Laurie Ann Guerrero, Guest Author August 31-September 4

Current Poet Laureate of the city of San Antonio and recently appointed Poet Laureate of the state of Texas for 2016, Laurie Ann Guerrero is the author of three poetry collections, Babies under the Skin, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, and A Crown for Gumecindo. Guerrero's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Indiana Review, Huizache, Texas Monthly, Bellevue Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, Feminist Studies, and others.  She is the Writer-in-Residence & Literary Arts Director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio and Director of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros. She holds a BA in English from Smith College and an MFA in poetry from Drew University. Follow Laurie Ann on twitter @laurannguerrero and facebook. Visit her website here. 

Welcome, Laurie Ann.

In other news . . . 

David Lehman and Sherman Alexie to host The Best American Poetry 2015 Launch Reading at The New School

Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, 
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

-- sdh