Transcending Borders through Language: The Poetry and Craft of Emmy Pérez

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Emmy Pérez

Location

Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094

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Presentation

Start Date

23-9-2024 6:00 PM

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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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Sep 23rd, 6:00 PM

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.