When There Were No Borders: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music

Join us on the great lawn next to Redmond City Hall, for When There Were No Borders, a public reading and the title of City of Redmond’s Poet Laureate, Raúl Sánchez’s second book of poetry. This will also be a celebration of Raul’s two-year tenure with the City of Redmond and will include live music by Trío Guadalevín and artist Milvia Pacheco.

Raúl Sánchez is an author and mentor of bilingual poetry. His cultural background allows him to use passages from his early life in México City and apply the lessons learned in his work. Mentoring in the schools has been essential to his poetic growth because as he put it “The youth see the world differently than him,” therefore he learns from their outlook. Raúl is an avid spiral thinker, driving in a straight line then suddenly turning left or right, but never loosing the reader in the detour. Raúl is a self-taught poet who keeps on writing, teaching, helping the youth, and reading in public, allowing his voice to carry the words like dandelion fuzzies into the ears of those who listen.