(Thu) April 29, 2021, 4:00pm — 5:30pm
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Join us for the inaugural “Willow Poetry Reading Series” event at Clovis Community College! This event will feature a reading and discussion with award-winning poets Anthony Cody, Sara Borjas, and Joseph Rios. The reading is free, open to the public, and will take place virtually via Zoom.
For more information, contact English & Reading Instructor Von Torres via e-mail at von.torres@cloviscollege.edu
Anthony Cody a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, CA with lineage in both the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. He is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, April 2020), winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry, a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet, a 2020 Believer Magazine Editor’s longlist in Poetry nominee, a 2021 PEN/America Jean Stein Award finalist nominee, a 2020 L.A. Times Book Award in Poetry finalist nominee, as well as winner of a 2020 Southwest Book Award (Border Regional Library Association). His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Academy of American: Poets Poem-a-Day Series, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, among others. A graduate of the MFA-Creative Writing Program at Fresno State, he collaborates with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio and is an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press and poetry editor for Omnidawn. He currently teaches Ecopoetry at Fresno State.
sara borjas is a Xicanx pocha, is from the americas before it was stolen and its people were colonized, and is a Fresno poet. George Floyd. Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez. Lorenzo Perez. Xiaojie Tan. Say their names. Joyce Echaquan. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019 and won a 2020 American Book Award. Juanito Falcon. Breonna Taylor. Daoyou Feng. Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz. Sara was named one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets, is a 2017 CantoMundo Fellow, and the recipient of the 2014 Blue Mesa Poetry Prize. Hyun Jung Grant. Ahmaud Arbery. Suncha Kim. Sandra Bland. Soon Chung Park. Yong Ae Yue. She teaches innovative undergraduates at UC Riverside, believes that all Black lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized. Say their names. Justice for George Floyd and the countless others. She lives in and stays rooted in Fresno.
Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations, winner of the 2018 American Book Award and was named a notable debut poet by Poets and Writers Magazine. He is the recipient of fellowships from the University of Notre Dame, CantoMundo, and the Community of Writers. His poems can be found in Breakbeat Poets: LatiNext, Poem-A-Day, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley and is currently attending the low residency MFA program at Bennington College. He lives in Fresno, CA.
