Hilary Cruz Mejia, a 19-year old Latinx immigrant from Puerto de Iztapa, Guatemala, a first-generation college student, and a queer poet, who sometimes is unable to find meaning in logical language, though poetry with its rhythms and alliterations has been a healing process through her transition in the U.S. While she graduated from Skyline College in 2020 she has continued as president of the student Poetry Club.
On Thursday, March 18 at 4pm Skyline College Library invites you to a virtual Poetry Corner reading and discussion on the theme of ecofeminism. Register here today! tinyurl.com/PoetryCornerEWEE
Dr. Persis Karim holds the Neda Nobari Endowed Chair and is the director of the newly-established Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University. She is also a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her groundbreaking and critical work on literature and culture of the Iranian diaspora, as well as her role in collecting and editing three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature, have earned her recognition and respect in several fields including literary, diaspora and Iranian studies. http://persiskarim.com/dev/
Maya Khosla is a wildlife biologist, filmmaker and writer. The former Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (2018 – 2020), her collection of poems, All the Fires of Wind and Light, was published in 2019. Her work takes her to wilderness areas, to the page and to the screen. She has documented forests, fire scientists and firefighters talking about ways to be wise about wildfire. Maya’s work has taken her across coastal India, Kenya, and the United States. https://creekshade.wixsite.com/mayakhosla
Kim Shuck is a Tsalagi (Cherokee)/Euro-American poet, author, weaver, and beadwork artist born in San Francisco, California. She belongs to the Northern California Cherokee diaspora and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In 2017, Mayor Ed Lee named Shuck as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Other awards include a PEN Oakland Censorship Award, National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, KQED Local Hero Award, American Indian Heritage Month, Mentor of the Year Award from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, Native Writers of the Americas First Book, Diane Decorah Award, and a Mary Tallmountain Award. Her most recent work is Whose Water: Poems, released by Mammoth Publications in 2020. https://kimshuck.com/
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