Laura Villareal

Laura Villareal reads her poem “After the tornadoes touchdown” from Shō No. 4. “So much in American life is crafted to wear us down.”— Laura Villareal Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving, (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) was awarded Texas Institute of Letters’ John A. Robert Johnson Award for a …