Book reading and signing:  Sunday, August 16 from 2-4 pm

"A poet of the heart and head, of the personal and public, at times William Archila's poignant poems make me
hear and feel an echo of Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo,"  -- Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize winner

William Archila was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, and earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have been published in The Georgia Review, AGNl, Poetry International, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, and Portland Review among others. In his first book The Art of Exile Archila asks readers to engage with a subject seldom explored in American poetry: the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s and its impact on Central American immigrants who now claim this country as home.