

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Fourth Saturdays Poetry: Chris Santiago & Romaine Washington 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for our April poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library.

Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Chris Santiago &amp; Romaine Washington
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 2:00 pm

All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

Chris Santiago is a 2025 NEA Poetry Fellow and the author of Small Wars Manual and Tula, winner of the Lindquist &amp; Vennum Prize and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Nation, POETRY Magazine, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, and American Public Media’s The Slowdown. A past fellow of the McKnight Foundation, the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, and Kundiman, he received his PhD from USC and teaches at CalArts. He lives in Pasadena with his wife and two sons.

Romaine Washington is an Inland empire native and a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize poet whose work has also been nominated for Best of the Net. She is the editor of These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology (Inlandia Institute), and the literary journal Cholla Needles, issues 88 and 101. Washington is the author of two poetry books, Purgatory Has an Address (Bamboo Dart Press) and Sirens in Her Belly (Jamii Publishing). Her writing has been widely anthologized, and she is a regular contributor to Inlandia Literary Journeys. Washington has presented her poetry in many programs, including Inside Socal CBS2/KCSL9, NPR, and KPFK. She has been an educator for over twenty years and is currently curating and editing work for a Black Mental Health anthology. Visit her website at: www.romainewashington.com.


Please note that Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.

Learn more about the Claremont Helen Renwick Library at https://www.claremontlibrary.org/
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, mental-health
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Claremont
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 208 N Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 02:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 208 N Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Fourth Saturdays:  Poetry at the Claremont Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, health-wellness, mental-health
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