{"id":99,"date":"2019-10-09T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:57:01","slug":"cindy-williams-gutierrez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/cindy-williams-gutierrez\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Williams Guti\u00e9rrez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grito-poetry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.grito-poetry.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Guti\u00e9rrez is inspired by the silent and silenced voices of history and herstory. Her new collection, <em>Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women<\/em>, was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor\u2019s Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship. She was selected by <em>Poets &amp; Writers Magazine<\/em> as a 2014 Notable Debut Poet for her poetry collection, <em>the small claim of bones<\/em> (Bilingual Press\/Arizona State University), which placed second in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in <em>Borderlands<\/em>, <em>Calyx<\/em>, Harvard\u2019s <em>Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion<\/em>, and UNAM\u2019s <em>Peri\u00f3dico de poes\u00eda<\/em>. Cindy received the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Drama for <em>Words That Burn<\/em>, a dramatization of the WWII experiences of conscientious-objector William Stafford, Japanese-American internee Lawson Inada, and Chicano Marine Guy Gabald\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cindy earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA Program with concentrations in Mesoamerican poetics, drama, and creative collaboration. She is a cofounder of Los Porte\u00f1os, Portland\u2019s Latino writers\u2019 collective, and the founder of El Grupo de \u201908, a Lorca-inspired, Northwest collaborative-artists\u2019 salon. Cindy has taught poetry to youth in every grade from K-12 through the Methow Arts Alliance, Portland Art Museum, Right Brain Initiative, and Writers in the Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CWG_001.jpg?resize=897%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CWG_001.jpg?w=897&amp;ssl=1 897w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CWG_001.jpg?resize=300%2C105&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CWG_001.jpg?resize=768%2C270&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CWG_001.jpg?resize=150%2C53&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.grito-poetry.com\/ Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Guti\u00e9rrez is inspired by the silent and silenced voices of history and herstory. Her new collection, Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women, was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor\u2019s Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship. She was selected by Poets &amp; Writers Magazine as a 2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}