I will be there. Will you? I know I said that last year. But this time I have no excuses! In fact, I'm being forced to go. I'm already looking forward to a lot of panels. Especially this one:
Chicano Politics and the Activist-Writer in American Literature. (Rigoberto
Gonzalez, Moderator, Helena Maria Viramontes, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Lorna Dee
Cervantes, Benjamin Alire Saenz).
The recent deaths of groundbreaking Chicano activists, writers and
intellectuals--among them Gloria Anzaldua, Corky Gonzales and Lalo
Delgado--have posed a challenge to the Chicano community: to reaffirm
identity and mission in a time when the pan-Latino vision is blurring our
specific sociohistorical trajectory. This discussion with renown Chicano
thinkers will focus on the role of the Chicano activist-writer in the new
millennium.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
4 comments:
i should be out there this year... save me a seat!
Eduardo: I'll be there. On two panels: Poetry & Medicine, and Prairie Schooner. Hope to meet you in person. (And introduce you to my honey).
I'm starting to research plane tickets from NYC.
Think it's going to be a reunion!
Diana
DIANA!
ohhh, the readings to be. . . !
somewhere, somehow, there's going to have to be a Xicanerati, then & now, reading. I missed the deadline having to fly back to SF for my father's passing, but maybe we could still do something off-site. Heck, if I have to get a suite and we could pack it & play spin-the-bottle poetry marathon like in the good old días.
Peter! Oliver! It will be so great to meet y'all. Thanks, Rigoberto, for the proposal. (& bet ya don't hear that one often)
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