Urrea, Luis Alberto

Luis Alberto Urrea

October 14, 2021

Photographer

Paola Valenzuela

Readings from this author

October 14, 2021 - Angels & Devils: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea reads poems from The Tijuana Book of the Dead (2015) focused on life in the US-Mexico borderlands. He opens with one poem forthcoming in Piedra (2023) and concludes with a chapter from The House of Broken Angels (2019), retold from memory. This reading was presented as part of the 2021 Tucson Humanities Festival.

March 9, 1999 - Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea reads from Vatos (2000) and Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), along with a poem that would later be collected in The Tijuana Book of the Dead (2015).

October 9, 1996 - Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea reads from Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (1993), The Fever of Being (1994), Wandering Time: Western Notebooks (1999), and also from The Best American Poetry (1996).

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