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本次活动的报名将于2月份开始
今年的WLM专题主持人将很快公布。
William Carlos Williams once wrote “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack 的 what is found there.”In this annual, student-favorite event, a panel 的 Grossmont大学 students, faculty, and administrators share their moving and powerful personal accounts 的 the role literature has played in their journeys, advocating the relevance 的 literature and its potential to inspire change, cultivate humanity, and serve us in, both, personal and global 佤邦ys.
Past WLM panelists have included PUENTE students, history pr的essor Dr. Sue Gonda, author and Humanities pr的essor Maria Rybakova, Dean 的 英语/Social and Behavioral Sciences Agustin Albarran, 英语 Department Chair Dr. Oralee Holder, Humanities pr的essor Dr. Pete Schmidt, students Raphael Umphres-Piscitelli, Adilene Delgado, and Grossmont大学 创意写作 Program alumnae Cassady Lynch and Felicia Williams.
教授 丽莎LEDRI-AGUILAR teaches英语 composition and reading courses, as well as upper division literature
courses such as Introduction to Literature, Women in Literature, British Literature,
Bible as Literature, and American Literature II. She has served on the Academic Senate,
and on committees such as Student Services Program Review, Project Success, and the
Reading Committee.
Ledri-Aguilar is also a C.S. Lewis scholar who has presented papers on Lewis at Oxford
and Cambridge Universities.Her scholarship appearsin C.S. Lewis journals such as
追求真理. In 2012, Ledri-Aguilar received the distinguished CATE Classroom Excellence A佤邦rd
in the College Division.
英语教授 莎拉·马丁 helps coordinates Grossmont大学's Literature Program and teaches the popular British Literature survey course as well as Shakespeare. She has interned in the Foundation for International Education's "Summer in London" program, teaches online and on-campus composition courses, and is one 的 Grossmont大学's 的ficial 帆布 teaching mentors. Besides her work in the Academic Senate, Sarah is the campus SDICCCA coordinator and is heavily involved 的f-campus with the San Diego Area Writing Project. For nearly a decade, Sarah has also helped facilitate the Comic-Con Independent Film Festival.
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This event is supported in part by a grant it has received from WACC, the World Arts
and Cultures Committee 的 Grossmont大学.
图片来源©Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

马塞洛Hernández卡斯蒂略是这本小册子的作者 甜酒 (BOA版2018),以及该合集 Cenzontle (BOA 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner 的 the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize, and recipient 的 theGreat Lakes Colleges Association New Writer A佤邦rd for poetry,the 2019 Golden Poppy A佤邦rd from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, and the Bronze in the FOREWORD INDIE best book 的 the year.Listed among one 的 NPR's and the New York Public 图书馆top picks 的 2018, Cenzontleis also a finalistforthe Lambda Literary A佤邦rd, the California Book A佤邦rd, the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn A佤邦rd for Gay Poetry, and the Northern California Book A佤邦rd.His first chapbook, DULCE, wonthe Drinking Gourd PoetryPrize published by Northwestern University press.
他的最新回忆录, 土地之子 (哈珀·柯林斯2020), 佤邦s launched to widespread acclaim. Chronicling his years growing up undocumented in the United States, Castillo recounts his experiences 的 a family torn asunder by American immigration policies and his efforts to make a life for himself in a culture actively conspiring to erase his existence. 土地之子 佤邦s an NPR Best Book 的 the Year, a 2020 International Latino Book A佤邦rd Finalist, and Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Book 的 the Year. Latinx author Sandra Cisneros praises Castillo’s gripping memoir as "the document 的 a life without documents, 的 belonging to two countries yet belonging to neither.Hernández Castillo has created his own papers fashioned from memory and poetry.His motherland is马德雷蒂拉他的一生是我们这个时代的一堂历史课。”
马塞洛Hernández卡斯蒂略 佤邦s born in Zacatecas, Mexico and immigratedto the California central valley. 作为一名AB540学生, Castillo holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and 佤邦s the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University 的 Michigan. His work has appeared or been featured in 《纽约时报》,T美国诗人学会,PBS Newshour, People Magazine en Español, The Paris Review, Fusion TV, Buzzfeed, Gulf Coast: A Journal 的 Literature and Fine Arts, 新英格兰评论, Jubilat, Drunken Boat, Indiana Review等等。 His writinghas been adopted to opera through collaboration with composer Reinaldo Moya.
作为一个 translator, Castillo’s work has resulted in 英语 language translations 的 Argentinian modernist poet Jacobo Fijman, and contemporary Mexican Peruvian poet Yaxkin Melchy. Collaborating with American poet C.D. Wright (prior to her death in 2016), Castillo has also co-translated the writings 的 Mexican poet Marcelo Uribe.
值得注意的是, 卡斯蒂略是一位荣誉获得者 的 the Barnes and Nobel Writers for Writersa佤邦rd for his efforts as a founding member 的the groundbreaking Undocupoets campaign, which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country. He has also helped to establish The Undocupoet Fellowship which provides funding to help curb the cost 的 submissions to journals and contests for undocumented writers.
马塞洛Hernández卡斯蒂略 earned hisB.A. from Sacramento State University and 佤邦s the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University 的 Michigan. Agraduate 的 the Canto Mundo Latinx Poetry fellowship, he is a Pushcart nominee and has also received fellowships to attend the Vermont Studio Center and the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop. Currently, he teaches at the Ashland Low-Res MFAProgram and teaches poetry workshops for incarcerated youth in Northern California.
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| 土地的孩子:一本混合回忆录。 《Harper Perennial》,2020年。 ISBN: 978 - 0062825636 | 杜尔塞:诗。 西北大学出版社,2020。 ISBN: 978 - 0810136960 | Cenzontle:诗。BOA Editions, 2018. |