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Alejandro Aguirre
About
Poet Alejandro Aguirre is an MFA candidate at Boston University. In 2023, he judged Poetry's annual prizes. He has also served as editor in chief at Tea Literary & Arts Magazine and poetry editor at Clinch Literary Magazine. As an undergrad at the University of Florida, Alejandro received the Samuel "Bud" Shorstein Creative Writing Award. He was twice a finalist for the Atlanta Review's Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets and received honorable mention for Lyric Magazine's College Poetry Contest. His poems are published/forthcoming in Rattle, Louisiana Literature, I-70 Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, and elsewhere.
Image courtesy of Cat Wofford.
- Mon, Apr 24GainesvilleApr 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – Apr 25, 2023, 7:00 PMGainesville, 401 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601, USAApr 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – Apr 25, 2023, 7:00 PMGainesville, 401 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601, USASupport young poets on Saturday, April 15th, 3-5 PM as judges (including Alejandro Aguirre) inaugurate North Central Florida’s first Youth Poet Laureate. This event will include a poetry reading by the Youth Poet Laureate finalists and is free and open to the public.
- Fri, Apr 14GainesvilleApr 14, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT – Apr 15, 2023, 9:00 PM EDTGainesville, 513 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601, USAApr 14, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT – Apr 15, 2023, 9:00 PM EDTGainesville, 513 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA“The Poetics of Resistance in Gainesville and the States” will explore the place of poetry in response to a history of segregation. Following a discussion of examples from Natasha Trethewey, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Jericho Brown, Aguirre will lead patrons in composing a collaborate poem.
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