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FOURTH SATURDAY POETRY READINGS

Fourth Saturdays
Poetry at the Claremont Library


208 Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA
May 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Our May Fourth Saturday's poetry reading features CD Eskilson and William Archila..
  • CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. Their work appears in the Kenyon Review, The Offing, Cincinnati Review, Passages North, among others, and they are the poetry co-editor at Split Lip Magazine. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. CD’s debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is now available from Acre Books. Once, they were in a punk band. Visit CD Eskinson's website >
     
    William Archila is the winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his collection S is For. He is the author of The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger’s Archeology. He was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. His work has appeared in AGNl, APR, Copper Nickle, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, TriQuarterly, and the anthology Latino Poetry: The Library of American Anthology. He has work forthcoming in New Ohio Review. He is an associate editor at Tía Chucha Press. Visit William Archila's website >
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4/26/25 Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont, CA Library info
Fourth Saturday Poetry Readings are free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase. Please follow local COVID protocols as needed and make the choices (masks, distancing, etc.) that make you feel most comfortable.

Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library is a free monthly poetry reading series organized by local poets Lucia Galloway Dick, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Genevieve Kaplan, and George Hammons.
https://www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry

Also, visit us at Poets & Poetry in Claremont
https://www.facebook.com/groups/193631171279213


Interested in being a reader for Fourth Saturdays?
​Please apply at https://form.jotform.com/81575268800158 

This series is supported by the Friends of the Claremont Library. 

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