Oct
2

MFA Programs in Writing present readings by Blas Falconer and Brent Ameneyro

Light refreshments and book sale at the event.

All are welcome to join!

 

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 

Humanities Gateway 1030

@5:30pm

 

Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, including Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024) and the coeditor of two anthologies: The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (The University of Arizona Press, 2011), with Lorraine M. López, and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), with Beth Martinelli and Helena Mesa. Falconer is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University and is the editor-in-chief at Poetry International Online

 

Brent Ameneyro is the author of the collection A Face Out of Clay (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2024) and the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023). He was the 2022-2023 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as an associate at Letras Latinas and as the poetry editor for The Los Angeles Review.