FOURTH SATURDAY POETRY READINGS

Fourth Saturdays
Poetry at the Claremont Library

208 Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA
April 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Information about our May 24, 2025, poetry reading is coming soon!

Our April Fourth Saturday's poetry reading featured Chris Santiago and Romaine Washington.

• Chris Santiago is a 2025 NEA Poetry Fellow and the author of Small Wars Manual and Tula, winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Nation, POETRY Magazine, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, and American Public Media’s The Slowdown. A past fellow of the McKnight Foundation, the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, and Kundiman, he received his PhD from USC and teaches at CalArts. Chris discussed "How this son of immigrants reimagined his parents' homeland" on PBS News. He lives in Pasadena with his wife and two sons.
• Romaine Washington is an Inland Empire native and a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize poet whose work has also been nominated for Best of the Net. She is the editor of These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology (Inlandia Institute), and the literary journal Cholla Needles, issues 88 and 101. Washington is the author of two poetry books, Purgatory Has an Address (Bamboo Dart Press) and Sirens in Her Belly (Jamii Publishing). Her writing has been widely anthologized, and she is a regular contributor to Inlandia Literary Journeys. Washington has presented her poetry in many programs, including Inside Socal CBS2/KCSL9, NPR, and KPFK. She has been an educator for over twenty years and is currently curating and editing work for a Black Mental Health anthology. Visit her website at: www.romainewashington.com.

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.
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Also, visit us at Poets & Poetry in Claremont
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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.