Dreaming America: A Reading for Immigrants in Detention Centers

Please join Lake County Poet Laureate Georgina Marie and Lake County Community Advocate Gillian Parrillo on Saturday July 18th, 2020 for Dreaming America: A Reading for Immigrants in Detention Centers.

This event is to raise awareness of adult and youth immigrants in detention centers in the United States. Readings will include excerpts from the book Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-security Detention, original work from featured poets, and stories from local immigrants.

The reading will also feature the editor of Dreaming America himself, Seth Michelson, and a variety of poets and readers including poet Alethea Eason of New Mexico, City of Madison, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Angela Trudell Vasquez, Elise Stuart of New Mexico, poet Erin Rodoni of Marin County, beloved Studebakers owner Itzia Rico, poet Martina Gallegos, Pamela Williams of New Mexico, poet Pei Ja Anderson of San Francisco, Seattle poet and City of Redmond, Washington Poet Laureate Raúl Sanchez, and Saro Deacon.

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Article by Georgina Marie

Georgina Marie is a Lakeport poet and the newly appointed Lake County Poet Laureate for 2020-2022. She is involved in the literary community as a writer, supporter of writers, and organizer and participant of poetry events. She has participated in many readings within Lake County and surrounding counties, has served as co-editor for the Middletown Art Center’s RESILIENCE and RESTORE chapbook projects, and is an assistant poetry editor for Rivet Journal, an online literary journal from Red Bridge Press. As part of the Broken Nose Collective, an annual chapbook exchange, she created her first poetry chapbook, Finding the Roots of Water, in 2018 and her second chapbook, Tree Speak, in 2019.