Roberto Tejada

Roberto Tejada is the award-winning poet and author of art histories that include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Minnesota, 2009) and Celia Alvarez Muñoz (Minnesota, 2009), with catalog essays in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011) and Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon (The Menil Collection; Yale, 2021). His poetry has appeared in several full-length volumes, including Why the Assembly Disbanded (Fordham, 2022), Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), and Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), with selected poems in Spanish translation, Todo en el ahora (Libros Magenta, 2015), along with a Latinx poetics of the Americas, Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi, 2019). He founded and co-edited Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, a multi-lingual journal of poetry and translation (1991-2014). A translator, editor, and cultural critic, Tejada's writing addresses the political imagination and impurity of time in shared image environments; configurations of art, life, and language inclined to the future. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Poetry (2021) and the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston where he teaches Creative Writing and Art History.