Herbario

Poetry · 2024–2025 FIRST PLACE IN POETRY · UTEP BILINGUAL CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS University of Texas at El Paso Herbario is a poetry collection recognized with First Place in Poetry at the 2024 UTEP Bilingual Creative Writing Awards and later published in Rio Grande Review. Herbario approaches memory through images of preservation, transformation, and the natural world. The poems move between personal experience, objects, bodies, and landscape, treating memory as something that can be collected and observed, but never fully preserved unchanged. The collection explores the fragile relationship between what remains and what is lost, allowing images to function as…

Tom Lea: Explorations in Landscape

Soundscape / Poetry Project · 2022 SOUNDSCAPE COMPOSITION Tom Lea Fellowship A soundscape project inspired by the work of El Paso artist Tom Lea, bringing together poetry, prose, and sound to explore landscape as a spatial and sensory experience. Tom Lea: Explorations in Landscape was created as part of the 2022 Tom Lea Fellowship, awarded by the Tom Lea Institute and UTEP’s College of Liberal Arts to Iliana Pichardo Urrutia. The project takes three works by Tom Lea as points of departure: the murals Pass of the North and Southwest, and the painting Great River of the North. Through poetry,…