Poet Carolina Rivera Escamilla discusses "In a Corner of Your Country"

Author and educator Carolina Rivera Escamilla presents “In the Limbo of the Word of No Return”, a discussion of her new collection of poems, In a Corner of Your Country, along with the Spanish edition, En Una Esquina de tu Pais, on Saturday September 21st at 11:00 a.m. in the Edendale Library community room. The result of almost twenty years of work, much of this poetry is intentionally written for theatrical performance. As Escamilla says, "In these poems, I explore the feeling of space and time, the burden of memory in the neither here nor there, as linked to displacement, exile, and emigration, with women and children as protagonists.”

Carolina Rivera Escamilla is a writer, actor, and documentarian based in Los Angeles, California. Born in El Salvador, she studied theater arts and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and studies in Spanish Literature. She went into exile in Canada in the 1980s. She is a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. Her first book of short stories, titled ...after..., was published in 2015 (Worlds Stage Press). She is also the director, screenwriter, and producer of the documentary "Manlio Argueta, Poets, and Volcanoes". Her publications include Collateral Damage, Women Who Write About War Anthology, University of Virginia Press, Migrant Anthology, Somewhere We Are Humans, Harper Collins Press, The Bomb Literary Magazine, and Altadena Poetry Review Anthology, Golden Foothills Press, among others. 

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