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Welcome to the first day of SJSU’s Legacy of Poetry Festival, presented by the Poets and  Writers Coalition.  

Student Union Theater, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. 

Enjoy an evening of readings in the Student Union Theater or on Zoom from SJSU Legacy of  Poetry by faculty, staff, alumni, and student poets. Plus special readings from university officials.  Featuring a special appearance by poet and memoirist; Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Prof. J. Michael Martinez reading from his forthcoming poetry book, Tarta Americana, to be published by  Penguin Poets. 

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Speakers and Their Stories: 

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s most recent book is Children of the Land: A Memoir (Harper Collins) which was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. He is also the author of the poetry book Cenzontle, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Prize (BOA editions 2018) and the FOREWORD INDIE bronze prize for best book of the year. He is a founding member of the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated all citizenship requirements from every major first book poetry prize in the nation and for which he received the Writers for Writers Award from Barnes and Noble and Poets and Writers Magazine. He was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. He was a 2022 guest editor for the Poem-A-Day project from the Academy of American Poets and currently teaches in the creative writing program at St. Mary’s University, and the Ashland Low-Res MFA Program. He is the proposed 2024 Lurie Visiting Author-in-Residence at SJSU.

J. Michael Martinez is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University. He is the author of three collections of poetry, including Heredities, which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Museum of the Americas, which was a winner of the National Poetry Series Competition and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry. He has a new poetry collection, Tarta Americana, forthcoming from Penguin Books in the fall.

 

The Legacy of Poetry Festival is supported by the College of Humanities & the Arts Artistic  Excellence Programming Grant and the MOSAIC Cross-Cultural Center. 

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