Event Date
Event Date
Location
International House Davis, 10 College Park, Davis, CA
Join us for a book release party and reading with Puerto Rico born, Nuyorican raised, and Morocco based poet Victor Hernández Cruz. This event celebrates Cruz’s new book Guayacán (Ishmael Reed Publishing, 2022), a botanical historical search for the trees that once lined his Puerto Rican horizon and the music that shaped his life. The poems travel across languages, sounds, and perceptions; they escape ethnic confinement into the possibilities of international cultural fusion across the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas.
On Guayacán: “Improvisational, inspirational, sensational, international. Poetry delicious to the ears, infinitely pleasurable to pronounce.” -Sandra Cisneros, award winning poet and writer
Cruz will be introduced by long time family friends, author and educator Herb Kohl and his daughter Erica Kohl-Arenas of Imagining America. Come prepared to enjoy good company, food and drink, and the renowned poetry of Victor Hernández Cruz.
Please RSVP for planning purposes: bit.ly/3JsnAm1
On Guayacán: “Improvisational, inspirational, sensational, international. Poetry delicious to the ears, infinitely pleasurable to pronounce.” -Sandra Cisneros, award winning poet and writer
Cruz will be introduced by long time family friends, author and educator Herb Kohl and his daughter Erica Kohl-Arenas of Imagining America. Come prepared to enjoy good company, food and drink, and the renowned poetry of Victor Hernández Cruz.
Please RSVP for planning purposes: bit.ly/3JsnAm1
For more information please contact srmaroney@ucdavis.edu
Event sponsored by This Imagining America event is generously co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement, and UC Davis Global Affairs.