CCAI Books and Writers Series: Indelicate Angels featured April 8
As part of National Poetry Month, the Capital City Arts Initiative invites you to attend a reading and writing workshop with poet and writer Ismael García Santillanes at the BRIC, 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City.
The writing workshop will take place Tuesday, April 8 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The reading follows immediately at 5:30 p.m.
The free events are part of CCAI’s Books and Writers series co-sponsored with the Carson City Library. CCAI and the Library enthusiastically invite all readers and writers to attend the workshop and reading.
Mr. Santillanes recently finished a book of poetry, Indelicate Angels, being published by the University of Nevada, Reno’s Black Rock Press. The release date is April 2014.
Mr. Santillanes now lives back in the small, agricultural town, Mecca, Calif., where he spent many of his formative years. This is where he learned to look upon seemingly lifeless land with wonderment. Yet life is a matter of degrees, like seed catching in the split bark of dried up mesquite, or sweat dripped onto the skin of that seed. This is the xeric mind of the desert, where not much is needed to fulfill the promise of breath and brevity. And so, he writes always from the heart desert sand carved.
Ismael Santillanes has had his work published in Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone, Collages & Bricolages in Pennsylvania, Goatfoot Press in Oregon, and in the Talking River Review, Idaho among others. Sierra Arts Foundation awarded him a Literary Fellowship Grant in 2008. He earned an AAS from WNC in 2007 and is currently attending Grand Canyon University studying for a Psychology degree.
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets throughout the United States band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
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