The UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series was inaugurated in 1983 when Carolyn Forché read on a Friday afternoon to a room of 100 people. Over the years the series has hosted such writers as Mary Oliver, Ernest Gaines, Tobias Wolff, Karen Tei Yamashita, Evie Shockley, Denise Levertov, Alberto Ríos, Pat Mora, Diane Wakoski, Edward Hirsch, and many other poets and fiction writers who not only give public readings but also visit classes and meet with students about their writing. We’ve had as many as twelve readings by visiting writers in a year but have settled on three or four annually as an ideal number. This reading series is made possible through the generosity of our Donors.
Events
PIOTR FLORCZYK
October 11 at 7pm| UTSA Main Campus|University Room, Business Building 2.06.04
Piotr Florczyk is the author/translator/editor of more than two dozen books in English and in Polish. His honors include the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Found in Translation Award, and the Wislawa Szymborska Foundation Fellowship. His book of translations of poems by Jerzy Jarniewicz, Landless Boys, was recently nominated for the 2024 National Translation Award in Poetry. Florczyk teaches global literary studies at UW-Seattle, and lives with his family in Los Angeles.
EDDIE VEGA
November 1 at 7pm| UTSA Arts Cube at Blue Star|1518 S. Alamo St.
Eddie Vega is a poet, storyteller, spoken word artist, and educator. He is the author of Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and Somos Nopales (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and his poetry also appears along the San Pedro Creek Cultural Park. He is the editor of Asina is How We Talk, a collection of Tejano poetry. A Macondo Workshop Fellow, Vega directs the Mouth Dakota Poetry Project and currently serves as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Antonio.
AMY ENGLAND
March 21, 2025|7pm|TBD
Amy England’s most recent published books are Rooms Colors Dreams and For the Reckless Sleeper, both hybrid-genre, image-text collections published by American Letters & Commentary Press. Her previous poetry collections include Victory and Her Opposites: A Guide, and The Flute Ship Castricum (Tupelo Press). Her work has appeared in such journals as TriQuarterly, Chicago Review, Ohio Review, and McSweeney's. She teaches in the MFA In Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
