BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Spring 2021 Tomás Rivera Conference – National Poetry Month Celebration: Ariana Brown\, Jasminne Mendez\, Vanessa Angélica Villar real   X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T025311Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_36435720590103 DTSTART:20210417T190000Z DTEND:20210417T200000Z DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Riverside\n\nThe Spring 2021 Tomás Rivera Conference \n\nAlex Espinoza\, Associate Professor\, \nTomás River a Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English\n\nThe annual Tomás River a Conference\, initiated in 1988\, honors the legacy of Tomás Rivera by p roviding an international forum for reflection on the contributions of Chi canos and Latinos in the worlds of the arts\, literature\, creative writin g\, culture\, business\, medicine\, and education. \n\nhttps://tomasrivera conference.ucr.edu \n\nNational Poetry Month Celebration\n\nAriana Brown\n \nJasminne Mendez\n\nVanessa Angélica Villarreal \n\nApril 17\, 2021\nSa turday 12:00-1:00 pm PST \nOur events will be held virtually on Crowdcast. \nPlease click here for our schedule and to register. \nEvents are free and open to all. \n\nAriana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet f rom San Antonio\, TX. She is the author of Sana Sana\, a poetry chapbook w ith Game Over Books\, and a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion. Ariana’s work investigates queer Black personhood in Mexican American s paces\, queer Black futures\, loneliness\, and healing. She has been writi ng\, performing\, and teaching poetry for ten years.\n\nJasminne Mendez is a Dominican-American poet\, educator\, playwright and award winning autho r. Mendez has had poetry and essays published in numerous journals and ant hologies. She is the author of two multi-genre collections Island of Dream s (Floricanto Press\, 2013) which won an International Latino Book Award\, and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry (Arte Publico P ress\, 2018). Her debut poetry collection Machete will be released in 2022 (Noemi Press). Her second YA memoir A Bucket of Dirty Water: Memories of my Girlhood and her debut picture book Josefina’s Habichuelas (Arte Pú blico Press) will be released in 2021. She is an MFA graduate of the creat ive writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran Un iversity and a University of Houston alumni.\n\nPhoto credit: T. Gorel \n\ nVanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley to Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the award-winning collection Beast Merid ian (Noemi Press\, Akrilica Series 2017)\, recipient of a 2019 Whiting Awa rd\, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination\, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Paris Review\, Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2 021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship\, and fellowships fr om CantoMundo and Jack Jones Literary Arts. She is a doctoral candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern Cal ifornia in Los Angeles\, where she is working on a poetry and an essay col lection while raising her son in Los Angeles.\n\nInformation: Alex Espinoz a\, \nTomás Rivera Endowed Chair aespi062@ucr.edu LOCATION: SUMMARY:Spring 2021 Tomás Rivera Conference – National Poetry Month Cele bration: Ariana Brown\, Jasminne Mendez\, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal    URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.ucr.edu/event/spring_2021_tomas_rivera_confere nce_national_poetry_month_celebrationariana_brownjasminne_mendezvanessa_an gelica_villarreal CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Conferences CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR