Emmy Pérez's guest appearances

Emmy Pérez

This is Just to Say

Tony Diaz #NPRadio

Gray Matters 

Kamala Harris

Sarah Ruhl

Jericho Brown

Mary Oliver

Naomi Shihab Nye

Ted Cruz

José Olivarez

Natalie Diaz

Edward Vidaurre

W.S. Merwin

Jorge Ramos

Wendell Berry

Jose Antonio Vargas

Kaveh Akbar

Marie Howe

OwlTail

Sharmeen and Rikki discuss the creative writing process with Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez.   🌱Check out our website for the resources we discuss on the podcast episodes via the "Resources" page and numerous other interesting finds! Don't forget to sign up with your email to stay connected via our Gray Matters community quarterly newsletter. https://www.graymatterstheblog.com/  🎙️We record on Anchor-the easiest way to make and distribute podcasts. Check out our podcast or make your own! https://anchor.fm/graymatters6  🍎Apple Podcast listeners: Please give us a 5-star rating and leave a review. It helps us improve the blog and podcast, while also allowing our podcast to reach more people to bring the content you love! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gray-matters/id1516877529  🟢Spotify listeners: Check out our trailer and send it to anyone that would be interested in our content, and don't forget to turn on your notifications for new episode releases every Wednesday! https://open.spotify.com/show/1k8NIaHp1UgJzFBRclkQtG?si=ztBKWjdUTpuFD2F2CrgCYA  📷IG: Follow and engage with us on Instagram for daily stories, exclusive content, and new posts that accompany each new episode release. Don't forget to follow our page to stay connected and share our page and content with our IG followers. https://instagram.com/graymatterstheblog/  📍Pinterest: Follow us on Pinterest to pin and share our custom-created pins and posts! https://www.pinterest.com/graymatterstheblog/  📗Shop small with Bookshop! We are an affiliate of Bookshop which means that when you shop via the "Gray Matters the Blog Recommended Book List" link below, proceeds from each purchase help you support us, a small business run by two women of color, and your local bookstores. https://bookshop.org/shop/graymatters  💲Donations are accepted on our website and your support goes towards providing transcripts and continuing content for the Gray Matters community. https://www.graymatterstheblog.com/support-gray-matters  💚If you are interested in advertising with us during our podcast episodes, send us an email at graymatterstheblog@gmail.com  🌳Check out our Linktree for all the above information in one place! https://linktr.ee/Graymatterstheblog  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app  Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/graymatters6/support

Sharmeen and Rikki discuss the creative writing process with Texas Poet Laureate <a href="http://emmyperez.com/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emmy Pérez</a>.  🌱Check out our website for the resources we discuss on the podcast episodes via the "Resources" page and numerous other interesting finds! Don't forget to sign up with your email to stay connected via our Gray Matters community quarterly newsletter. <a href="https://www.graymatterstheblog.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.graymatterstheblog.com/</a> 🎙️We record on Anchor-the easiest way to make and distribute podcasts. Check out our podcast or make your own! <a href="https://anchor.fm/graymatters6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/graymatters6</a> 🍎Apple Podcast listeners: Please give us a 5-star rating and leave a review. It helps us improve the blog and podcast, while also allowing our podcast to reach more people to bring the content you love! <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gray-matters/id1516877529" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gray-matters/id1516877529</a> 🟢Spotify listeners: Check out our trailer and send it to anyone that would be interested in our content, and don't forget to turn on your notifications for new episode releases every Wednesday! <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1k8NIaHp1UgJzFBRclkQtG?si=ztBKWjdUTpuFD2F2CrgCYA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/1k8NIaHp1UgJzFBRclkQtG?si=ztBKWjdUTpuFD2F2CrgCYA</a> 📷IG: Follow and engage with us on Instagram for daily stories, exclusive content, and new posts that accompany each new episode release. Don't forget to follow our page to stay connected and share our page and content with our IG followers. <a href="https://instagram.com/graymatterstheblog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/graymatterstheblog/</a> 📍Pinterest: Follow us on Pinterest to pin and share our custom-created pins and posts! <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/graymatterstheblog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pinterest.com/graymatterstheblog/</a> 📗Shop small with Bookshop! We are an affiliate of Bookshop which means that when you shop via the "Gray Matters the Blog Recommended Book List" link below, proceeds from each purchase help you support us, a small business run by two women of color, and your local bookstores. <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/graymatters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/graymatters</a> 💲Donations are accepted on our website and your support goes towards providing transcripts and continuing content for the Gray Matters community. <a href="https://www.graymatterstheblog.com/support-gray-matters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.graymatterstheblog.com/support-gray-matters</a> 💚If you are interested in advertising with us during our podcast episodes, send us an email at <a href="mailto:graymatterstheblog@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">graymatterstheblog@gmail.com</a> 🌳Check out our Linktree for all the above information in one place! <a href="https://linktr.ee/Graymatterstheblog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/Graymatterstheblog</a> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/graymatters6/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/graymatters6/support</a>

