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Murphy Visiting Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo will read and discuss his work on Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required.
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Children of the Land: A Memoir; Cenzontle, which was the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; and Dulce, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Castillo 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 creative writing at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, and the Ashland University low-residency 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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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1600 Washington Ave , Conway, AR, United States, Arkansas 72032
