Laurie Ann Guerrero
poet, essayist, educator, scholar
"Laurie Ann Guerrero is a poet whose poems are interested in language as a method of recording creation and destruction ...poems (that) risk showing beauty where beauty has been overlooked. They uncover terror where we were afraid to look for it.... (Hers is) a body of many houses, languages, allegiances, histories, and it is this strikingly rendered complexity that makes it harder for us to dismiss one another, which is to say imagination and empathy are so often at the core of her poems, but butcher knives, too, are at the cores of her poems."
-Aracelis Girmay, author of Teeth and Kingdom Animalia
Laurie Ann Guerrero received the Academy of American Poets Prize, among others, at Smith College. Winner of the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, her first full-length collection, A TONGUE IN THE MOUTH OF THE DYING, is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Guerrero's poetry and critical work have appeared or are forthcoming in Huizache, Boxcar Review, Acentos Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, Palo Alto Review, Global City Review, Literary Mama, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Feminist Studies and others. Born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio, Guerrero holds a B.A. in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA from Drew University. Guerrero's chapbook, Babies Under the Skin (2008), won the Panhandler Publishing Award, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye. A CANTOMUNDO fellow and member of the MACONDO Writers' Workshop, Guerrero teaches critical & creative writing at Palo Alto College.
A TONGUE IN THE MOUTH OF THE DYING
By Laurie Ann Guerrero
2012 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize,
selected by Francisco X. Alarcon
forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press
"A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying is a collection of poems that would haunt the reader and won’t be easy to forget. I celebrate and praise the power of these poems that engage the great diversity of human reality with empathy, and do this, also with tremendous imagination. These poems restore my faith in the power of poetry."
—Francisco X. Alarcón, final judge
Read more in the Letras Latinas Blog
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Corazón Bilingüe
"Because the heart beats to all languages
we engage in conversations exploring the dynamics of language,
culture and the art of poetry."
Click here to listen to Brenda Nettles Riojas
interview Laurie Ann Guerrero
February 12, 2012
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ATTA GIRL! PRODUCTIONS & PALO ALTO COLLEGE present
A TONGUE IN THE MOUTH OF THE DYING,
a dramatic staged reading
Jesse Borrego, Selena Sue Navarro & Monessa Esquivel star in
A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying
by Laurie Ann Guerrero
Original Score by Marco Cholo Quintet
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Felicitaciones! to the CantoMundo 2011 Fellows
Millicent Bórges Accardi
Diana Marie Delgado
Carolina Ebeid
Benjamín A. García
Rodney Gomez
Laurie Ann Guerrero
Leticia Hernández-Linares
Manuel Paul López
Carl Marcum
Juan J. Morales
J. Michael Martinez, Carl Marcum, Ire'ne Lara Silva, Diego Baez, Oscar Bermeo, Eduardo Corral, Gloria Amescua, Benjamin Garcia, Vikas Menon, Juan Morales, Deborah Paredez, Pablo Miguel Martinez, Carmen Tafolla, Barbara Curiel, Celeste Guzman Mendoza, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Leticia Hernandez, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Saenz, Manuel Paul Lopez, Norma Cantu, Diana Delgado, Francisco Aragon, Sheryl Luna, Amalia Ortiz, Cynthia Cruz, Carolina Ebeid, Millicent Borges Accardi & Luivette Resto
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Macondo Writers' Workshop
Juan Luis Guzman, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Veronica Reyes, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Gabriella Lemmons, Rene Colato Lainez, Pat Alderete & Amelia Montes
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Panhandler Publishing in pleased to announce that Laurie Ann Guerrero's
Babies Under the Skin
has been selected as winner of the first Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award.
The final judge for this contest was Naomi Shihab Nye.
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