Xicanx Poet, Essayist, Translator, and Artist. Author of Watcha @deepvellum All opinions are my own.
Houston
Joined April 2011
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From @profstalina, multidimensional exploration of art, identity, and consciousness, unveiling the experience of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, and Indigenous art through poetry and visual expression.
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ALT Watcha by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
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It was such a delight to accompany Forrest Gander and promote his three collections (BE WITH, TWICE ALIVE, KNOT & MOJAVE GHOST in one volume) in Mandarin Chinese translation, all from East China Normal University Press, on a two-week trip to Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing.
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IMMIGRANT, a poetry collection by Joaquín Zihuatanejo, translated into Nahuatl and Spanish by David Bowles.
Available February 16th, 2027.
Cover designed by David Benneworth-Gray.
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Saving Talento Bilingue de Houston's History & Future: Part of The Houston Text Fest Sat. Oct. 17, 10:30 am : conta.cc/4i1b6Su
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Vuelvo y vuelvo a este poema de Johan Mijail, QEPD
Comienza:
"Soy la auténtica Marilyn Monroe de Santo Domingo, la loca, la travesti del barrio...."
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If you want to be tossed by a wave of grief, try NOX. If you seek reinterpretation, check out Autobiography of Red. If you are on the hunt for a poet with 1,000 heads, “go with the” Float. If you have ever felt like you love what destroys you, pick up The Beauty of the Husband.
I’m a featured reader alongside Roberto Tejada and Icess Fernández Rojas this Friday at 6 PM at 5601 B Navigation Blvd. Thanks to Tony Díaz and Nuestra Palabra for the invitation to present at this Diverse Works event, the closing of NuestroWorld.
Thursday at 7 PM at @Basket_Two there will be a double book launch for poetry in translation. Join us!
Thursday at 7 PM at Basket Books & Art, join Lau Cesarco Eglin and me for our double book launch of our poetry translations. We’ll be joined by poet and translator Camilo Roldán. I hope to see you there!
@Drhr90 thought you might want to know about this translation event on Thursday!
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Houston Text Fest 2026 youtu.be/hUWXhpOYgN4?si=fcQz… via @YouTube
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Submissions open
from September 1–30, 2026
Señal Series Open Call for 2027
Señal is a chapbook series for contemporary Latin American poetry (by living authors) in translation. We are particularly interested in hearing from emerging translators. uglyducklingpresse.org/about…
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Link to buy the book: elmartillopress.com/product-…
Thanks for the shoutout about my most recent translation!
This book is a wild romp through a series of landscapes of devastation with Selena as a spiritual guide. I agree with the reviewer that book is not afraid of ugliness but never falls into despair. Felicidades to author and translator :) theliteraryunderground.org/b…
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This book is a wild romp through a series of landscapes of devastation with Selena as a spiritual guide. I agree with the reviewer that book is not afraid of ugliness but never falls into despair. Felicidades to author and translator :) theliteraryunderground.org/b…
My literary translation has its first review: theliteraryunderground.org/b…
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Coming soon, the fall 2026 edition of the Read / Write / Study Group! Focusing once again on Languaging / Trans. We will be bilingual again this year: Grupo para Leer / Escribir / Estudiar: Lenguar / Trans. DM if you have any questions. Register here: forms.gle/QUWhuW6DRBoAjmBm8
Thanks to Jered Mabaquiao for writing about our performances at the ASAP conference!
"The performance, readings, and experiences come together and ask us to be together. But this being-together takes some time—and this notion of time, as Pluecker teaches us, drawing from Lorenzo Thomas, “is a shifting liquid.” - Jered Mabaquiao asapjournal.com/node/communi…
