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10th Annual Latino/a/x Book Festival

Lunch with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

2023-09-15 12:00:00 2023-09-15 13:00:00 America/Denver 10th Annual Latino/a/x Book Festival Rawlings (Main Branch) -

Friday, September 15
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-09-15 12:00:00 2023-09-15 13:00:00 America/Denver 10th Annual Latino/a/x Book Festival Lunch with our author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in the Ryals Room at the Rawlings Library - Registration Required Rawlings (Main Branch) -

Lunch with our author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in the Ryals Room at the Rawlings Library - Registration Required

Celebrating 10 Years!

Author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo will be at the Rawlings Library on September 15th at 12:00 pm for our 10 year anniversary of the Latino/a/x Book Festival.  Lunch will be provided in the Ryals Room, registration is required and space is limited.  Please RSVP at www.pueblolibrary.org or call 719-562-5600. 

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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Phone: 719-562-5600

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