ire’ne lara silva, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, FirstPoems, and the eaters of flowers, 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. Her first comic book, VENDAVAL, will be released by the Chispa Imprint of Scout Comics in July 2024. http://www.irenelarasilva.wordpress.com
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:
May 6-7, 2024 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
May 16-18, 2024, Thursday, May 16: 830am-930am Featured Session with Norma Elia Cantu, Rachel Yvonne Cruz, ire’ne lara silva, and Imelda Martin Junquera, Chapman Auditorium, Saturday, May 18: 1130am-1230pm Corazon Collective Reading, Chapman Auditorium, El Mundo Zurdo Conference, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
May 28, 2024 7pm, Reading with KB Brookins, Amanda Johnston, Maryan Nagy Captan, and ire’ne lara silva, Alienated Majesty Bookstore, Austin, TX
June 7, 2024 Galeria Eva/10th Anniversary Celebration, San Antonio, TX
June 12, 2024 Reading with Marcela Fuentes, in conversation with ire’ne lara silva, Nowhere Bookstore, San Antonio, TX
June 23, 2024 Soy Austin Celebration, Austin, TX
July 13, 2024 2pm Reading with Marcela Fuentes and ire’ne lara silva, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Bookstore, San Antonio, TX
July 21, 2024 Reading with Carmen Calatayud, Gume Laurel III, and ire’ne lara silva, Alienated Majesty, Austin, TX
Header Image Art: detail from Phantoms by Moises S. L. Lara
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