JAVIER ZAMORA
in conversation with Alexis Madrigal
Co-Presented with 826 Valencia
Thursday, May 18, 2023
7:30pm Pacific Time
Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater
This event appears in the series
On Art & Politics
“It’s hard to reconcile the fact that [Solito] hasn’t always been with us. How can something so essential and fundamental to the American story not already be part of our canon?”—San Francisco Chronicle
When Javier Zamora was one year old, his father fled El Salvador’s United States-funded Salvadoran Civil War. His mother followed in 1995, leaving the five-year-old Zamora with his grandparents until he migrated to the U.S. on his own at age nine. In his debut memoir, Solito, Zamora retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert before reuniting with his parents in California. A poet and activist, he is a co-founder of Undocupoets, an organization that has succeeded in lifting citizenship requirements from major poetry prizes.
City Arts & Lectures’ Covid protocol follows San Francisco Department of Public Health guidelines and/or requirements of the featured guests. At this time, masks are encouraged but not required. Policy subject to change.
