Latinx Poetics Featuring Ruben Quesada

The Latinx Identity Project

Hola, bienvenidos, and welcome to another episode of the Latinx Identity Project. This is the podcast where we tell stories for us and by us. I am your host, Elsa Iris Reyes.

Today’s guest is Ruben Quesada, a critically acclaimed writer and author of his latest novel, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry.

Join us as we deep dive into Ruben’s inspiration for his writing and the state of Latino literature today.

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More about Ruben:
https://www.rubenquesada.com/

Ruben Quesada is also the author of Revelations (2018), Next Extinct Mammal
(2011), and translator of Selected Translations of Luis Cernuda (2008).
Quesada has served as an editor for AGNI, Pleiades, and The Kenyon Review. His
writing appears in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Guernica, and Harvard
Review. He has been honored by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special
Events in the City of Chicago, Canto Mundo, Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat,
Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Vermont Studio Center. Quesada has
taught courses on poetry and poetics for Vermont College of Fine Arts, Northwestern University, Chicago High School for the Arts, School of the Art
Institute, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California, Riverside. He is an Associate Teaching Fellow at The Attic Institute and teaches for the UCLA Writers’ Program. He lives in Chicago and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
Connect with Ruben on twitter @RubenQuesada

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Artwork and intro music by Emmanuel Reyes @trueloathing