ire’ne lara silva, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, and FirstPoems, two chapbooks, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán.ire’ne is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. Most recently, ire’ne was awarded the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. ire’ne is currently a Writer at Large for Texas Highways Magazine and is working on a second collection of short stories titled, the light of your body. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024.
New poetry collection coming January 2024 from Saddle Road Press!
Video clips:
Excerpt from “song of the burning woman”, Alaska Quarterly Review.
Laboratorio #19 with Carrie Rodriguez, “there will be singing in the morning”, 2022.
“you love rivers,” recorded by Emmy Perez for Poets Against Walls, 2019.
“what i remembered yesterday,” filmed by Maria G. Rios, 2019.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 2023 TBA Corazon Collective Tour: El Paso, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Placitas, Santa Fe. Featuring jo reyes-boitel, Angelina Saenz, Carmen Calatayud, Jen Yanez-Alaniz, and ire’ne lara silva
June 16, 2023 7pm Corazon Collective Reading, Cafe Mayapan, El Paso, TX
June 17, 2023 1pm Corazon Collective Workshop, Cafe Mayapan, El Paso, TX $50 Registration (includes lunch)
June 18, 2023 2-4pm Corazon Collective Workshop, Nogalitos Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
June 18, 2023 6pm Corazon Collective Workshop, Nogalitos Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
June 20, 2023 7pm Corazon Collective Reading, Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM
June 22, 2023 7pm Corazon Collective Reading, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
June 23, 2023 7pm Corazon Collective Reading, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
June 24, 2023 Time TBA Corazon Collective Workshop, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
July 2023 Texas Rural Tour sponsored by the Texas Commission on the Arts. All events free.
Six events to be offered by Writer:
July 12, 2023 4pm Clyde Public Library, Clyde, TX, Writer’s Workshop (Adult)
July 13, 2023 10:30am Anson Public Library, Anson, TX, Visual Poetry Workshop (Kids)
July 14, 2023 10:30am Stephenville Public Library, Stephenville, TX, Visual Poetry Workshop (Kids)
July 15, 2023 7pm 3Rivers Foundation, Crowell, TX, Reading and Presentation
July 18, 2023 2pm Bicentennial Library, Paducah, TX, Reading
July 19, 2023 1pm Carnegie County Library, Vernon, TX, Reading
Header Image Art: detail from Phantoms by Moises S. L. Lara
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