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Essential Voice: Episode Two
March 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Join us for a reading and conversation with Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, author of Centzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment and other titles for Episode Two of Essential Voice, a FlowerSong Series.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
7:30 PM 8:30 PM
TEDx Speaker Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, a singer-songwriter, teacher and author from Mission, Texas, is a Navy veteran and a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. García has been selected as the 2023 McAllen Poet Laureate. He is one of the founders of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. García earned an MFA in Creative Writing from UTRGV and is working on a Ph.D. in Language, Diversity, and Literacy Studies at Texas Tech Unviersity. His books include the #1 bestsellers You Know What I’m Sayin’?,
Centzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment, as well as the #1 bestselling e-book Pet Names. He’s presently at work on a children’s poetry manuscript. His work has also been included in numerous anthologies, such as Cutthroat: Contemporary Chicanx, Living Beyond Borders Poetry of Resistance: Voices For Social Justice, ¡Juventud! Growing up on the Border, I SING: The Body, Good Cop/Bad Cop, among others. He may be found on social media at @poetmariachi.