The creative writing program and English department at Mesa Community College are proud to welcome poet and translator Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for an evening of poetry and discussion on Thursday, October 26 starting at 6:00 p.m. This digital event can be accessed at this Zoom link using the pass code ‪768102. Any questions/concerns can be directed to Jeremy Broyles, jeremy.broyles@mesacc.edu. Please join us for a memorable evening with an award-winning writer who, “[i]n the spirit of Whitman…slips in silently to lie down between the bridegroom and the bride, to inhabit many bodies and many souls, between rapture and grief.” – DA Powell

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Children of the Land: a Memoir; Cenzontle, which was the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. prize; and Dulce, winner of the Drinking Gourd Prize. He is a founding member of the Undocupoets, which eliminated citizenship requirements from all major poetry book prizes in the U.S, and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers award. He was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at St. Mary’s University, and the Ashland Low-Res MFA Program, as well as poetry workshops for incarcerated youth in Northern California as the Yuba and Sutter County poet laureate.

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