Join us for an evening with poets Carmen Giménez Smith and Laurie Ann Guerrero.

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, and four poetry collections—Milk and Filth; Goodbye, Flicker; The City She Was; and Odalisque in Pieces. Milk and Filth was a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. She recently co-edited the anthology Angels of the Americplyse: New Latin Writing. A CantoMundo Fellow, she is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press. She teaches in the creative writing MFA program at New Mexico State University.

Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Laurie Ann Guerrero is the author of Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2007), A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (Notre Dame 2013) and the forthcoming A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre 2015). Her honors include the 2012 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, 2013 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and a 2014 International Latino Book Award. She holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. Poet-in-Residence at Palo Alto College, she lives and writes in the Southside of San Antonio.