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Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,’ an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape and from multiple lenses of womanhood.
Southern California Review, and the anthology
This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017). Bacote’s talk, titled “Against Erasure: Reclaiming Our Stories,” will be March 16 at 6 p.m. via ZOOM/YouTube. The event is free and open to the public.
In 2018,
Ploughshares published her essay, “The Other America,” about police brutality and the failure of community policing in New Haven, Connecticut. Her current book project chronicles the lasting impact of the illegal drug trade on her family and community.
The WSU Visiting Writers Series brings noted poets and writers of fiction and nonfiction to campus for creative readings, class visits, workshops, and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines. Bacote’s visit is co-sponsored by WSU Pullman English Department, WSU Pullman College of Arts and Sciences, WSU Vancouver Office of Equity and Diversity, WSU Vancouver Library, WSU Vancouver Office of Academic Affairs, and W
Claudia Castro Luna is
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. She is also a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna, a 2014 Jack Straw fellow, the recipient of a King County 4Culture grant and an individual artist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. She has an MA in Urban Planning, a teaching certificate and an MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest,
Claudia Castro Luna is
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. She is also a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna, a 2014 Jack Straw fellow, the recipient of a King County 4Culture grant and an individual artist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. She has an MA in Urban Planning, a teaching certificate and an MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest,