Raquel Gutiérrez
I'm just finding my bearings here now! Author of Southwest Reconstruction (Noemi Press, 2025) & Brown Neon (Coffee House Press, 2022), writer/critic/educator, South/West Coast Chill & desert enthusiast.
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezMark your calendars! Noemi authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @raquefella.bsky.social are reading alongside Gabrielle Civil and Taneum Bambrick at North Figueroa Bookshop on Thursday, February 26th!
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezThanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for reviewing Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social! Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781955992695
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezWe've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezYou and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezShoutout to Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social for being amongst Itasca's top 10 titles for December 2025!
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezDon't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm... @twolinespress.com
- Nice weekly roundup with @theborderchronicle.bsky.social's Melissa Del Bosque and Caroline Tracey, with a mention of my new poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction. substack.com/@melissadelb...
- Reposted by Raquel Gutiérrez"You have to learn to write when you don't want to." @raquefella.bsky.social answers 10 questions from @pw.org about the writing process behind their debut poetry collection Southwest Reconstruction, out now. Read the full interview here: www.pw.org/content/ten_...
- Such a privilege to be edited by AC. Gracias por todo, compa!
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- Just got my author copies of ⚡️Southwest Reconstruction⚡️, my poetry debut with @noemipress.bsky.social, out tomorrow, Dec 2. 10 years in the making, y'all. Find it at an online bookstore near you.
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- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezAre you ready for our final release of the year? You don’t want to miss Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, a “lyrical, elegiac, fiercely alive and existing at the cultural intersections of a settler mestizaje,” out December 2!
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezFrom Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, out tomorrow!
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezNoemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson! Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social, Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social
- My profile on beloved poet Richard Siken is up at Poetry Foundation. Hope you'll check it out! www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezNew interview up Poets dot org poets.org/text/enjambm...
- Reposted by Raquel GutiérrezIf you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
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- I organized 3 L.A. OMNIBUS events for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. Save the dates: March 13, March 27, and April 24. First up: TREN AL SUR, feat. CAROLINA MIRANDA! Read more here ⤵️ cap.ucla.edu/event/la-omn...
- This program for the TUMBADOS SYMPOSIUM looks AMAZING. LA 🤝 NYC, baby. (presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union). Míralo! storefront.nyc/program/tumb...
- I spoke with NPR/Las Cruces (KRWG-fm) reporter @scottbrocato.bsky.social ahead of my reading tomorrow at NMSU. A tinely chat, check it out: www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...
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- If you haven't done so, get thee a protonmail account now. Going to pull myself from Google's saltwater taffy grip by the end of this week/month if it's the last thing I do...
- I could really use a Costco-branded photo-sharing platform where I can stay in touch w/friends and let folks know when I'm reading poetry in public, hbu?
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