Poetry on Tap
Schedule
Tue, 25 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
2927 East Washington Avenue, Madison, WI 53704 | Madison, WI
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Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez is a 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-American writer, editor, publisher, and activist. The former poet laureate of Madison, Wisconsin, she was the first Latina to hold the position (2020-2024). During her poet laureate term, she started the first Youth Poet Laureate program in the state. Angie holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts, IAIA.edu. Finishing Line Press published her collections, In Light, Always Light, in May 2019, and My People Redux, in January 2022 which garnered many accolades. In 2021, she attended the Macondo Writers Workshop and became a fellow, or a Macondista. Her poems have appeared most recently in the Yellow MedicineReview, Somos Xicanas, on city sidewalks, online on Poem-A-Day, The Poetry Foundation’s website, and in many anthologies. In 2020 she published and co-edited a poetry anthology of Wisconsin poets, Through This Door through her press Art Night Books.
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