Irish-American Voices From the Southwest
Thursday, March 10, 2016
12:30 - 1:30 P.M.
Social Sciences & Business Building
University of Missouri–St. Louis
Renny Golden’s Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820-1880, University of New Mexico Press won the WILLA Literary Award 2011, was named a Southwest Notable Book of the Year 2012 and a Finalist for the New Mexico Book Award.  Golden is a Poetry Editor with Voices From the American Land.  
Published in: Water~Stone; International Quarterly; Literary Review; Dogwood; Main Street Rag; Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. Anthologized: Irish American Poetry from 18th Century to Present, (IN: Notre Dame Press). Pushcart nominee 2016. 
Lawrence Welsh has published nine books of poetry, including Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 (University of New Mexico Press).  Now in a second printing, this collection won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.  It was also named a Notable Book by Southwest Books of the Year and a finalist for both the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award.
A first generation Irish American and award-winning  journalist, Welsh’s work has appeared in more than 200 publications.  Born and  raised in South Central Los Angeles, he lives in El Paso, Texas.
Presented by the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professorship in Irish Studies,
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