoMundo fellow and a long-time Macondo Writers Workshop member, Valenzuela writes poetry in English and Spanish.
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Eleonora Requena was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied Literature in the Catholic University Andrés Bello. She has participated in Creative Writing Workshops (poetry) at the Center of Latin American Studies Rómulo Gallegos-CELARG. She has published the poetry books Sed, Mandados, Es de día, La noche y sus agüeros, Ética del Aire and Nido de tordo. Her texts have been edited in multiple anthologies and Venezuelan critical studies and abroad. She received the V Biennial Latin American Award of Poetry “José Rafael Pocaterra” (1998-2000), by the Ateneo de Valencia with the book Mandados and the Premio Italia 2007 para la Poesía in the Certamen “Mediterráneo y Caribe”, by Italian Institute of Culture in Venezuela and the Center of Contemporary Poetry from the University of Boloña.
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Eugenia Toledo, PhD, (Temuco, Chile) completed her higher degrees in Spanish, and came to the U.S. for doctoral studies after her university instructorship was terminated following the 1973 military coup. She received an M.A. in Latin American Literature and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Washington, and settled in Seattle to teach and write. She has published four books of poetry and a creative writing text in Spanish. Her new, 4Culture award-winning bilingual poetic sequence is Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces (translated by Carolyne Wright, Mayapple Press, 2017), the story of an exile's return to her homeland after a military coup sent her away for decades.
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ire’ne lara silva is the author of two poetry collections, furia (Mouthfeel Press, 2010) and Blood Sugar Canto (Saddle Road Press, 2016), which were both finalists for the International Latino Book Award in Poetry, an e-chapbook, Enduring Azucares, (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), as well as a short story collection, flesh to bone (Aunt Lute Books, 2013) which won the Premio Aztlán. She and poet Dan Vera are also the co-editors of Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, (Aunt Lute Books, 2017), a collection of poetry and essays. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award, and the 2008 recipient of the Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award.
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Minerva Margarita Villarreal (Nuevo León, México) is the author of several books which have been awarded the Premio Nacional Alfonso Reyes 1990, the Premio Internacional de Poesía Jaime Sabines 1994, the Premio de Poesía del Certamen Internacional de Literatura Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2010, and more recently, the Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascalientes 2016. She is a Artistic Member of the National System of Art Creators. In 2013 she received the Honor Prize Naji Naaman’s in Líbanon. She is a professor at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León as well as an Associate Member of the Mexican Culture Seminary.
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Ángeles Martínez Donoso is co-editor of Diario El TIEMPO CUENCA. She is a professor of Spanish, Literature and Esthetic Education at CEDFI college, Coordinator of Cátedra Abierta de Historia, Editor for BG Magazine. She has worked as an editor, professor of literature and esthetics and in culture related projects, local history and academic research. She is currently an editor for Casa de la Cultura Núcleo at Azuay. In 2013 she was a juror for Fondos Concursables del Ministerio de Cultura, Ecuador. She has represented her country in several national literary events. Her poetry appears in numerous national and international anthologies.
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Ivonne Gordon, PhD, (Quito, Ecuador) is a poet, literary critic, and literary translator. She received her Ph.D. from UC, Irvine in Latin American Literature with emphasis in Latinxs Literature. She is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Redlands. She has published 5 books of poetry and has 3 forthcoming. Has been invited to participate in International poetry festivals, anthologies and literary journals, as well as the Library of Congress. Among her distinctions: finalist of several respected International Poetry Awards, her poetry has been recorded at Library of Congress, was recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award, and received the Jorge Carrera Andrade Poetry Award in Ecuador.
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Judith Santopietro (Mexico, 1983). Author of Palabras de Agua (Conaculta, 2010) and Tiawanaku (ORCA, 2018). She has published in the Yearbook of Mexican Poetry 2006 (Fondo de Cultura Económica); Anthology from National Literature Gathering in Indigenous Languages (2008). She received the National Poetry Award “Lázara Meldiú” 2014 and was a finalist in the International Literary Award “Aura Estrada”, 2017. Visiting researcher at Leiden University (The Netherlands). She directed Iguanazul, a project to revitalize indigenous languages (2005-2016). Santopietro is a PhD student in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. She writes narratives on indigenous migrants settled in New York City.
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