K Blasco Solér is a doctoral candidate in the University of Florida's English program. She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Her poetry and literary criticism has been published in the Spring 2023 print edition of Rain Taxi, the July 2022 issue of Bristlecone, the September 2019 Wild Roof Journal, and Houston Poetry Fest 2018 Anthology.
K's current project is a collection of poetry that explores the concept of postmemory and ecological/ interspecies connection. Her manuscript was a 2023 finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She was recently awarded the 2023 Leslie Scalapino and 2022 kari edwards scholarships for experimental poetics and gender activism, and a Lighthouse fellowship for her engagement in the 2022-23 Poetry Collective, mentored by Carolina Ebeid. While attending Naropa, K served as a graduate teaching assistant for Michelle Naka Pierce's Embodied Poetics course and Jeffrey Pethybridge's Eco-Poetics course. She was privileged to chair the 2023 Spring Symposium panel discussion on Eco-Poetics featuring Abigail Chabitnoy, Saretta Morgan, and Jennifer Scappettone.
Other notable workshops and practicums K has attended include Landscapes Woven Skyward with Language: Contemporary Diné Spatial Poetics with Sherwin Bitsui, the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Practicum with Roberto Tejada, Cells Spill & Kin Can Open Lineages: Specimen, Species, Poetics of Relations with Eleni Sikelianos, a Writers in Community workshop led by Sara Veglahn and featuring Hoa Nguyen, and Grackle and Grackle's The Self as Bestiary led by former Gulf Coast managing editor Paige Quiñones.
Previously, K edited the manuscripts of Houston poet BGK, aka Glenn Burns, for her anthology of his early works titled Vast + Spacious. In 2011, K published a chapbook of poetry spanning 13 years of work titled The Molting of the Great Southern Brood, named after an emergent 13-year cycle of cicada.
K has been a featured poet on both KPFT and KTRU radio in Houston, TX. During her 10-year tenure in that vibrant literary scene, she performed during the Houston Poetry Fest at the UHD Willow Street Station, for four straight years with the Word Around Town poetry tour and in such venues as InPrint, AvantGarden, the Hardy Nance Gallery, Bohemeo's, The Artery, Rudyard's, The Secret Word, EAT Gallery, Khon's, NotsuoH, Talento Bilingüe de Houston, Boheme, and more.
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