Poetry Reading & Book Signing with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
The Virginia Tech Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presents Poetry Reading & Book Signing with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on Thursday, April 25, 2019 in the Grand Lobby at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech.
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated to the California central valley. As an AB540 student, he earned his B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan.
He is the author of Cenzontle, which was chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin, Jr. published by BOA editions in 2018. Cenzontle was awarded Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award for poetry and was listed among one of NPR's top picks of 2018. Cenzontle is also a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a FOREWORD INDIE Best Book of the Year Award finalist. His first chapbook, DULCE, was the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize published by Northwestern University press. His memoir, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020.
A graduate of the Canto Mundo Latinx Poetry fellowship, he has also received fellowships to attend the Vermont Studio Center and the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop. He teaches at the Ashland Low-Res MFA Program and teaches poetry workshops for incarcerated youth in Northern California.
His work has been adopted to opera through collaboration with the composer Reinaldo Moya and has appeared or been featured in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Academy of American Poets, PBS Newshour, Fusion TV, Buzzfeed, Gulf Coast, New England Review, People Magazine, and Indiana Review, among others.
Links:
• https://www.marcelohernandezcastillo.com
• https://www.twitter.com/marcelo_H_
• https://www.instagram.com/chelo_castillo88/
The evening will also be host to the presentation of the Emily Morrison Award Winners in Poetry and Fiction. The Morrison Awards are an annual contest for current MFA students in Creative Writing sponsored by the Morrison Family in memory of their daughter, Emily Morrison.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Books will be for sale on location at the reading.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/TKZ8OZo.jpg.
For more information, visit: https://vtcwmfa.tumblr.com/readings or https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechMFA/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/2131840117107442/.
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