Art writer, historian, poet—arguments in the cross-cultural image environment.

Joined April 2011
Roberto Tejada retweeted
Carbonate of Copper, by Roberto Tejada #NewRelease ow.ly/n0X350VrtT0
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Thanks to @fullforeground for the generous blurb for my forthcoming book Watcha: “Watcha ignites the poetic imagination with its self-defining ‘photographic progression’ of bilingual experience in sight and sound. At the interface where speech impersonates the attributes of
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In his review of Roberto Tejada's "Why the Assembly Disbanded", Jacob Ahana-Laba carefully examines the tensions between assembly and assimilation in Tejada's collection. Read more here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/.../i-as…
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Roberto Tejada retweeted
Grateful to @jeremylybarger for inviting me to write about Roque and the dark angels he wrestled with in his Poemas clandestinos.
"Those who take action in the streets to defend their livelihoods and humanity against never-wealthy-enough corporate overlords have common cause with the anti-capitalist revolutionary Roque Dalton." @estherlallen on the iconic Salvadoran poet poetryfoundation.org/article…
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➡ arrow as arrow⬅ Broadside Portfolio #1 featuring poetry by Will Alexander, Wendy Lotterman, Roberto Tejada, Kim Lyons, Roberto Harrison, Kirsten (Kai) Ihns, Hannah Brooks-Motl, Tongo Eisen-Martin. Art by Luke Daly. arrowasaarow.com/2023/06/07/…
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📣🥁*drumroll please* The one and only US POET LAUREATE ADA LIMÓN will be reading in Houston tomorrow night, Monday 3/6!!! Also featuring a conversation with UHCWP's own @fullforeground!! Tickets are available through @InprintHouston... this event is not to be missed! ✨
This Women's History Month, come meet the first Latina U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón! $5 tickets at inprint.org.
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Congratulations to Joshua Escobar awarded The Bo Huston Prize 2023. 🪅 💫🪅 💫 noemipress.org/catalog/akril…
Replying to @FellowSeries
Thank you @fullforeground Roberto Tejada for nominating Joshua Escobar for The Bo Huston Prize 2023. Deep thanks to all of the nominators and nominees (for @dan_carmell and Matthew Stadler)
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👉🏽 Heartfelt thanks to Henk Rossouw @henkross who in @worldlittoday exacts Why the Assembly Disbanded's foreboding in the face of “divide and conquer” and the troubling of “the relationship between art and belonging.” @FordhamPress worldliteraturetoday.org/202…
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“Implicit in the poems that follow is the knowledge that the body count since the resurgence of white supremacy—in the aftermath of colonizing the Americas—has become unbearable."
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/… @estherlallen at @LAReviewofBooks tells of the Anglosphere’s repeated tendency towards “epistemic exclusion," of PEN America’s rewritten narrative told in an exhibit at the New York Historical Society
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——sober reminder of PEN International's ongoing advocacy “writers have their own special sort of political creativity—different from that of a government or a corporation—and that a bond among them, across linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries, would benefit the world.”
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November 18 2022 Lawndale Art Center / 4912 Main St. Houston, TX 77002 / 7 00 pm CDT - Bilingual Spanish-English reading with Roberto Tejada, José Peña Loyola, Valentina Jager, Nicholas Rattner, and Vanessa Beatriz Golenia gulfcoastmag.org/events/read…
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How do other small presses feel about Hachette v. Internet Archive? I side with @internetarchive culturally and politically, and I hope they win the legal arguments. Free public circulation of eBooks improves our ability to support writers, financially as well as culturally.
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The legal foundation of @HachetteBooks's attack on @internetarchive is the exclusive rights contract. They can claim to defend author's rights because authors signed all their rights away. Bad move. Authors: use nonexclusive rights contracts. Keep your work in circulation.
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The shell game @HachetteBooks, @penguinrandom et. al. play is their claim to protect the rights of authors. But is that really the case? Whose interests are served by criminalizing @internetarchive? Do other small presses agree with Hachette's premise that IA hurts authors?
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👉🏽 To celebrate his Open Letters, the Broodthaers Society of America asked sixteen American artists and writers to compose "new" open letters, taking up the mantle of speaking to the world now, in 2022. mailchi.mp/broodthaers/rober… broodthaers.us/index.php?id=…
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