Gregg Barrios and Ben Olguin to appear at San Antonio Book Festival

Gregg Barrios and B.V. Olguín have been selected as readers at this year’s Fourth Annual San Antonio Book Festival held on Saturday, April 2, 2016 from 10am-5pm at the Central Library and Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, TX.

Gregg Barrios will read from his recently published play I-DJ during his session. I-DJ is a story of Warren Peace aka Amado Guerrero Paz, a gay Mexican American youth who finds his calling as a DJ. He spins the soundtrack of his life on the dance floor by night and by day in a gay send-up of Shakesqueer’s Ham-a-lot set to a dub-step beat of ecstasy, tainted love, Rollerena and Herb Alpert. In addition to the reading, the cast of I-DJ will do a short performance from the play. Following the performance there will be a question and answer session followed by a book signing. This is the first time a playwright has been featured at the San Antonio Book Festival.

B.V. Olguín will read from his award winning poetry book, Red Leather Gloves during his session.  Red Leather Gloves takes us from the mean streets of the Houston’s barrios and dockside boxing stables into a dilapidated boxing arena deceptively named the Olympiad where men and boys reenact an ancient rite of passage in desperate pursuit of Olympic fame, title belts, and riches that will elude them all. Red Leather Gloves has won the 2015 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Award for Poetry, the 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Poetry Award, Silver Winner, and the 2015 Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry, Second place.

Books by Gregg Barrios

Books by B.V. Olguín