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Third Thursdays at Willow Glen Library feat. Rachelle Escamilla!
May 21, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Free
Featured reader: Rachelle Escamilla!
Open mic to follow.
Free and open to the public with Eventbrite registration, tix booth closes at 6:30pm on 5/21.
Rachelle Escamilla is the descendant of campesinos and cannery workers from San Benito County, California. Her first book, “Imaginary Animal”, won the 2014 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry and is being adapted into an off Broadway play in New York with Director Katherine Wilkinson. Her second collection of poetry “me drawing a picture of me[n]” was published in 2019 (Willow Publishing). Escamilla is the producer and host of the longest running poetry radio show in the United States, Out of Our Minds, and the founder of the Poets & Writers Coalition at San Jose State University.