Intersectional Latinidad: A Poetry Workshop

There are 30 seats available for this workshop. RSVPs must be placed through the San Marcos Public Library. 

RSVP here: https://sanmarcostx.libcal.com/event/13116589

Workshop Description: Co-led by Diamond Braxton (Founder of Abode Press) and SG Huerta (Senior Poetry Editor and author of Last Stop), this workshop will focus on what it means when our Latinidad intersects with other parts of ourselves, such as queerness, Black identity, mixed-race identity, feminism, transness, disability, activism, and class, and how to welcome all parts of ourselves in our writing. In addition, we look beyond ourselves and connect to the ancestors who share our intersections, welcome them into the space, and write alongside them. We will look at the works of multi-identity Latinx poets from the new Latino Poetry anthology. As a result of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to generate new work in the genre they write in and have the chance to share should they choose to do so. This program is sponsored by the San Marcos Public Library, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Library of America.

About the Presenters: 

SG Huerta (they/he/el) is a queer Xicanx writer from Dallas. A 2023 Roots Wounds Words Fellow and 2024 Tin House Winter Workshop alum. SG is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Things We Bring with Us (Headmistress Press 2021) and Last Stop (Defunkt Magazine 2023), and the forthcoming nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press 2025). Their work has appeared in Barrelhouse, Honey Literary, The Offing, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. They also write a newsletter on all things trans &/or literary at transpoetica.substack.com. Find them at sghuertawriting.com, or in Texas with their partner and two cats.

Diamond Braxton (she/they) is a queer, mixed-race Black-Xicanx writer, editor, and educator based in Texas. She has work forthcoming or published in Best Microfiction 2023, Sundress Publication's Best of the Net anthology, The Forge, The Hellebore, Foglifter, Stanchion, and others. They are a Tin House and Lambda Literary Alum and are currently in the MFA program at Texas State where they are working on a collection of genre-bending Texan stories. She is the Founder and Director of Abode Press, a 501(c)3 nonprofit publishing press based in the American South dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices. Learn more at www.diamondgizellebraxton.com.