Sandra M. Castillo
Sandra M. Castillo is a poet and South Florida resident. She was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated on one of the last of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Freedom Flights. Castillo's family's number for the Freedom Flights was 160,633. Sandra Castillo is not only a poet, but also a professor at Miami Dade College and she teaches in the History Department.She attended Florida State University, receiving both a Bachelor's and ultimately master's degree in Creative Writing.
:[Castillo has said that she is haunted by all things Cuban and that much of what she remembers about her Cuban childhood, those eight years of her life, linger in her memory like photographs, like ghosts. Her Tio Berto, to whom she has made repeated references, was an amateur photographer whose photographs documented not only her family's past but a Cuban life. Such photographs captivated her and "formed the basis of [her] aesthetic."] She writes about loss, history, gender, language and explores issues of memory. Her work "depicts contradictory worlds, the memory of a homeland and memory politics while examining the ordinary reality of exile. Her poetry is inspired by her childhood experiences, photographs, stories told by her family, arrests, and the streets and lives left behind in Cuba. She is inspired by poets like Jack Kerouac and the Chilean poet, Omar Lara. Similarly, her and Jack Kerouac "are fascinated by the history of place", and she was inspired by his attempt to "shape and define his world through his adopted language." Omar Lara's "ability to capture time and place at a critical time" inspired her to write a poem called, photograph. Provided by Wikipedia
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8by Sandra Castillo-Santis, Kelly Romero-Acosta, Marta Sahagún-Navarro, Andrea del Carmen Sánchez-VergaraGet full text
Published 2017-06-01
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11by Jana Kludas, Mikko Arvas, Sandra Castillo, Tiina Pakula, Merja Oja, Céline Brouard, Jussi Jäntti, Merja Penttilä, Juho RousuGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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12by Magdalena de J. Rostro-Alanis, Juan Báez-González, Cynthia Torres-Alvarez, Roberto Parra-Saldívar, José Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Sandra CastilloGet full text
Published 2019-05-01
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13by Benjamin Valdez-Salas, Ernesto Beltrán-Partida, Sandra Castillo-Uribe, Mario Curiel-Álvarez, Roumen Zlatev, Margarita Stoytcheva, Gisela Montero-Alpírez, Lidia Vargas-OsunaGet full text
Published 2017-05-01
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14by Oliver Yun, M Angeles Lima, Tom Ellman, Wilma Chambi, Sandra Castillo, Laurence Flevaud, Paul Roddy, Fernando Parreño, Pedro Albajar Viñas, Pedro Pablo PalmaGet full text
Published 2009-07-01
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15by Cynthia Torres-Alvarez, Sandra Castillo, Eduardo Sánchez-García, Carlos Aguilera González, Sergio Arturo Galindo-Rodríguez, José A. Gabaldón-Hernández, Juan G. Báez-GonzálezGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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16by Sandra Castillo, Alexis Rodríguez, Minerva Bautista-Villarreal, Nallely García-Solano, Claudia Gallardo-Rivera, Juan G. Báez-González, Eduardo Sánchez-García, Karla G. García-AlanisGet full text
Published 2021-04-01
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17by Kristoffer Krogerus, Kristoffer Krogerus, Frederico Magalhães, Frederico Magalhães, Sandra Castillo, Gopal Peddinti, Virve Vidgren, Matteo De Chiara, Jia-Xing Yue, Gianni Liti, Brian Gibson, Brian GibsonGet full text
Published 2021-09-01
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19by Kirsi H Pietiläinen, Tomasz Róg, Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso, Sam Virtue, Peddinti Gopalacharyulu, Jing Tang, Sergio Rodriguez-Cuenca, Arkadiusz Maciejewski, Jussi Naukkarinen, Anna-Liisa Ruskeepää, Perttu S Niemelä, Laxman Yetukuri, Chong Yew Tan, Vidya Velagapudi, Sandra Castillo, Heli Nygren, Tuulia Hyötyläinen, Aila Rissanen, Jaakko Kaprio, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Ilpo Vattulainen, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Matej OrešičGet full text
Published 2011-06-01
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