This week we welcome Veronica Golos as our guest blogger.Veronica is the
author of Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner
of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award. An exploration of war and its
witnessing-from-afar, poems from Vocabulary
of Silence have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Indonesian and
Spanish.
She is also the author
of A Bell Buried Deep, co winner of
the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press), an re telling of the
biblical story of Sarah and Hagar, involving race, servitude, history, slavery,
and freedom, in a series of lyrical persona poems, to be re-issued by Tupelo
Press.
She is co-editor of the
Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, and
the Acquisitions Editor for 3:A Taos
Press.
She was Poet in
Residence at Sacred Heart Academy in Greenwich, CT in 2005, at the Nassau Museum
of Art, and Yaxche School in Taos, New Mexico. She has lectured on Teaching
Poetry to Children at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College and Colorado
State College. Golos’ work has been widely published and anthologized
nationally and internationally. She was
awarded residencies at the Wurlizter Foundation, awarded Creative Woman
Fellowship by A Room of Her Own, among others.
A lifelong activist for social justice, humanitarian and peace causes,
Golos uses her poetry not only to interpret and question but “to challenge and
act.” She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her husband, writer David Pérez.
Welcome, Veronica.
— sdh