The Poetry Project

Raquel Gutiérrez

Raquel Gutiérrez is smiling, facing the camera, wearing a baseball cap that reads "Ugly But Honest."

Raquel Gutiérrez is a poet and arts writer working through ekphrasis as one way to reflect upon queer brown life in the arts in the Southwest borderlands. Raquel is a 2017 recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. They work in a range of topics that have continued to inform their writing and teaching, including critical race theory, queer aesthetics, rasquachismo, and performance art in the Americas. Their poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets's Poem-A-Day, Quarterly West, NPR Music, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, FENCE, Huizache, The Georgia Review, The Texas Review and Places Journal. Raquel’s first book of prose, Brown Neon, will be published by Coffee House Press in the Spring of 2022.

Raquel Gutiérrez es une poeta y escritore de arte que trabaja a través de la ekphrasis como una forma de reflexionar sobre la vida brown y queer en las artes en las zonas fronterizas del suroeste. En 2017 Raquel recibió la beca para escritores artísticos de Creative Capital y la Fundación Andy Warhol. Trabaja en una variedad de temas que han continuado informando su escritura y enseñanza, incluida la teoría crítica de la raza, la estética queer, el rasquachismo y el arte de performance en las Américas. Su poesía y ensayos han aparecido o se publicarán en Poem-A-Day, Quarterly West, NPR Music, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, FENCE, Huizache, The Georgia Review, The Texas Review, Places Journal y la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Su primer libro de prosa, Brown Neon, será publicado por Coffee House Press en la primavera de 2022.