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Designed by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/b5ecaf30-edc1-46d2-8c95-79a451ab467f/Screenshot+2026-02-03+at+2.50.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Publications - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/4ab99dff-fae4-46b5-a3b3-944e53c62a45/Screenshot+2024-02-10+at+2.23.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Publications - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/cd74ff1c-920b-486f-90ec-138a3ce24509/Screen+Shot+2022-09-20+at+9.43.49+AM.png Publications - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/9db302dc-4fa8-4216-a1bf-0dbaf4a588e0/VAV-Witcher-Essay Publications - Make it stand out “You might be thinking, It’s a video game. It’s really not that serious. And maybe that’s true, but as with any story, it’s what we bring with us that’s serious. I read the game through the screen of my pain as it reflected back my own monstrosity: Mexican womanhood is a state of powerlessness, where suffering and forgiveness are idealized in the form of the Mary, and grief and rage are made monstrous in La Llorona — two myths forged in relationship to men.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1623699393571-QDWJ7F97XW80VXH4FQ8O/La-Cancion-OA Publications - Make it stand out “And what I experienced as poetry came first through the song my father wrote for me when I was two years old, a song whose melody is a turning helix in my blood, another way of speaking my name. Do you have a song like that, written for you? It is the rarest gift I have ever received. 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Noemi Press, Akrilica Series, 2017. Cover Design: Natalie Eilbert, Interior Design: Sarah Gzemski Paperback, 100 pp. September 21, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-934819-65-4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1554108655595-0ISMRJEW4HIH46ESFLPZ/WhitingQuote1.jpg Beast Meridian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1576015915009-FZ3306GZ5K53DX6MJO7H/BMAppears.png Beast Meridian https://vanessaangelicavillarreal.com/events daily 0.75 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/8d1ae1e4-48e8-4254-8719-9288bd3ca122/VAV-Peony-Logo.png Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1583801060022-GAXE5VPQITRSHM76DHUW/Migrant-Justice-Social.jpg Events Was honored to be the head organizer of the Los Angeles event for the national Writers for Migrant Justice readings, raising funds to reunite separated migrant families. Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA. September 4, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1583754479179-L1YHO9RVYUTU4BA9MX9Z/94F424DB-6330-42FC-8DA1-6ECAA750711D.jpeg Events With Natalie Diaz’ gorgeous MFA students at ASU at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Tempe, AZ, April 12, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1583755482968-6T15K6W5WK40DAHPF1E0/1B53CE67-6D84-463F-A371-CB1834B175A9.jpeg Events I signed the wall at The Strand Bookstore in New York City! March 21, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1583770854519-PS0DKM2QIF20G699HDWQ/259980A4-9D02-4C67-8819-7FA480C07D2D.jpeg Events Giving a reading at Otis College of Art and Design and talking about poems as reorganizing time, reality, and colonial consciousness. Just normal poetry things. (Photo credit and thanks to Marisa Matarazzo.) December 4, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1583795227330-RVX5C8IQJG1RMGMY3ILK/FA27917E-96BD-4362-AFAE-24280F108167.jpg Events One of the most special readings of my entire life, saving the world from white capitalist heteropatriarchy at “Women Poets of Color Write the Future,” with (right to left) Kimiko Hahn, Morgan Parker, me, and the generous genius of Victoria Chang as moderator, at Beyond Baroque. Venice, CA. November 17, 2018. (Photo credit and thanks to hero poet Jordan Nakamura.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5571fb32e4b0cd72664f7a9b/1583795670067-WZ2BTKX1V2PG2JJ2GVC2/D9EB95FD-D6C2-4DFF-81C7-F7E69F3527BF_1_201_a.jpeg Events Indebted to Carmen Gimenez Smith, Suzi F. Garcia, and Francisco Aragon for this moment. AKRILICA Reading by Noemi Press and Letras Latinas with Carolina Ebeid and Manuel Paul López at the The Poetry Foundation. Chicago, IL. 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