Lara Gularte

Portuguese American poet, Lara Gularte lives and writes in the Sierra Foothills of California where she is Poet Laureate Emerita of El Dorado County. Her most recent book of poetry, Fourth World Woman, was published by “Finishing Line Press. Her book, Kissing the Bee, about her California Portuguese pioneer ancestors was published by “The Bitter Oleander Press, and follows the emigration of her family from the Azores to Northern California during the late 1800’s. Vamberto Freitas of the University of the Azores says of her book, “This is a poetry testifying to our perpetual search for self.” Nominated for several pushcart prizes, find her work in national and international journals and anthologies.

She is affiliated with the Cagarro Colloquium: Azorean Diaspora Writers Project, at the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI), California State University-Fresno. Gularte is a teaching artist of creative writing at Mule Creek State Prison in California. She co-hosts poets and writers’ workshops at county libraries and is known for conducting Ekphrastic writing workshops at art galleries and other venues. She hosts a popular monthly reading series, Poetry of the Sierra Foothills, at “Chateau Davell Winery” in Camino California.

ISBN: 9789897356674

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