We are thrilled to invite you to attend South Texas College’s annual Hispanic Heritage Month festivities.
On Sept. 30 at 6pm at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room, Rio Grande Valley distinguished poets, Emmy Pérez, Lina Suarez, Erika Garza and Isaac Chavarria will read at STC Pecan Campus library’s poetry event, “Voices of the Border.” Emmy Pérez is the author of Solstice and a new poetry manuscript With the River on our Face. The event will be followed by pan dulce and a booksigning.
Chicana poet Emmy Pérez is the author of Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2011, 2nd edition) and a new poetry manuscript With the River on our Face. Currently, she is at work on a third book, I Am Joaquín’s Mom.
She is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas-Pan American, where she teaches creative writing and Mexican American Studies courses. She has also taught poetry and writing in adult and juvenile detention centers. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Southern California, Originally from Santa Ana, California, she has lived on the Tejas-Mexico border, since the new millennium.
Emmy Perez, Lina Suarez, Isaac Chavarria, and Erika Garza have been published in their own publications as well as the anthologies New Border Voices: An Anthology and Juventud: Growing up on the Border, Stories and Poems. Copies of both publications were co-edited by Erika Garza and will be available for purchase at the event.
For more information about these events please contact Esther Garcia at (956)872-6485 or egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu, or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents/.
For a full listing of events:http://library.southtexascollege.edu/?p=5018
