Poet Javier Zamora will discuss home, identity, and the immigrant experience—the focus of his acclaimed 2022 memoir Solito (Hogarth)—at Boston College on February 26 in Gasson 100 at 7 p.m. At age nine, Zamora embarked on a nine-week journey from his native El Salvador to the United States. He traveled unaccompanied by boat, bus, and foot along with other migrants and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety.  Solito was awarded the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography and named a winner of the American Library Association Alex Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Zamora’s debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores his experience emigrating from Central America, leaving behind his beloved grandmother to join parents he barely remembered. He has been published in Granta, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry, the New Republic, the New York Times, and Poetry, among other publications. Zamora’s lecture is presented by the BC Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series and Boston College Romance Languages and Literatures Department. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.