SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 872
WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the
appointment of Carol Coffee Reposa as the 2018 State Poet
Laureate; and
WHEREAS, The Texas State Artist designations are awarded
to a select group of individuals to honor the exceptional quality
of their work and their outstanding commitment to the arts in
Texas; and
WHEREAS, A truly worthy recipient of this prestigious
distinction, Carol Coffee Reposa is the author of four highly
regarded volumes of poetry--At the Border: Winter Lights, The
Green Room, Facts of Life, and Underground Musicians--and her
poems, reviews, and essays have been accepted for publication in
such journals as the Atlanta Review, the Evansville Review, the
Texas Observer, and Southwestern American Literature; and
WHEREAS, Carol Coffee Reposa is the winner of the Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest, and she has earned the San
Antonio Public Library Arts and Letters Award, along with three
Fulbright-Hays Fellowships and three nominations for the
Pushcart Prize; a professor emerita at San Antonio College since
2010, she currently serves as the poetry editor of Voices de la
Luna, and she was recently elected to the Texas Institute of
Letters; and
WHEREAS, Widely admired for her immense talent, Carol
Coffee Reposa has made important contributions to her chosen
field of artistic endeavor, and in so doing, she has enriched the
cultural vitality of the Lone Star State; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 85th
Legislature, hereby congratulate Carol Coffee Reposa on her
selection as the 2018 State Poet Laureate and extend to her
sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for
Carol Coffee Reposa as an expression of high regard from the
Texas Senate.
Menéndez
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President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on May 24, 2017.
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Secretary of the Senate
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Member, Texas Senate