{"id":2543,"date":"2021-04-23T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2021-04-19T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:01:40","slug":"anaya-radio-tribute-social-media-takeover-featured-poet-damien-flores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/04\/23\/anaya-radio-tribute-social-media-takeover-featured-poet-damien-flores\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaya Radio Tribute & Social Media Takeover Featured Poet: Damien Flores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In partnership with KUNM\u2019s Generation Justice and Spoken Word Hour, the Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest presents a two-hour radio tribute to Mr. Anaya, \u201cA Celebration of Poets,\u201d on April 25 @7pm, 89.9 FM KANW, featuring local poets Hakim Bellamy, Damien Flores, Michelle Otero, Levi Romero, and Tanaya Winder. Each day this week, our poets will \u201ctake over\u201d our English Department Instagram and Anaya Lecture Facebook pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our featured poet is Damien Flores, who is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and two-time College Unions Poetry Slam Champion. His three published books include\u00a0Junkyard Dogs<\/em>,\u00a0El Cuento de Juana Henrieta<\/em>, and\u00a0A Novena of Mud<\/em>. He produces the monthly open mic and slam, Poetry & Beer, as well as the Southwest Showdown Poetry Slam and ABQ Slams Championship Tournaments. He is also a Radio Free America DJ and hosts the Spoken Word Hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow our\u00a0English Department Instagram<\/a> and Anaya Lecture Facebook<\/a> pages to find out more about Damien\u2019s work. You can also find Damien on his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In partnership with KUNM\u2019s Generation Justice and Spoken Word Hour, the Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest presents a two-hour radio tribute to Mr. Anaya, \u201cA Celebration of Poets,\u201d on April 25 @7pm, 89.9 FM KANW, featuring local poets Hakim Bellamy, Damien Flores, Michelle Otero, Levi Romero, and Tanaya Winder. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}