Poetry Reading: Oscar Mireles, Carmen Murguia, Roberto Rivera, and Richard Vargas *HYBRID*
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A reading featuring Oscar Mireles, Carmen Murguia, Roberto Rivera, and Richard Vargas in anticipation of the fourth volume of the I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin anthology, forthcoming this fall and concluding a series that now spans more than 3 decades. This is a series of anthologies, edited by Oscar Mireles, that demonstrates “the breadth and depth of Wisconsin’s Latino/a population. Not strangers, not new arrivals, these authors represent an important part of the region’s cultural and social fabric.”
Oscar Mireles is a published poet and editor. Mireles’ poetry has been published in over 50 different publications. Oscar has been writing poetry for the past 35 years. Mireles is the editor of three anthologies titled I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: 20 Hispanic Poets (Focus Communications, 1989); I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: 30 Hispanic Writers (Focus Communications, 1999); and I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: 3 Decades of Hispanic Writing (Cowfeather Press, 2014). He also produced a chapbook titled Second Generation (Focus Communications, 1985). Reviewer Tim Forkes writes ” the compilation stands as not only as a picture of Wisconsin’s Hispanic community… but also the latest of Mireles’ many contributions to society as a whole… he was the fire in the oven.” Oscar Mireles has received grants for his writing activities from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, Wisconsin Humanities Committee, Wisconsin 150th Sesquicentennial Commission, Madison Civic Center Foundation and Wisconsin Center for the Book. He received a fellowship to spend a month at the Vermont Studio Center, an artist colony.
A United States native, Carmen Alicia Murguía is an award-winning author, educator, and community builder. A graduate of the prestigious Loft Literary Center's "Inroads: Latino/Chicano Writers Program," in Minneapolis, MN, Carmen is the author of The Voices Inside, Carmen, The New Carmen (in this opera our heroine lives), Love: Poetry & A Short Story, and A Poem For All My People! Carmen appears in multiple anthologies and reviews, has read widely, and has conducted creative writing workshops across the United States of America.
Richard Vargas earned his B.A. at Cal State University, Long Beach, where he studied under Gerald Locklin and Richard Lee. He edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980, and twelve issues of The Mas Tequila Review from 2010-2015. Vargas received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, 2010, where he workshopped his poems with Joy Harjo. Published collections: McLife, 2005; American Jesus, 2007; Guernica, revisited, 2014; How A Civilization Begins, 2022, and leaving a tip at the Blue Moon Motel, 2023. A sixth book, The Screw City Poems, will be released in July 2025, Roadside Press. He currently resides in Wisconsin, near the lake where Otis Redding’s plane crashed. https://www.richardvargaspoet.com/
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