Social Justice & Creative Writing ft. Emmy Pérez

Angela C. Trudell Vasquez

Trudell Vasquez

Two Latina poet laureates join Tony Diaz to discuss the power of poetry to heal and its role in a just and thriving society: Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez and Madison Poet Laureate Angela C. Trudell Vasquez. This episode aired Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 6pm 90.1 FM KPFT Houston.Tune in for NP Radio every Tuesday 6 pm – 7 pm CST on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream on www.KPFT.org. On Demand at www.NuestraPalabra.org.BiosEmmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate 2020, is the author of With the River on Our Face and Solstice. Her work also appears in Other Musics: New Latina Poetry, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Tr---, and other publications. She is a recipient of a poets laureate fellowship with the Academy of American Poets, an NEA poetry fellowship, a CantoMundo fellowship, and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, and for the past 20 years, she's taught writing in the Texas borderlands. In 2017, she co-founded Poets Against Walls and makes #RascuacheProductions poetry videos. Currently, she is Professor of Creative Writing and Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.Angie Trudell Vasquez received her MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been published inTaos Journal of Poetry, Yellow Medicine Review, Raven Chronicles, Return to the Gathering Place of the Waters, and Cloudthroat among other journals and anthologies. She has a page and poems from her first two books on the Poetry Foundation’s website, and was a Ruth Lilly fellow as an undergraduate at Drake University. She has new work forthcoming from RED INK: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts &amp; Humanities.There are no regular shows about our art, culture, and politics on commercial television or radio. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org. We thank you in advance for your support. Thanks to our crew for donating their cultural capital to the show: Leti Lopez, Rodrigo Bravo, who mixed the show remotely, Claudia Soler Alfonso, MD., Jesse Aranda Comer our summer inter through Rice University, Laurie Flores, Stefano Cavezza, and Al Castillo President of LULAC Council 60. Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz on 90.1 FM KPFT. That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm. And catch Tony Diaz on the political talk show What's Your Point on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.www.KPFT.org www.NuestraPalabra.org www.Librotraficante.com www.TonyDiaz.net

Two Latina poet laureates join Tony Diaz to discuss the power of poetry to heal and its role in a just and thriving society: Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez and Madison Poet Laureate Angela C. Trudell Vasquez. This episode aired Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 6pm 90.1 FM KPFT Houston. Tune in for NP Radio every Tuesday 6 pm – 7 pm CST on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream on <a href="http://www.KPFT.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.KPFT.org</a>. On Demand at <a href="http://www.NuestraPalabra.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.NuestraPalabra.org</a>. Bios Emmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate 2020, is the author of With the River on Our Face and Solstice. Her work also appears in Other Musics: New Latina Poetry, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Tr---, and other publications. She is a recipient of a poets laureate fellowship with the Academy of American Poets, an NEA poetry fellowship, a CantoMundo fellowship, and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, and for the past 20 years, she's taught writing in the Texas borderlands. In 2017, she co-founded Poets Against Walls and makes #RascuacheProductions poetry videos. Currently, she is Professor of Creative Writing and Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Angie Trudell Vasquez received her MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been published in Taos Journal of Poetry, Yellow Medicine Review, Raven Chronicles, Return to the Gathering Place of the Waters, and Cloudthroat among other journals and anthologies. She has a page and poems from her first two books on the Poetry Foundation’s website, and was a Ruth Lilly fellow as an undergraduate at Drake University. She has new work forthcoming from RED INK: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts &amp; Humanities. There are no regular shows about our art, culture, and politics on commercial television or radio. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit <a href="http://www.kpft.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.kpft.org</a>. We thank you in advance for your support. Thanks to our crew for donating their cultural capital to the show: Leti Lopez, Rodrigo Bravo, who mixed the show remotely, Claudia Soler Alfonso, MD., Jesse Aranda Comer our summer inter through Rice University, Laurie Flores, Stefano Cavezza, and Al Castillo President of LULAC Council 60. Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz on 90.1 FM KPFT. That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm. And catch Tony Diaz on the political talk show What's Your Point on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am. <a href="http://www.KPFT.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.KPFT.org</a> <a href="http://www.NuestraPalabra.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.NuestraPalabra.org</a> <a href="http://www.Librotraficante.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.Librotraficante.com</a> <a href="http://www.TonyDiaz.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.TonyDiaz.net</a>

Latina poet laureates Emmy Pérez and Angela C. Trudell Vasquez. #NPradio

Poet Emmy Pérez reads her poem “Green Light Go” and talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about living on the border as an act of resistance, the beauty of writing from anger, the healing power of the natural world, and much more.

Poet <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emmy-perez" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emmy Pérez</a> reads her poem “<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91470/green-light-go" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Green Light Go</a>” and talks with poet and novelist <a href="https://www.carriefountain.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carrie Fountain</a> about living on the border as an act of resistance, the beauty of writing from anger, the healing power of the natural world, and much more.