Transcending Borders through Language: The Poetry and Craft of Emmy Pérez
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
23-9-2024 6:00 PM
Description
Emmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate of 2020, has lived in the Texas borderlands for 24 years. She is the author of the poetry collections With the River on Our Face (University of Arizona Press) and Solstice (Swan Scythe Press). Her latest collection, Paper America: New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from TCU Press in 2025. Copies of With the River on Our Face will be available for purchase after the reading.
Recommended Citation
Pérez, Emmy, "Transcending Borders through Language: The Poetry and Craft of Emmy Pérez" (2024). Humanities Symposium. 29.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2024/2024/29
Transcending Borders through Language: The Poetry and Craft of Emmy Pérez
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
Emmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate of 2020, has lived in the Texas borderlands for 24 years. She is the author of the poetry collections With the River on Our Face (University of Arizona Press) and Solstice (Swan Scythe Press). Her latest collection, Paper America: New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from TCU Press in 2025. Copies of With the River on Our Face will be available for purchase after the reading.

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