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
   
   
   
    ________________________________ 
        President of the Senate
     
        I hereby certify that the
    above Resolution was adopted by
    the Senate on May 24, 2017.
   
   
   
    ________________________________ 
        Secretary of the Senate
   
   
   
    ________________________________ 
         Member, Texas Senate