Sasha Pimentel "For Want of Water" at the San Francisco Public Library
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2017-10-28

Sasha Pimentel reads from and discusses her new collection, For Want of Water & Other Poems. The book is a National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a forthcoming foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo. Born in Manila and raised in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, Sasha Pimentel is a Filipina poet and author of Insides She Swallowed (West End Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 American Book Award. She was a finalist for the 2015 Rome Prize in Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters) and teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso. Check out more events and classes at the library online: www.SFPL.org/Events