December 17, 2020
Raúl Sánchez is the City of Redmond poet laureate for 2019–2021. He teaches poetry in Spanish at Evergreen High School through the Seattle Arts and Lectures (WITS) program, also at Denny International Middle School through the Jack Straw Educational Project, and volunteers for Pongo Teen Writing at the Juvenile Detention Center. Currently he is translating a book by Ellen Ziegler for the Museum of Antique Mexican Toys. His poetry book, All Our Brown-Skinned Angels, was published by MoonPath Press in 2012. Please visit Raúl’s website.
Sharon Elliott is a Seattle author. She has been a writer and poet activist for several decades, featuring in poetry readings in the San Francisco Bay area and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been published in several anthologies and in her chapbook, Jaguar Unfinished. Her poem “Border Crossing” appears in Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, edited by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodriguez.
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This event is via Zoom:
SoulFood Poetry Night featuring Raúl Sánchez and Sharon Elliott
Time: Dec 17, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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