Celebrating Latino Poetry with Blas Falconer & Emma Trelles

Join us for an afternoon of poetry and creative conversation celebrating the rich tradition of Latino poetry. Poets Blas Falconer and Emma Trelles will share their poems, discuss their latest works, and offer insights into their creative process.

This program is part of the Places We Call Home public humanities initiative, centered around the publication of the Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (September 2024).

Emma Trelles

Emma Trelles is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2021-23) and a 2023 recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council. In August 2022, she was named one of 22 Poet Laureate Fellows across the country by the Academy of American Poets. Emma is the daughter of Cuban immigrants and was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Emma’s work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets. Emma is the author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, and the series editor of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, open to Latine writers in the U.S. and published by Gunpowder Press.

Blas Falconer

Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, including Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024). He is also 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.

This program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025, directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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