Copies of the chapbook, Babies Under the Skin, will be available soon through the  www.thepanhandler.org, this website, Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA , Broadside Bookshop in Northampton, MA and other venues.
 

READINGS:

Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 4:00PM
at the Jones Library
with Nikki Finney, Lynn Thompson and Kim Rogers
Sponsored by Food For Thought Books, Everywoman's Center,  Perugia Press,
and the Jones Library
Amherst, MA


Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 9pm
reading from Babies Under the Skin
at Notsuoh
314 Main St.
Houston, TX

Thursday February 21, 2008 at 10:00AM
reading from Babies Under the Skin
at Palo Alto College
Student Center Annex
San Antonio, TX

Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 7:00PM (tentative)
featuring poetry from
The Weight of Addition,
an anthology of Texas Poetry
edited by Randall Watson
Covenant Church
4990 Caroline
Houston, TX

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:00PM
with Ellen Watson, author of This Sharpening
at Broadside Bookshop
Northampton, MA

Panhandler Publishing in pleased to announce that Laurie Ann Guerrero's Babies Under the Skin has been selected as winner of the first Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award.  The final judge for this contest was Naomi Shihab Nye. 

 Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.  Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Palo Alto Review, BorderSenses, Literary Mama, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Feminist Studies and others.  Returning to Texas in the summer of 2008, the two-time recipient of the Rosemary Thomas Poetry Prize lives temporarily in Northampton, MA with her husband and three children. Guerrero will receive her BA in English with special commendation as a Sophia Smith Scholar for completing two award-winning manuscripts (poetry & creative nonfiction) from Smith College in May 2008. 


Naomi Shihab Nye, the contest's final judge is the author of numerous books of poems including You & Yours (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, as well as 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002), Fuel (1998), Red Suitcase (1994), and Hugging the Jukebox (1982).  She received many awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, the International Poetry Forum, as well as four Pushcart Prizes.  In 1988, she received The Academy of American Poets' Lavan Award, selected by W.S. Merwin.  She currently lives in San Antonio.