Veronica Golos, Guest Author June 10-14

 This week we welcome Veronica Golos as our guest blogger.Veronica is the author of Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award. An exploration of war and its witnessing-from-afar, poems from Vocabulary of Silence have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Indonesian and Spanish.   She is also the author of A Bell Buried Deep, co winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press), an re telling of the biblical story of Sarah and Hagar, involving race, servitude, history, slavery, and freedom, in a series of lyrical persona poems, to be re-issued by Tupelo Press.

She is co-editor of the Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, and the Acquisitions Editor for 3:A Taos Press. She was Poet in Residence at Sacred Heart Academy in Greenwich, CT in 2005, at the Nassau Museum of Art, and Yaxche School in Taos, New Mexico. She has lectured on Teaching Poetry to Children at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College and Colorado State College. Golos’ work has been widely published and anthologized nationally and internationally.  She was awarded residencies at the Wurlizter Foundation, awarded Creative Woman Fellowship by A Room of Her Own, among others.  A lifelong activist for social justice, humanitarian and peace causes, Golos uses her poetry not only to interpret and question but “to challenge and act.” She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her husband, writer David Pérez.

Welcome, Veronica. 

-- sdh