We’re reading Sergio Troncoso’s A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son. How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America?
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November 17th, 2021 via Zoom @ 7PM CST
We’re reading and discussing celebrated poet Edward Vidaurre’s collection Pandemia & Other Poems. This session will be moderated by Aztlan Libre Press co-founder Juan Tejeda.
Up Next: We’re reading and discussing Sherry Kafka Wagner’s novel Hannah Jackson. This session will be moderated by Naomi Shihab Nye.
We’re chatting with Octavio Quintanilla discussing his novel, If I Go Missing, with guest moderator Natalia Treviño.
THE BOOK An astonishing debut, If I Go Missing is timely, fearless, and necessary. In these poems, Octavio Quintanilla measures displacement with language and grapples with the longing to begin anew, to return to what was left unsaid, undone. Redemption is not always possible in the geography of these poems, but there is always a sense of hope. And by this pulse we are guided, the poet’s unmistakable voice that, finally, clears the way so we may find our bearing.
A Free Monthly Online Reading Series from Writing Workshops Dallas & Gemini Ink.
UP NEXT: We’re reading and discussing Nan Cuba’s novel, Body and Bread. This program will be moderated by Helen Fremont.