1. Thursday, May 14, 2015
3:30-5:00pm
Burke Museum
University of Washington
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow
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Correspondencias:
A Reading in Honor of Alfredo Arreguín
The Bull Got into the Flower Garden — Alfredo Arreguín
Tess Gallagher is the author of nine
books of poetry, including Midnight
Lantern: New and Selected Poems,
Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge,
Amplitude, and Instructions to the
Double. Gallagher’s The Man from
Kenvara: Selected Stories was
published fall 2009. In 2008 she published Barnacle
Soup—Stories from the West of Ireland, a
collaboration with storyteller Josie Gray. Gallagher is
also the author of Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years
with Ray, A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry, and
two collections of short fiction: At the Owl Woman
Saloon and The Lover of Horses and Other Stories.
Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate
of California, is the author of 23 books,
including Rebozos of Love, Exiles of
Desire, Facegames, Akrílica, Mayan
Drifter, Thunderweavers, Giraffe on
Fire, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t
Cross the Border, Half of the World in
Light, Senegal Taxi, and Portraits of Hispanic
American Heroes, which just garnered the 2015 Pura
Belpré Book Award. A musical based on The Upside
Down Boy, also an award winning book, was well
received in New York City in 2004.
Larry Matsuda was born in the
Minidoka, Idaho War Concentration
Center during WW II. He holds a
Ph.D. in Education from the
University of Washington and has
been a secondary teacher, university
counselor, state level administrator,
and visiting professor at Seattle
University. He is the author of A Cold Wind from
Idaho and Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner, a joint
project with artist Roger Shimomura.
Lauro Flores, Professor of Latin
American and Chicano literatures
and cultures, and current chair of
American Ethnic Studies at the
University of Washington. His
publications include The Floating
Borderlands, Alfredo Arreguín:
Patterns of Dreams and Nature,
Fulgencio Lazo: Reconstrucción de la memoria,
and A Arreguín: Correspondencias.