“Living
in America: Voices and Visions”
Pat
Mora
Reading Monday, March 3, 2003
Award-winning author of poetry, nonfiction, and children’s books, Pat Mora promotes connecting communities through literature and literacy. A native of El Paso, the border city to which her grandparents came during the Mexican Revolution, she has published five volumes of poetry, a memoir, a collection of essays, and over twenty books for young readers. She is active in having April 30th celebrated as Dia de los ninos/Dia de los libros, a celebration of children, books, languages, and cultures.
The Washington Post described her acclaimed memoir House of Houses as “a textual feast . . . a regenerative act . . . and an eloquent bearer of the old truth that it is through the senses that we apprehend love.” She has been a recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowships. Among her other awards are the Ohioana Award, the Pellicer-Frost ’99 Bi-national Poetry Award, four Southwest Book Awards, and the Premio Aztlan Literature Award. Her most recent poetry collection is Aunt Carmen’s Book of Practical Saints. She has served as a consultant on U.S.-Mexico youth exchanges, a museum director, a university administrator, and an English teacher. The mother of three grown children, she divides her time between Santa Fe, NM and the Northern KY/Cincinnati area.
Bibliography
Poetry
Aunt Carmen’s Book of Practical
Saints (1997)
Agua Santa:
Holy Water (1995)
Communion (1991)
Borders (1986)
Chants (1984)
Non-fiction
House of Houses (1997—memoir)
Nepantla:
Essays from the Land in the Middle (1993)
Young Adult and Children’s Poetry
Love to Mama:
A Tribute to Mothers (2001)
My Own True Name:
New and Selected Poems for Young Adults (2000)
Delicious Hullabaloo:
Pachanga deliciosa (1998)
This Big Sky (1998)
Uno, Dos, Tres:
One, Two Three (1996)
Confetti:
Poems for Children (1996)
The Desert Is My Mother:
El desierto es mi madre (1994)
Young Adult and Children’s Prose
Maria Paints the Hills (2002)
A Library for Juana (2002)
The Bakery Lady (2001)
The Race of Toad and Deer (2001)
The Night the Moon Fell (2000)
The Rainbow Tulip (1999)
Tomas and the Library Lady (1997)
The Gift of the Poinsettia:
El regalo de la flor de nochebuena (1995)
Pablo’s Tree (1994)
Listen to the Desert (1994)
Agua, Agua, Agua (1994)
A Birthday Basket for Tia
(1992)