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CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Benjamin Gucciardi with Eduardo C. Corral

Benjamin Gucciardi celebrates his poetry collection "West Portal" published by University of Utah Press Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles—the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams’s assertion that “the local is the only thing that is universal,” West Portal investigates the Bay Area’s urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. To learn more about "West Portal" click this link: https://citylights.com/poetry/west-po... Benjamin Gucciardi is the author of the chapbook "I Ask My Sister’s Ghost" (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New Ohio Review, Orion Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, and other journals. He has received BOOTH‘s Prize for Unexpected Literature, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate, the Trifecta Poetry Prize from Iron Horse Literary Review and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, as well as awards and fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Jentel Foundation, PLAYA, and Artsmith. He also works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland, California, through Soccer Without Borders, an organization he founded in 2006. Eduardo C. Corral’s debut collection of poetry, "Slow Lightning" (2012), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. His second collection is "Guillotine" (2020). Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. This event was originally broadcast in the Zoom platform on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 and was hosted by City Lights' Peter Maravelis. Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation.