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CCC to host Slam Poet Joaquin Zihuatanejo
Clinton Community College will welcome Joaquin Zihuatanejo to campus on Thursday, October 6. A poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher, Zihuatenejo was born and raised in the barrio of East Dallas. He strives to capture the duality of the Chicano culture and will bring that to Composition, Speech, News Writing, and Children’s Literature classes throughout the day.
Joaquin has been called, “one of the most dynamic and passionate performance poets in the country, melding equal parts comedy, poetry, and dramatic monologue into a crowd-pleasing display of verbal fireworks… always thrilling, Joaquin’s hilariously manic presentation is full of compassion and nuance, never sacrificing substance for style, leading many to call him poetry slam’s answer to John Leguizamo.”
Zihuatanejo is a National Poetry Slam Finalist, Grand Slam Spoken Word Champion, and HBO Def Poet. For seven years he was an award-winning English and creative writing public high school teacher inspiring a collection of poems from the classroom entitled Stand Up and Be Heard.
For more information, contact Mardell Mommsen at 563-244-7001.