Bay Area Poet Javier Zamora and others will read as part of Marin Poetry Center’s popular Third Thursday speaker series. The event will be emceed by Marin County Poet Laureate CB Follett, a fierce champion of poetry for poets and audiences of all ages in Marin County, and will be followed, for the first time in the history of this series, by an OPEN MIKE limited to poets under the age of thirty.
Javier Jose Zamora lived in El Salvador with his grandparents until he was nine years old when he migrated across the North American continent to rejoin his parents in this country. Currently an Honors Student majoring in Latin American History at UC Berkeley, Javier began writing poetry during his senior year of high school. Last summer, Javier was awarded fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf, Napa Valley and Squaw Valley Writer's Conferences. His chapbook, NINE IMMIGRANT YEARS, won the 2010 Inaugural Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Contest and will be released this year, and a full length book, MI TIERRA, was a finalist for the 2009 Violet Reed Hass Book Award.
