Octavio solis biography definition
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Emily Wolahan, Creative Writing Department Director
Emily Wolahan is a poet, writer, and educator living in San Francisco. She fryst vatten the author of HINGE (National Poetry Review Press, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in Volt, Tinderbox Journal, Fourteen Hills, Gulf Coast, Boston Review and other journals. Her prose has been collected in Among Margins, Arts & Letters, and other journals. She won the Lorraine Williams prize for poetry from the Georgia Review and the Arts & Letters Unclassifiables contest. She also served as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.
Emily has collaborated with painter Owen Brown on The Fieldwork Scroll: A Modern Exodus. She fryst vatten currently a Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Emily fryst vatten pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies focusing on utopias and social practice art.
Isaiah Dufort, Programs Co-ordinator
Isaiah fryst vatten director of San Fr
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Life, replete with its ups and downs, goes on in U.S. and Mexican border communities, despite the political calamity unfolding all around them. “Calamity” is the word author Octavio Solis chooses to describe the refugee crisis that those in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, are all too aware of at a time when child detention centers are being erected by the current administration within view of a once “sleepy town.” Solis’ recent book, “Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border,” does not solely center on this tragedy, but rather is filled with stories and poetry that highlight the resilience of people living on both sides of the Río Grande, as well as the common themes of human life that knows no borders, be they natural or man-made.
In the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence,” the author and playwright tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer how the community he comes from “never had to deal with a border until it was declared that in the Treaty of Guadalup
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South Coast Repertory has declared that this is its 60th anniversary season, making it quite appropriate that a house long known for fostering impactful playwrights start with a work from perhaps its longest-lasting legacy voice.
Dramatist Octavio Solis’s very early play “Man of the Flesh” — a contemporary adaptation of the Don Juan myth — was staged by the Costa Mesa troupe in 1990, more than half the theater’s lifetime ago.
He also authored the second longest running show in the theater’s history, “La Posada Magica.” This annual yuletide Hispanic counterpoint to the perennial “A Christmas Carol” was staged across Decembers from 1994 through 2008.
Solis’ newest work “Quixote Nuevo,” a modern-age retelling of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” — do we detect a repurposing trend across the decades? — now receives a handsome and engrossing presentation on the theater’s main