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Columbia Writers Series: Claudia Castro Luna Reading

Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA, United States

Claudia Castro Luna is Poet Laureate of Washington State. She is the author of the Pushcart-nominated Killing Marías and This City. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, La Bloga, Dialogo and Psychological Perspectives, among others. Her non-fiction work can be read in several anthologies, including This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home. She is currently working on a memoir, Like Water to Drink, about her experience escaping the civil war in El Salvador.

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2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Joy Harjo

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Joy Harjo is a renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. Harjo is the author of nine books of poetry—most recently An American Sunrise—several plays and children’s books, and a memoir, Crazy Brave. She has received numerous prominent awards, including the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and 2015 Wallace Stevens Award. The Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, says: “Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are.” Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo earned her MFA at the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop and has taught Eng­lish, Cre­ative Writ­ing, and Amer­i­can Indi­an Stud­ies at numerous universities, while per­form­ing music and poet­ry…

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$90 – $355
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