Poetry off the Shelf: Ana Castillo, Mauricio Kilwein-Guevara & Erika L. Sánchez

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Celebrated poet, novelist, activist, translator and scholar Ana Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. Her most recent poetry collection is Watercolor Women/Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse (2005). Castillo's many honors include a Carl Sandburg Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature by Latina 50 Plus.

Poet, playwright, and actor Mauricio Kilwein Guevara was born in Belencito, Colombia, and raised in Pittsburgh. His poetry collections include POEMA (2009); Autobiography of So-and-so: Poems in Prose (2001), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize; and Postmortem (1994), nominated for the National Book Award.

Erika L. Sánchez was born and raised in Cicero, IL, and lives in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion (forthcoming, Graywolf, 2017) and the young adult novel Brown Girl Problems (forthcoming, Knopf, 2017). She is a CantoMundo fellow, a 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow, and winner of the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize.

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