Sunday, May 23 at 3 p.m. via Zoom
Join us for a delightfully poetic afternoon as the Lummis Day Viva Poetry Library series makes its return. Come hear from local poets Erika Ayón and Ramón García as they share their work and provide insight into the process of writing poetry. Questions are welcome.
[About the poets]
Erika Ayón emigrated from Mexico when she was five years old and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English. She was selected as a 2009 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow. She has taught poetry to middle and high school students across Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review, Dryland, Chiricú Journal, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Coiled Serpent Anthology, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection Orange Lady was published by World Stage Press.
Erika Ayón emigrated from Mexico when she was five years old and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English. She was selected as a 2009 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow. She has taught poetry to middle and high school students across Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review, Dryland, Chiricú Journal, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Coiled Serpent Anthology, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection Orange Lady was published by World Stage Press.
Ramón García is the author of two books of poetry The Chronicles (Red Hen Press, 2015) and Other Countries (What Books Press, 2010), and a monograph on the artist Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Springhouse Journal, Best American Poetry 1996, Ambit, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature, Plume, Los Angeles Review, and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas and Plume.
