Guthrie Theater
Pohlad Lobby, Level 9
818 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
Free and open to the public.
Join us at the Guthrie Theater to celebrate Chris Santiago, winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, and his debut collection of poems, Tula. The evening will feature a reception, reading, and conversation between Chris and contest judge A. Van Jordan. Tula is Santiago’s debut collection of poems and is about language, family, and the immigrant experience, announces the arrival of a major new literary talent. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen is among the writers singing the book’s praises: “Chris Santiago’s poems encourage us to see English the way an immigrant does—as something different, to be broken and remade. This is a book that both transports us and transforms us.”
Chris Santiago
Chris Santiago is the author of Tula, winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by A. Van Jordan. He teaches literature, sound culture, and creative writing at the University of St. Thomas.
Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for “poem.” Inspired by the experiences of the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents, the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry paints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise.