Letras Latinas, The Guild Complex
& The Society of the Four Arts King Library
proudly present
The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry ON TOUR
Eduardo C. Corral holds degrees from Arizona State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Post Road, The Nation, and Verse Daily. His poetry has also been honored with a “Discovery”/The Nation award and residencies from Hall Farm Center, The McDowell Colony and Yaddo. He is currently the Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University.
Kevin A. González is the author of the chapbook The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga (Momotombo Press, 2007). A former Meier Renk Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Madison, González’s poems have appeard in many publications, including Poetry, McSweeney’s, Callaloo, and The Progressive. A native of Puerto Rico, he holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His first full-length collection of poems is under contract with Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Sheryl Luna is the author of Pity the Drowned Horses (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and finalist for the Colorado Book Prize. A second book manuscript was recently runner-up for the Ernest Sandeen Prize at the University of Notre Dame. Her poems have appeared widely, including in The Georgia Review, Feminist Studies, and Amherst Review, among others. She holds a PhD from University of North Texas and an MFA from the University of Texas at El Paso. She currently lives and teaches in Denver, CO.
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“The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry ON TOUR” is supported in part by the Ford Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Southwest Airlines through a grant from the NALAC Fund for the Arts.
This special poetry presentation from The Four Arts King Library is made possible by a generous grant from the Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation.
Letras Latinas is the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame
