Library Guides: San Antonio Poetry Archive at Palo Alto College: Fernando Esteban Flores Collection

Born in Laredo, Texas, Fernando Esteban Flores is a distinguished Texas-born poet, author, and respected educator based in San Antonio, where he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Flores taught in various secondary schools in San Antonio, and was recognized multiple times as Teacher of the Year, including the 2008 South San Antonio ISD award. He also received 2 ExCEL awards for excellence in teaching from KENS 5-TV. As a poet, Flores has published three notable collections, Ragged Borders, Red Accordion Blues, and BloodSongs. His works have been featured in various publications, including the Texas Observer and the SA Express-News. Flores serves as the poetry editor for the Catch the Next Journal of Pedagogy & Creativity and is the founder of the literary group "Voces Cósmicas." His contributions to the arts have earned him several honors, including the 2019 Arts & Letters Award and an ELLA Award from the San Antonio Public Library, and for his poem, "Song for America V (Yo Soy San Antonio)," which was selected to commemorate the city's Tricentennial anniversary in 2018.

Scope and Content Note

Series 1: Writings

Series 2: Publicity and Photographs

Arrangement

Arranged by series, then chronologically.

Restrictions

Use: The collection is open for research

Access: Access to the collection is available by appointment only. Please contact archivist to make an appointment

Administrative Information

Copyright: Copyright maintained by the original authors

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Fernando Esteban Flores Collection, SAPA-003. San Antonio Poetry Archive, San Antonio, Tx.

Processing Information:

Published items, including books and anthologies, were separated from the archival collection and sent to special collections. Items are findable using the library catalog with a public note indicating their origin.

Processed by Sara Schmidt (June 2016; August 2025)

Finding Aid by Sara Schmidt (July 2016; August 2025)

Inventory

Writing, Published - Serials, Newspapers

Box Folder Contents Dates

1 1 The Texas Observer, May 31, 1996

1 2 Tejano conjunto festival 2011 program

Tejano conjunto festival en San Antonio 2012 program

Tejano conjunto festival 2013 program

Tejano conjunto festival 2014 program

Tejano conjunto festival 2015 program (poem on p. 25)

1 Series- Voces cosmicas Poetry purrs like a cat well fed & curled around a good idea

OS CB1 “At El Camaroncito Night Club” broadside

Writings-Unpublished and drafts.

1 3 “Red Accordion Blues.” Printer’s draft, 10-9-2006.

Ragged Borders: Poems by Fernando Esteban Flores. Draft. c. 1996

Publicity and Programs

1 4 San Antonio Inter-American Book fair and literary festival at the Guadalupe Theater, Oct. 7-10. 1993

Pamphlet- Shoot for the moon cosmic poetry 2 copies

Pamphlet -Fernando Esteban Flores author of red accordion blues poetry reading

Houston Poetry Fest 2000 Program

Post card- La sangre mara public reading

Pamphlet -Memorial library Voces Cosmicas a celebration of poetry/ Spoken word

Separated Items

Periodicals

Desahogate: Growing Up Xicana/o. Volume 1 No. 1
Huehuetitlan, Nu. 11, Oct. 1991
The Red Palm, April 1994
The Red Palm, May 1994 The Red Palm, Nov./Dec. 1995
The Red Palm, Mar./Apr. 1996
The Red Palm, July/Aug. 1996
Red Palm, Summer 1997
Red, Palm, 1998
“The Thing Itself,” Our Lady Of The Lake University, Issue 42, Spring 2015
Rivers edge volume XIII No.1

Monographs

Wild Turkey, A Literary Review. Volume 7 of the Maverick Press, April 1995.
Terrapin, A Literary Review. Volume 8 of the Maverick Press, Nov. 1995
Armadillo, A Literary Review. Volume 11 of the Maverick Press, April 1997.
Houston Poetry Fest Anthology 1993
Houston Poetry Fest anthology 1994
Houston Poetry Fest 2000 Anthology
Guadalupe and the Kaleidoscopic Screamer by Sheila Sanchez Hatch. Introduction by Fernando Esteban Flores. 1996.