JAN 22, 2013
Carmen Calatayud's first poetry collection In the Company of Spirits was published in October 2012 as part of the Silver Concho Series by Press 53 andwas a runner-up for the 2010 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Gargoyle, La Bloga, Más Tequila Review, PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, Red River Review and Slow Trains. Her poems are anthologized in various collections, including Mondo Barbie(St. Martin's Press), DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press) and the upcoming Poetry of Resistance: A Multicultural Response to Arizona SB 1070 and Other Xenophobic Laws, to be published by University of Arizona Press in 2014. Carmen is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and recipient of a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowship. She is a poet moderator for Poets Responding to SB 1070, a Facebook group founded by poet Francisco X. Alarcón that features poetry and news about Arizona’s controversial immigration law that legalizes racial profiling, as well immigrant-related and human rights news. Born to a Spanish father and Irish mother in the U.S., Carmen works and writes in Washington, DC……