04/22/2026
Mark your calendars! The next Living Writers Series, featuring Blas Falconer, will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29 in LL-430!
Blas Falconer will share poems from his newest book, "Rara Avis." Of the collection, Oliver de la Paz raves, “Falconer’s tender and wise poems are gentle reminders that we move forward because we are called to those we love. We move forward because we see in the periphery, the past still holds us in its care.”
Blas Falconer is the author of "Rara Avis" (Four Way Books 2024), winner of the Thom Gunn Award; "Forgive the Body This Failure" (Four Way Books, 2018); "The Foundling Wheel" (Four Way Books, 2012); "A Question of Gravity and Light" (University of Arizona Press, 2007); and "The Perfect Hour" (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006). He is also a co-editor for "The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity" (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and "Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Falconer’s awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry, and the Barthelme Fellowship. He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University, where he serves as the editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online.
