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Armin Tolentino

Official Website of the Author
and Clark County Poet Laureate

We Meant to Bring it Home Alive

Alternating Current Press

NOW AVAILABLE

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Brimming with imagination and melody. A spooky deep -dive through the intersections of myth, spirituality, and Americana.

Deb Jannerson

Author of Thanks for Nothing

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The mesmerizing wonder captured in Tolentino's poems evokes both confrontation and longing. Through the incredible, he pulls out some of the rawest emotions of human existance: awe, isolation, ache.

Do Nguyen Mai

Author of Ghosts Still Walking

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[His] poems reach across time and space, Biblical in scope, longing, and wonder. These poems ask us to consider how we map a way back to each other and to the unknown.

Ruth Awad

Author of Set to Music a Wildfire

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BIO

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ARMIN TOLENTINO earned his MFA at Rutgers University in Newark. He is the author of We Meant to Bring It Home Alive(Alternating Current Press, 2019), and his poetry has appeared in Hyphen Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, The Raven Chronicles, and elsewhere.

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Originally from Lincoln Park, New Jersey, he now lives in Vancouver, Washington with his wife and her three chinchillas. He's an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient, an avid (albeit usually unsuccessful) fisherman, and hopes one day to earn a Guiness Record for World's Loudest Clap.

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  • Thu 30 Mar
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    Mar 30, 7:00 PM
    Bush Barn Art Center, 600 Mission St SE, Salem, OR 97302, USA
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  • Sat 15 Apr
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    Apr 15, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
    Cascades Presbyterian Church, 9503 NE 86th St, Vancouver, WA 98662, USA
    Come join the Seedlings Writing Workshop facilitated by Armin Tolentino, Poet Laureate of Clark County, where we’ll generate brand new writing in community with each other. Space is limited; please RSVP.
  • Sat 13 May
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    May 13, 10:00 AM – May 14, 12:00 PM
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    Join this virtual workshop where we'll try on various poetry approaches to start from a blank page to a first draft. Register at https://www.thewritersguild.org/events/blank-to-draft-making-poems-from-scratch-with-armin-tolentino
  • Sat 17 Jun
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    Jun 17, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Cascades Presbyterian Church, 9503 NE 86th St, Vancouver, WA 98662, USA
    Come join the Seedlings Writing Workshop facilitated by Armin Tolentino, Poet Laureate of Clark County, where we’ll generate brand new writing in community with each other. Space is limited; please RSVP.
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