Angel Garcia. Courtesy photo
OXNARD — The Carnegie Art Museum “Arcade Poetry Series” will feature Ángel García and Teddy Macker at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 25 at 424 S. C St., Oxnard.
Ángel García has lived in several cities throughout Southern California. He has worked in the field of education for several years as a tutor, residential advisor, instructor, and most recently as a campaigns coordinator for an education reform non-profit. His poems have been included in The American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, Connotation Press, RHINO, Solo Novo, Packinghouse Review, and Miramar. A CantoMundo fellow, Ángel lives in Los Angeles, CA and is currently completing his first collection of poetry.
Teddy Macker teaches a variety of creative writing workshops and literature courses. He is also the faculty adviser for Into the Teeth of the Wind, the poetry journal of UCSB. His own writings—poems, short stories, essays, and translations—appear widely: the Antioch Review, New Letters, the New Ohio Review, Orion, Resurgence(UK), the Southern Humanities Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Sun, various anthologies, and elsewhere. Among his honors is the Reginald S. Tickner Creative Writing Fellowship of the Gilman School in Baltimore. His first book of poetry–This World (foreword by Brother David Steindl-Rast)—appeared in March of 2015 through White Cloud Press. An orchardist, he lives with his wife and two daughters on a small farm in Carpinteria, California.
CAM members free and $ 3 non-members
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