Poet Laureate visits Clark

Claudia Castro Luna

The Clark College Columbia Writers Series continues its 2018-2019 season with noted poet Claudia Castro Luna. This event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Thursday, January 31, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Gaiser Hall room 213 on Clark College’s main campus.

Claudia Castro Lunais the Washington State Poet Laureate. She served
as Seattle’s Civic
Poet from 2015-2017 and is the author of the Pushcart-nominated Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press)
and This City, (Floating Bridge Press) and the creator of the
acclaimed Seattle Poetic Grid. Born
in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. She has a Master of Arts
degree in Urban Planning, a teaching certificate, and a Master of Fine Arts in
poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, La Bloga,
Dialogo and Psychological Perspectives,among others. Her non-fiction work can
be read in several anthologies, among them This Is The Place: Women
Writing About Home, (Seal Press). Castro Luna is currently working on
a memoir, Like Water to Drink, about
her experience escaping the civil war in El Salvador. Living in English and
Spanish, she writes and teaches in Seattle. Since 2009, she
maintains Cipota bajo la Luna, a blog with reflections,
writing, and reviews.

The Columbia
Writers Series was launched at Clark College in 1988, bringing local, national
and international authors to the college and the region. This year’s lineup of authors will continue with:

Winter

  • February 2019 (date TBA): Elizabeth McCracken, award-winning
    fiction writer.

Spring

  • May 20, 2019: Alexis Madrigal, author, journalist, and staff
    writer at The Atlantic.
  • May 21, 2019: Gina Oschner, award-winning author and Clark
    alumna
  • May 22, 2019: Release of Phoenix,
    Clark College’s award-winning arts and literary journal

Information
about the Columbia Writers Series is available at www.clark.edu/cc/cws.

This
event is held on Clark College’s main campus at 1933 Ft. Vancouver Way. Directions
and maps are available online. Individuals
who need accommodation due to a disability in order to fully participate in
this event should contact Clark College’s Disability Support Services (DSS) Office
at 360-992-2314 or 360-991-0901 (VP). The DSS office is located in room 013 in
Clark’s Penguin Union Building.