Sunset Poets gather for reading by featured poet William Archila from his new book. Here is a short biography of Archila:
William Archila was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador in 1968. At the age of twelve, he fled a civil war that tore his country apart and immigrated to the United States in 1980. He eventually became an English teacher and earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Agni, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Georgia Review, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry International and Puerto del Sol among others.
And a review of The Art of Exile:
"The Art of Exile is what William Archila works to perfect in this first books of poems about El Savador, a country “small as a paper cut.” Archila breathes life into the boys and men left behind who have died in the dirt roads and stubble fields of his lost homeland as he builds the language of a new life in the north, a language steeped in jazz and blood, tobacco and chalk, concrete and dust. In unrelenting detail, he tells the stories of lives discarded, buried, and forgotten. History, poverty, family and faith move these poems into mysterious territories where the living speak to the dead and the dead speak back."
- Dorianne Laux
Admission: FREE
Location:
The Flying Bridge
1105 North Coast Highway
Oceanside, CA 92054
For more information, please visit: sunsetpoets.org
or
Call: (760) 758-2410
William Archila was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador in 1968. At the age of twelve, he fled a civil war that tore his country apart and immigrated to the United States in 1980. He eventually became an English teacher and earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Agni, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Georgia Review, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry International and Puerto del Sol among others.
And a review of The Art of Exile:
"The Art of Exile is what William Archila works to perfect in this first books of poems about El Savador, a country “small as a paper cut.” Archila breathes life into the boys and men left behind who have died in the dirt roads and stubble fields of his lost homeland as he builds the language of a new life in the north, a language steeped in jazz and blood, tobacco and chalk, concrete and dust. In unrelenting detail, he tells the stories of lives discarded, buried, and forgotten. History, poverty, family and faith move these poems into mysterious territories where the living speak to the dead and the dead speak back."
- Dorianne Laux
Admission: FREE
Location:
The Flying Bridge
1105 North Coast Highway
Oceanside, CA 92054
For more information, please visit: sunsetpoets.org
or
Call: (760) 758-2410
