Huizache Launch Party & Reading

Join Huizache and TANA for a special evening celebrating two exciting new publications: Huizache 12 and Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner María Esquinca’s "Where Heaven Sinks," selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.

Poet Eduardo Corral writes that María’s work “reconfigures familial and national and political narratives into dazzling poems that push border literature into the twenty-first century.” We look forward to recognizing María’s accomplishment and hearing her read from her prize-winning book. We’ll also be marking Huizache’s fourth and final issue published at UC Davis. The national literary magazine will now head to the University of Texas at El Paso. We will be joined by Huizache’s new editor, renowned writer and UTEP professor Daniel Chacón, as well as outgoing poetry editors León Salvatierra and Javier Huerta, contributing poetry editor Yaccaira Salvatierra, and contributing artist Amy Díaz-Infante Siqueiros.

As at every TANA event, there will be plenty of…