2016-17 POET LAUREATE OF TEXAS 


2014-16 POET LAUREATE OF San Antonio 

PAST EVENTS


2025


​12 April (postponed)

San Antonio Book Festival
Moderator: “Jailbreak of Sparrows with Martín Espada.” 

San Antonio, TX


10 April 6pm
10th Anniversary Celebration

San Antonio Poetry Archive

Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX

26 March

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference 
Panelist: “Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto Gonzalez.”

Los Angeles, CA


19 March 12pm

The Writing & Thinking Institute at San Antonio College 
“On Writing San Antonio"

San Antonio, TX

7 March

ARCO (Activating Reading Communities Association)

Reading “Places We Call Home” Latino Poetry Anthology

Dallas, TX

 
2024

24 February

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference
Panelist: “Heroic Crowns: On the Values of Difficulty and Dazzle” 
St. Louis, MO
 
2023


28 January  
Southern Humanities Conference

Keynote: "Here is My City"
San Antonio, TX


4 March

​Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference
Panelist: Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry

Seattle, WA


2022

17 August 7pm CST (virtual event)
THE BIG TEXAS READ (video)
moderated by Xelena Gonzalez
presented by Writing Workshops Dallas & Gemini Ink
San Antonio, TX

7 December 7pm CST (virtual event)
TEXAS POETRY ROADSHOW 
with 2022 Texas Poet Laureate, Lupe Mendez
Houston, TX

10 December 2pm CST (virtual event) 
​Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry
with Dr. Ruben Quesada & Daniel Borzutzky
Presented by Woodland Pattern & Brenda Cardenas
Milwaukee, WI


2021


4 November  

Tom Sanders Memorial Reading (with Carl Marcum-video)

University of Arizona Poetry Center

Tucson, AZ 


28 August 4:30pm CST 

MENSA 2021 World Gathering

Houston, TX


​17 August 10:30am 
Texas A&M University-San Antonio 

Convocation
San Antonio, TX


10 August 7pm EST ( virtual event)
Alumnae Reading

Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College
Northampton, MA 


​​TBA (in-person event)
I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake 
Book Launch Party @ Texas A&M-San Antonio


3 May 2pm PST/4pm CST (virtual event)
40 IN THEIR 40S: WOMEN POETS OF THE AMERICAS
Presented by Loyola Marymount University


1 May  3pm EST/2pm CST (virtual event)
Paper, Water, Fire: Speaking Poetically for Ourselves
with Nikky Finney & Myriam J. A. Chancy
20th Anniversary Celebration for Meridians 
Meridians, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, provides a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in U.S. and international contexts.


25 April 3pm CST (virtual event)

Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival

Aztlan Libre Press Author Showcase


15 April 6pm CST(virtual event)
Young Women's Leadership Academy
Poetry Party: Grades K-3


12 April 7pm CST (virtual event)
Denton Public Library


10 April 4pm CST (virtual event)

Laurie Ann Guerrero in Conversation with Martín Espada
San Antonio Book Festival


6 April  1:10pm CST (virtual event)

San Diego City College

I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: Laurie Ann Guerrero in conversation with M. Paul López

WORLD CULTURES PROGRAM (article)



​​2020


​8 OCTOBER 7:00pm (virtual event)
Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series 
Presented by Westminster College

Salt Lake City Utah

6 OCTOBER 7:30pm (virtual event)
Book Launch and Alumna Poetry Reading Celebrating the Publication of The Map of Every Lilac Leaf: Poets Respond to the Smith College Museum of Art

28 SEPTEMBER 6:30 pm 
I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake 
Presented by Mexican American Student Association at Texas A&M-San Antonio, TX


20 September 6:30am (virtual event)
Wingword Poetry Prize Award Ceremony

New Delhi, India