Celebrating YELLOW FLAG POEMS Release
ARTS ALIVE SAN ANTONIO’s readers will remember our poetry series Life in the Time Of COVID-19 that started with one poem we loved and felt it needed to be published. Over a year, the series grew into an eloquent poetic testimonial of the pandemic time and experience, that became quite popular with our readers. The book features many well-known poets, including eight poets laureate.
That series is now an anthology renamed YELLOW FLAG POEMS. On Sunday, April 24, it was officially introduced to the world at a celebratory event at the beautiful San Antonio Art League and Museum. Not all poets in the book could be there in person as a good number of featured poets live far from San Antonio, like in Canada, Denver, Oklahoma, California and other distant places. Still, most of them were there, including several from Austin. Our entire first-printing batch of books was sold out, but more books will be printed soon, and we will let you know how to get them.
We are grateful to the poets who made this book a “historic” one, in the words of poet and professor Natalia Trevino. We also want to thank the San Antonio Art League and Museum for hosting the book launch, and a big thank-you to all our readers. We intend to donate a copy of the book to every public library in San Antonio.
Here are a few photos from Sunday. (Photos by Vanessa Wellinghoff)
So honored to be a poet in this anthology. It’s a magical read. Thank you, Jasmina, for gathering poems and editing the book.
What a beautiful book. I am honored to be in the collection, and I was excited to be in the Sunday reading launch at this beautiful space.
Amazing collection and reading. Thank you Jasmina for putting the hard work into matching the poems with images and art. Truly this is a gift to the literary world. Honored to have helped you begin this journey but the artistry of the Yellow Flag Poems belongs to you.
Lisha Adela García