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Blood Sugar Canto: A Reading with Ire’ne Lara Silva

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Tue, Oct 6, 2026

5 PM – 6:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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An evening celebrating the 10th anniversary and a new bilingual edition of Blood Sugar Canto, a powerful hymn to life and to her own body by a "curandera-poet" struggling to transmute the fear and despair of diabetes into healing. ire’ne lara silva, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, FirstPoems, and the eaters of flowers, which won Gold for the 2025 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book (ILBA), a comic book, VENDAVAL, and two short story collections, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán, and the light of your body. ire’ne is the recipient of the ILBA 2025 Rising Stars Poetry Award, a 2025 Storyknife Writers Residency, the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award.

This talk is sponsored by the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Lecture Fund; Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies; Romance Languages and Literatures; Student Accessibility Office; and the Center for Multicultural Life.

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