Event Recording
December 10, 2024
Octavio Quintanilla joins us to discuss The Book of Wounded Sparrows, which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry. In his second collection, Quintanilla explores themes of loss, hope, and the possibilities and limits of language and memory. Along with poet J. Bruce Fuller, director of Texas Review Press (TRP), we’ll discuss how the book came together including poems and original paintings, and the journey through publication and gaining public recognition.
As a case study of the path to publication, From Manuscript to Marketplace offers candid talks between an author and members of their publishing team about each step of the publication process: acquisition, editorial, marketing, and more.
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which has been longlisted for the American Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
J. Bruce Fuller is the author of How to Drown a Boy (LSU Press, 2024).His chapbooks include The Dissenter’s Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Best New Poets 2022, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow. He currently teaches at Sam Houston State University, where he is Director of TRP.
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