Born in Havana and brought to the U.S. at the age of nine, Rodríguez has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Rodríguez’s visit is supported by Meridians and by the Program for the Study of Women and Gender.

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Rodríguez’s poems resonate with exile, escape, blendings of cultures, and questions of impossible return—and with the visual and visceral of the now. Her debut collection, Garden of Exile, has been praised for the scope of the poet’s view. Her poems flow and resonate with exile, escape and questions of impossible return, and have been published in Ploughshares and the Kenyon Review.

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For more information about Aleida Rodríguez, please consult the Poetry Center website.

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